Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Rama, Allah and God are to me convertible terms.
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You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them.
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Purification is never for the selfishly idle, it accrues only to the selflessly industrious.
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That nation is great which rests its head upon death as its pillow.
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I do not want India to rise on the ruin of other nations.
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Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.
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To me Truth is God and there is no way to find Truth except the way of nonviolence.
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In the dictionary of Satyagraha, there is no enemy.
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My mother would tell me that the shortest cut to purification after the unholy touch was to cancel the touch by touching any Mussalman passing by.
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Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness.
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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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I had learnt at the onset not to carry on public work with borrowed money.
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It is a travesty of true religion to consider one's own religion as superior and other's as inferior.
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When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to Bhagavad-gita and find a verse to comfort me; and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow. Those who meditate on the Gita will derive fresh joy and new meanings from it every day.
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Roving dogs do not indicate the civilisation or compassion of the society. They betray on the country the ignorance and lethargy of its members.
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The goal ever recedes from us. The greater the progress the greater the recognition of our unworthiness. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.
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My Swaraj will be not be a result of murder of others but a voluntary act of continuous self-sacrifice.
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Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two. What is obtained by love is retained for all time. What is obtained by hatred proves a burden in reality for it increases hatred." - by Mohandas K. Gandhi -
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How can I make difference so that I may bring peace to this world that I love and cherish so much? A name flickers instantly in my mind.
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Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.
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Non-cooperation in itself is unnatural, vicious and sinful.
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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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You cannot cure a lesser evil by a greater evil.
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Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. That strength may be physical or of the heart or, if we do not fight shy of the word, of the spirit. Strength of the heart connotes soul-force. Let it be remembered that physical force is transitory, even as the body is transitory. But the power of spirit is permanent even as the spirit is everlasting.