Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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To a hungry man, a piece of bread is the face of God.
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Let our first act each morning be the following resolve: I shall not fear anyone on Earth. I shall fear only God.
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I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage-an inexorable demand-that we should cease to kill our fellow-creatures for satisfaction of our bodily wants.
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The best politics is right action.
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Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.
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Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for nonviolence.
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What can be richer and more fruitful than a greater fulfillment of the vow of nonviolence in thought, word and deed or the spread of that spirit?
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My mother would tell me that the shortest cut to purification after the unholy touch was to cancel the touch by touching any Mussalman passing by.
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In the midst of death life persists.
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To remove untouchability is a penance that caste Hindus owe to Hinduism and to themselves.
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Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.
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The world is changing every moment, and is therefore unreal. It has non permanent existence.
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I suggest that we are thieves in a way. If I take anything that I do not need for my own immediate use, and keep it, I thieve it from somebody else. ... Nature produces enough for our wants from day to day, and if only every-body took enough for himself and nothing more, there would be no pauperism in this world, there would be no man dying of starvation in this world. But so long as we have got this inequality, so long we are thieving.
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Satan's successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips.
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I have always held that social justice, even to the least the lowliest, is impossible of attainment by force.
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A great man may not do great things but they do ordinary things greatly.
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In our progress towards the goal, we ever see more and more enchanting scenery.
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My greatest weapon is mute prayer.
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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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The Indian struggle is not anti-British, it is anti-exploitation, anti-foreign rule, not anti-foreigners.
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If a man voluntarily allows himself to be crushed, he yields the oil of moral energy which sustains the world.
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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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You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.
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I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.