Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Purification is never for the selfishly idle, it accrues only to the selflessly industrious.
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You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.
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Anything which is a hindrance to the fight of the soul is a delusion and a snare, even like the body which often does hinder you in the path of salvation.
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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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[I]t seems to me as clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime.
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In the dictionary of Satyagraha, there is no enemy.
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We are too near the scene of tragedy to realize that this canker or untouchability has traveled far beyond its prescribed limits and has sapped the very foundation of the whole nation.
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The restoration of free speech, free association and free press is almost the whole Swaraj.
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I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence.
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My Swaraj will be not be a result of murder of others but a voluntary act of continuous self-sacrifice.
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No Indian who aspires to follow the way of true religion can afford to remain aloof from politics.
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Satyagraha is an attribute of the spirit within.
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I do not want to see the allies defeated. But I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability that is amazing and seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed. Englishmen are showing the strength that Empire builders must have. I expect them to rise much higher than they seem to be doing.
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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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I will not be a traitor of God to please the whole world.
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A devotee of Rama may be said to be the same as the steadfast one (sthitaprajnya) of the Gita.
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Freedom from all attachment is the realization of God as Truth.
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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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A duty religiously performed carries with it several other important consequences.
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Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity...If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior...If non-violence is the law of our being, the future is with women.
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Remember that there is always a limit to self-indulgence but none to self-restraint, and let us daily progress in that direction.
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Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin.
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Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.
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It is a travesty of true religion to consider one's own religion as superior and other's as inferior.