Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
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The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.
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I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
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Change occurs when deeply felt private experiences are given public legitimacy.
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Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness.
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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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Freedom from all attachment is the realization of God as Truth.
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To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act.
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There being no absolute and universal standard of right, terrorism must be held to be wrong in every case.
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Love transcends all animosity and is never partial.
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Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. That strength may be physical or of the heart or, if we do not fight shy of the word, of the spirit. Strength of the heart connotes soul-force. Let it be remembered that physical force is transitory, even as the body is transitory. But the power of spirit is permanent even as the spirit is everlasting.
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If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further.
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Disobedience, to be civil, implies discipline, thought, care, attention.
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I recall having read, at the brothers' instance, Madame Blavatsky's Key to Theosophy. This book stimulated in me the desire to read books on Hinduism, and disabused me of the notion fostered by the missionaries that Hinduism was rife with superstition.
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A courageous man prefers death to the surrender of self-respect.
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The use of soul-force for turning stones into bread would have been considered, as it is still considered, as black magic.
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My love for nonviolence is superior to every other thing, mundane or super mundane.
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The only thing lawful is non-violence. Violence can never be lawful in the sense meant here, i.e., not according to man-made laws, but according to the laws made by Nature for man.
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A duty religiously performed carries with it several other important consequences.
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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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Love can never express itself by imposing sufferings on others. It can only express itself by self-suffering, by self-purification.
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You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good man will therefore resist an evil system or administration with his whole soul.
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Men of stainless character and self purification will easily inspire confidence and automatically purify the atmosphere around them.
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The way of peace is the way of truth. Truthfulness is even more important than peacefulness.