Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The real meaning of economic equality is "To each according to his need."
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A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.
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It is not my purpose to attempt a real autobiography. I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.
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There are unjust laws as there are unjust men.
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Often does good come out of evil. But that is God's, not man's plan.
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Swaraj is not a product of excitement or intoxication. Swaraj will be the natural and inevitable result of business like habits.
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The foundation of service and your real training lie in spinning khaddar.
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There are subjects where reason cannot take us far and we have to accept things on faith. Faith then does not contradict reason but transcends it. Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason.
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I would, in a sense, certainly assist the Amir of Afghanistan if he waged war against the British Government. That is to say, I would openly tell my countrymen that it would be a crime to help a government which had lost the confidence of the nation to remain in power.
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It is the law of love that rules mankind.
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Carrying arms for the removal of the Arms Act can never fall under any scheme of nonviolence.
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No action which is not voluntary can be called moral.
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I have had the hardihood to say that Swaraj could not be granted even by God.
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A slave has not the freedom even to do the right thing.
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In Swaraj, based on ahimsa, people need not know their rights, but it is also necessary for them to know their duties.
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The wind of God's grace is incessantly blowing. Lazy sailors on the sea of life do not take advantage of it. But the active and strong always keep the sails of their minds unfurled to catch the favorable winds and thus reach their destination very soon.
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Exploitation and domination of one nation over another can have no place in a world striving to put an end to all war.
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Cow preservation is an article of faith in Hinduism.
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I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest good of the greatest number. The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all.
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I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it . . .
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Do not crave to know the views of others, nor base your intent thereon. To think independently for yourself is a sign of fearlessness.
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Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.
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It is not part of religion to breed buffaloes or, for that matter, cows.
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I am not conscious of a single experience throughout my three months' stay in England and Europe that made me feel that after all East is East and West is West. On the contrary, I have been convinced more than ever that human nature is much the same, no matter under what clime it flourishes, and that if you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold affection returned to you.