Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the government of the day, to do the work of defense for him. A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women.
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I have nothing of the communalist in me because my Hinduism is all inclusive.
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Nations are born out of travail and suffering.
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The Law and the Lawgiver are one.
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Mother cow expects from us nothing but grass and grain.
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Our duty is very simple and plain. We want to serve the community, and in our own humble way to serve the Empire. We believe in the righteousness of the cause, which it is our privilege to espouse. We have an abiding faith in the mercy of the Almighty God, and we have firm faith in the British Constitution. That being so, we should fail in our duty if we wrote anything with a view to hurt.
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Those who know how to think need no teachers.
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If you're going to be a bear, be a grizzly.
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If India adopted the doctrine of love as an active part of her religion and introduced it in her politics. Swaraj would descend upon India from heaven. But I am painfully aware that that event is far off as yet.
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Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men.
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Your action expresses your priorities.
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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.
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My love for nonviolence is superior to every other thing, mundane or super mundane.
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Love in the sense of ahimsa has only a limited number of votaries in the world.
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Hand-spinning is designed to put millions of rupees in the hands of the poor villagers.
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What is truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the 'voice within' tells you.
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The only praise I would like and treasure is the promotion of the activities to which my life is dedicated.
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After long study and experience, I have come to the conclusion that (1) all religions are true; (2) all religions have some error in them; (3) all religions are almost as dear to me as my own Hinduism, in as much as all human beings should be as dear to one as one's own close relatives.
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Justice does not help those who slumber but helps only those who are vigilant.
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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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I do not want India to rise on the ruin of other nations.
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I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
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So far as I can see, the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained for ages. There used to be so-called laws of war, which made it tolerable. Now we know the truth. War knows no law except that of might. The atomic bomb brought an empty victory but it resulted for the time being in destroying the soul of Japan. What has happened to the soul of the destroying nation is yet too early to see.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. Without interrelation with society he cannot realize his oneness with the universe or suppress his egotism. His social interdependence enables him to test his faith and to prove himself on the touchstone of reality.