Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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A great man may not do great things but they do ordinary things greatly.
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Ahimsa is the height of Kshatriya dharma as it represents the climax of fearlessness.
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All true art must help the soul to realize its inner self.
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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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Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men.
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The mentality which made one section of the Indians look upon another as enemies was suicidal; it could only serve to perpetuate their slavery.
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If we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place.
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To a hungry man, a piece of bread is the face of God.
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Impure means result in an impure end… One cannot reach truth by untruthfulness. Truthful conduct alone can reach Truth.
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It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their armlessness into the central means for deliverance.
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It was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it.
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If we are to reach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with children; and if they will grow up in their natural innocence, we won't have to struggle; we won't have to pass fruitless idle resolutions, but we shall go from love to love and peace to peace, until at last all the corners of the world are covered with that peace and love for which consciously or unconsciously the whole world is hungering.
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Those who know how to think need no teachers.
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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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When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from within.
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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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Surely, conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows His creatures' hearts.
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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 truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.
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Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy. I did not move a muscle when I first heard that the atom bomb had wiped out Hiroshima. On the contrary, I said to myself, Unless now the world adopts non-violence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind.
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I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection.
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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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Shraddha means self-confidence and self-confidence means faith in God.
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It will profit you nothing to remember old wrongs and nurse old enmities.