Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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Everyone holds a piece of the truth.
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No labour is too mean for one who wants to earn an honest penny.
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Those who know how to think need no teachers.
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All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.
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The way of peace is the way of truth. Truthfulness is even more important than peacefulness.
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Hindu-Muslim unity, khaddar and removal of untouchability are to me the foundation of Swaraj.
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The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.
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Moral result can only be produced by moral restraints.
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He who does not see God in the next person he meets need look no further.
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Cow preservation is an article of faith in Hinduism.
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Remember that there is always a limit to self-indulgence but none to self-restraint, and let us daily progress in that direction.
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Love in the sense of ahimsa has only a limited number of votaries in the world.
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It is not a mistake to commit a mistake, for no one commits a mistake knowing it to be one. But it is a mistake not to correct the mistake after knowing it to be one. If you are afraid of committing a mistake, you are afraid of doing anything at all. You will correct your mistakes whenever you find them.
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The author of the Mahabharata has not established the necessity of physical warfare; on the contrary he has proved its futility.
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My religion enables me, obliges me to imbibe all that is good in all the great religions of the earth.
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I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace.
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Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be.
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The attainment of national independence is to me a search for truth.
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It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action. I do not regard flesh-food as necessary at any stage.
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The secret of a happy life lies in renunciation. Renunciation is life.
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The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die.
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Truthful movements spontaneously attract to themselves all manner of pure and disinterested help.
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Self-government means continuous effort to be independent of government control, whether it is foreign government or whether it is national. Swaraj government will be a sorry affair if people look up for the regulation of every detail of life.