Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Whoever is victor, there should be, after the war, a commonwealth of all nations.
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Be congruent, be authentic, be your true self.
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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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No Indian who aspires to follow the way of true religion can afford to remain aloof from politics.
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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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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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Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men.
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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 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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True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it.
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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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Satyagraha is an attribute of the spirit within.
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I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people.
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Make injustice visible.
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Detachment is not indifference. it is the prerequisite for effective involvement. Often what we think is best for others is distorted by our attachments to our opinions. We want others to be happy in the way we think they should be happy. It is only when we want nothing for ourselves that we are able to see clearly into others needs and understand how to serve them.
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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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In reality there are as many religions as there are individuals.
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Disobedience, to be civil, implies discipline, thought, care, attention.
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Duly Enlightened Gandhi's head by Mall of the 'Free Press Journal,' Bombay, in 1932Watches may disagree, but let us not.
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There is no better way of industrializing the villages of India than the spinning wheel.
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Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness.
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You can't lead a true life without suffering.
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Truth is self-evident, nonviolence is its maturest fruit. It is contained in truth, but is not self-evident.
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My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism... true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village.