-
All the religions of the world describe God pre-eminently as the Friend of the friendless, Help of the helpless, and Protector of the weak.
Mahatma Gandhi -
To my mind the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.
Mahatma Gandhi
-
Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?
Mahatma Gandhi -
The only praise I would like and treasure is the promotion of the activities to which my life is dedicated.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Spiritually, compulsory disarmament has made us unmanly, and the presence of an alien army of occupation, employed with deadly effect to crush in us the spirit of resistance, has made us think we cannot look after ourselves or put up a defense against foreign aggression, or even defend our homes and families.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Why, of all places in Johannesburg, the Indian location should be chosen for dumping down all kaffirs of the town, passes my comprehension. Of course, under my suggestion, the Town Council must withdraw the Kaffirs from the Location. About this mixing of the Kaffirs with the Indians I must confess I feel most strongly. I think it is very unfair to the Indian population, and it is an undue tax on even the proverbial patience of my countrymen.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation.
Mahatma Gandhi -
You can judge a society by the way it treats it's animals.
Mahatma Gandhi
-
He who runs may see that opium and such other intoxicants and narcotics stupefy a man's soul and reduce him to a level lower than that of beasts.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The attainment of national independence is to me a search for truth.
Mahatma Gandhi -
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the present.
Mahatma Gandhi -
A man who is truthful and does not mean ill even to his adversary will be slow to believe charges even against his foes. He will, however, try to understand the viewpoints of his opponents and will always keep an open mind and seek every opportunity of serving his opponents.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power.
Mahatma Gandhi
-
A satyagrahi is sometimes bound to use language which is capable of two meanings, provided both the meanings are obvious and necessary and there is no intention to deceive anyone.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Hinduism is like the Ganga,, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga it is beneficent in its total effect. It takes a provincial form in every provinvce, but the inner substance is retained everywhere.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Even a little untruth destroys a man, as a drop of poison ruins milk.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I would rather have India reduced to a state of pauperism than have thousands of drunkards in our midst.
Mahatma Gandhi -
No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts.
Mahatma Gandhi
-
Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world; but to change ourselves.
Mahatma Gandhi -
So far as I can see the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained mankind for ages.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Vegetarians should have that moral basis-that a man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows.
Mahatma Gandhi -
My whole soul rebels against the idea that Hinduism and Islam represent two antagonistic cultures and doctrines.
Mahatma Gandhi