Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Love, otherwise ahimsa, sustains this planet of ours.
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Roving dogs do not indicate the civilisation or compassion of the society. They betray on the country the ignorance and lethargy of its members.
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True education is that which proves useful in life and makes you industrious.
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It is derogatory to the dignity of mankind, it is derogatory to the dignity of India, to entertain for one single moment hatred towards Englishmen.
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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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So far as I can see, the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained for ages. There used to be so-called laws of war, which made it tolerable. Now we know the truth. War knows no law except that of might. The atomic bomb brought an empty victory but it resulted for the time being in destroying the soul of Japan. What has happened to the soul of the destroying nation is yet too early to see.
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A duty religiously performed carries with it several other important consequences.
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Literacy is not the end of education nor even the beginning.
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Death on the battlefield is welcome to a soldier.
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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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The goal ever recedes from us. The greater the progress the greater the recognition of our unworthiness. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.
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Nations are born out of travail and suffering.
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No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation.
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I would rather drown myself in the waters of the Sabarmati than harbour hate or animosity in my heart.
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Tolstoy was the greatest apostle of nonviolence that the present age has produced.
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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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Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.
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If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide.
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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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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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I will not be a traitor of God to please the whole world.
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I call myself a labourer because I take pride in calling myself a spinner, weaver, farmer and scavenger.
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Of what avail is my love if it be only so long as I trust my friend?
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It hurts me to think that people in their rush for everything modern despise all their ancient traditions and ignore them in their lives.