Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Of what avail is my love if it be only so long as I trust my friend?
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Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
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I call myself a labourer because I take pride in calling myself a spinner, weaver, farmer and scavenger.
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Like the bee gathering honey from the different flowers, the wise person accepts the essence of the different scriptures and sees only the good in all religions.
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They might kill me but they cannot kill Gandhism. If truth can be killed, Gandhism can be killed.
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Swaraj does not depend on jail going. If it did, there are thousands of prisoners in jail today. It depends on everyone doing his or her own task.
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It amazes me to find an intelligent person who fights against something which he does not at all believe exists.
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I have always held that social justice, even to the least the lowliest, is impossible of attainment by force.
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The way of peace is the way of truth. Truthfulness is even more important than peacefulness.
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I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts. A thoughtless word hardly ever escaped my tongue or pen. Experience has taught me that silence is part of the spiritual discipline of a votary of truth. We find so many people impatient to talk. All this talking can hardly be said to be of any benefit to the world. It is so much waste of time. My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.
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Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you.
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I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.
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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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Rama, Allah and God are to me convertible terms.
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I know that in embarking on non-violence I shall be running what might be termed a mad risk. But the victories of truth have never been won without risks.
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The rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society.
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Let us remember that we are all Indians eating Indian grain and salt, and living on the dumb Indian masses.
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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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There being no absolute and universal standard of right, terrorism must be held to be wrong in every case.
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Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.
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A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.
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Complete independence through truth and non-violence means the independence of every unit, be it the humblest of the nation, without distinction of race, colour or creed.
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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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For me, humanitarian service, or rather service of all that lives, is religion. And I draw no distinction between such religion and politics.