Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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A courageous man prefers death to the surrender of self-respect.
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Prayer is no mere exercise of words or of the ears, it is no mere repetition of empty formula.
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Be congruent, be authentic, be your true self.
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To say that God permits evil in the world may not be pleasing to the ear. But if He is held responsible for the good, it follows that He has to be responsible for the evil too.
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You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them.
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I call myself a labourer because I take pride in calling myself a spinner, weaver, farmer and scavenger.
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If as a member of a slave nation I could deliver the suppressed classes from their slavery without freeing myself from my own, I would do so today. But it is an impossible task.
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It amazes me to find an intelligent person who fights against something which he does not at all believe exists.
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It is not part of religion to breed buffaloes or, for that matter, cows.
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If the lambs of the world had been willingly led, they would have long ago saved themselves from the butcher's knife.
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The way of peace is the way of truth. Truthfulness is even more important than peacefulness.
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Never make a promise in haste.
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A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can certainly take to physical labour.
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Jealousy does not wait for reasons.
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Like the bee gathering honey from the different flowers, the wise person accepts the essence of the different scriptures and sees only the good in all religions.
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In our progress towards the goal, we ever see more and more enchanting scenery.
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I do regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism are.
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Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.
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I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.
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Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help.
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The avowed policy of non-cooperation has been not to make political use of the disputes between labour and capital.
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No matter how explicit the pledge, people will turn and twist the text to suit their own purpose.
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Means to be means must always be within our reach, and so ahimsa is our supreme duty.
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Good travels at a snail's pace. Those who want to do good are not selfish, they are not in a hurry, they know that to impregnate people with good requires a long time.