Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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It was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it.
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If a man voluntarily allows himself to be crushed, he yields the oil of moral energy which sustains the world.
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Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.
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As soon as we become one with the ocean in the shape of God, there is no more rest for us, nor indeed do we need rest any longer.
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In a self-respecting India, is not every woman's virtue as much every man's concern as his own sister's?
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If you're going to be a bear, be a grizzly.
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I would rather drown myself in the waters of the Sabarmati than harbour hate or animosity in my heart.
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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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The world is changing every moment, and is therefore unreal. It has non permanent existence.
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In our progress towards the goal, we ever see more and more enchanting scenery.
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I have nothing of the communalist in me because my Hinduism is all inclusive.
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Freedom from all attachment is the realization of God as Truth.
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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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An India awakened and free has a message of peace and goodwill to a groaning world.
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Our duty is very simple and plain. We want to serve the community, and in our own humble way to serve the Empire. We believe in the righteousness of the cause, which it is our privilege to espouse. We have an abiding faith in the mercy of the Almighty God, and we have firm faith in the British Constitution. That being so, we should fail in our duty if we wrote anything with a view to hurt.
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True democracy is not inconsistent with a few persons representing the spirit, the hope and the aspirations of those whom they claim to represent.
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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.
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I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
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Nations are born out of travail and suffering.
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A duty religiously performed carries with it several other important consequences.
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Mother cow expects from us nothing but grass and grain.
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Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realise what a tremendous advantage she has over man.
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There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, i.e. the voice of conscience even though such obedience may cost many a bitter tear, and even more, separation from friends, from family, from the state, to which you may belong, from all that you have held as dear as life itself. For this obedience is the law of our being.
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Religions are different roads converging on the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal? I believe that all religions of the world are true more or less. I say "more or less" because I believe that everything the human hand touches, by reason of the very fact that human beings are imperfect, becomes imperfect.