Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people.
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Freedom of worship, even of public speech, would become a farce if interference became the order of the day.
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Hinduism has made marvelous discoveries in things of religion, of the spirit, of the soul. We have no eye for these great and fine discoveries. We are dazzled by the material progress that Western science has made. Ancient India has survived because Hinduism was not developed along material but spiritual lines.
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Cow protection means protection of the weak, the helpless, the dumb and the deaf.
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No Indian who aspires to follow the way of true religion can afford to remain aloof from politics.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. Without interrelation with society he cannot realize his oneness with the universe or suppress his egotism. His social interdependence enables him to test his faith and to prove himself on the touchstone of reality.
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Social service that savours of patronage is not service.
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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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Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.
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Mother cow expects from us nothing but grass and grain.
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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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I believe that just as everyone inherits a particular form so does he inherit the particular characteristics and qualities of his progenitors, and to make this admission is to conserve one's energy.
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Where there is truth, there also is knowledge which is true.
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If a man voluntarily allows himself to be crushed, he yields the oil of moral energy which sustains the world.
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The spinning wheel for us is the foundation for all public corporate life.
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What is truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the 'voice within' tells you.
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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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A slave-holder cannot hold a slave without putting himself or his deputy in the cage for holding the slave.
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The real meaning of economic equality is "To each according to his need."
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All satyagraha and fasting is a species of tyaga. It depends for its effects upon an expression of wholesome public opinion shorn of all bitterness.
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A nonviolent person's life is always at the disposal of him who would take it.
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Whoever is victor, there should be, after the war, a commonwealth of all nations.
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Do not crave to know the views of others, nor base your intent thereon. To think independently for yourself is a sign of fearlessness.