Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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All true art must help the soul to realize its inner self.
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Justice does not help those who slumber but helps only those who are vigilant.
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The bomb-throwers have discredited the cause of freedom, in whose name they threw the bombs.
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You can't lead a true life without suffering.
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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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[I]t seems to me as clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime.
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Since the propagation of nonviolence is the mission of my life, I must pursue it in all weathers.
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The use of soul-force for turning stones into bread would have been considered, as it is still considered, as black magic.
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I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
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To a hungry man, a piece of bread is the face of God.
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True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind.
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Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion.
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Death on the battlefield is welcome to a soldier.
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When untouchability is rooted out, these distinctions will vanish and no one will consider himself superior to any other.
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The Law and the Lawgiver are one.
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Your action expresses your priorities.
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Moral result can only be produced by moral restraints.
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Nations are born out of travail and suffering.
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Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy. I did not move a muscle when I first heard that the atom bomb had wiped out Hiroshima. On the contrary, I said to myself, Unless now the world adopts non-violence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind.
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Love can never express itself by imposing sufferings on others. It can only express itself by self-suffering, by self-purification.
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Government of the people by the people and for the people cannot be conducted at the bidding of one man, however great he may be.
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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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To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act.
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Change occurs when deeply felt private experiences are given public legitimacy.