Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society.
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There being no absolute and universal standard of right, terrorism must be held to be wrong in every case.
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Never make a promise in haste.
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Men of stainless character and self purification will easily inspire confidence and automatically purify the atmosphere around them.
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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.
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The real meaning of economic equality is "To each according to his need."
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He who is ever brooding over result often loses nerve in the performance of his duty.
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Hindu-Muslim unity, khaddar and removal of untouchability are to me the foundation of Swaraj.
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For me, humanitarian service, or rather service of all that lives, is religion. And I draw no distinction between such religion and politics.
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The khadi spirit means also an infinite patience.
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I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.
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My ahimsa would not tolerate the idea of giving a free meal to a healthy person who has not worked for it in some honest way.
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My creed of nonviolence is an extremely active force.
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The builders of the British Indian Empire have patiently built its four pillars-the European interests, the army, the Indian princes and the communal divisions.
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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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At the moment the British Common-wealth is a Commonwealth of White nation.
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The cause is everything. Those even who are dearest to us must be shunted for the sake of the cause.
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The moment the cultivators of the soil realize their power, the evil of Zamindari will be sterilized.
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Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood.
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We are our own slaves, not of the British. This should be engraved on our minds. The whites cannot remain if we do not want them. If the idea is to drive them out with firearms, let every Indian consider what precious little profit Europe has found in these.
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The measure of a society can be how well its people treat its animals.
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Naked violence repels like the naked skeleton shorn of flesh, blood and the velvety skin.
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Freedom of worship, even of public speech, would become a farce if interference became the order of the day.
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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.