Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.
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The khadi spirit means also an infinite patience.
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God forbid that India should ever become a military nation, which would be a menace to the peace of the world, and yet if things went on as they were doing, what hope was there for India and, therefore, for the world?
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Government of the people by the people and for the people cannot be conducted at the bidding of one man, however great he may be.
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My only sanction is the love and affection in which you hold me. But it has its weaknesses, as it has its strengths.
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Ahimsa and Truth are my two lungs. I cannot live without them.
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My dharma teaches me to give my life for the sake of others without even attempting to kill.
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I would, in a sense, certainly assist the Amir of Afghanistan if he waged war against the British Government. That is to say, I would openly tell my countrymen that it would be a crime to help a government which had lost the confidence of the nation to remain in power.
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I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people.
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It is necessary first to purify the drunken and dissolute worshippers in charge of some of these temples.
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Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words. Manage and watch your words, for they will become your actions. Consider and judge your actions, for they have become your habits. Acknowledge and watch your habits, for they shall become your values. Understand and embrace your values, for they become your destiny.
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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.
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A slave-holder cannot hold a slave without putting himself or his deputy in the cage for holding the slave.
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True democracy is not inconsistent with a few persons representing the spirit, the hope and the aspirations of those whom they claim to represent.
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What is it but my ahimsa that draws thousands of women to me in fearless confidence?
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I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it . . .
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The way of peace is the way of truth. Truthfulness is even more important than peacefulness.
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Complete non-violence is complete absence of ill-will against all that lives. It therefore embraces even sub-human life, not excluding noxious insects and beasts. They have not been created to feed our destructive propensities. If we only knew the mind of the Creator, we should find their proper place in His creation.
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Nirvana is the utter extinction of all that is base in us, all that is vicious in us. Nirvana is not like the black, dead peace of the grave, but the living peace, the living happiness of a soul which is conscious of itself and conscious of having found its own abode in the heart of the Eternal.
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Surely, conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows His creatures' hearts.
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All true art must help the soul to realize its inner self.
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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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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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Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.