Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Mr. Gandhi, you have been working fifteen hours a day for fifty years. Don't you think you should take a vacation?" Gandhi smiled and replied, "I am always on vacation.
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The most practical, the most dignified way of going on in the world is to take people at their word, when you have no positive reason to the contrary.
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Rama, Allah and God are to me convertible terms.
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Our peaceful non – co – operation must be constructive, non-destructive. Poison should not emerge from the throes of love.
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The cottage industry of India had to perish in order that Lancashire might flourish.
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The sacred thread and the tuft of hair without a pure heart and a spirit of toleration do not make a Hindu.
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While everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates.... For I can see in the midst of death, life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.
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I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people.
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A man like me cannot but believe that this earthquake is a divine chastisement sent by God for our sins.
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Hinduism with its message of ahimsa is to me the most glorious religion in the world.
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Truth is self-evident, nonviolence is its maturest fruit. It is contained in truth, but is not self-evident.
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He who does not see God in the next person he meets need look no further.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. Without interrelation with society he cannot realize his oneness with the universe or suppress his egotism. His social interdependence enables him to test his faith and to prove himself on the touchstone of reality.
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The world cannot be successfully fooled for all time.
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My attitude towards the British is one of utter friendliness and respect.
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What I call the law of satyagraha is to be deduced from an appreciation of duties and rights flowing therefrom.
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My creed of nonviolence does not favour the punishment of thieves and dacoits and even murderers.
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Any action that is dictated by fear or by coercion of any kind ceases to be moral.
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I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence.
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Shraddha means self-confidence and self-confidence means faith in God.
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There is no better way of industrializing the villages of India than the spinning wheel.
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It is necessary first to purify the drunken and dissolute worshippers in charge of some of these temples.
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Love can never express itself by imposing sufferings on others. It can only express itself by self-suffering, by self-purification.
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In the midst of darkness, light persists.