Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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If untouchability is an integral part of Hinduism, the latter is a spent bullet.
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One hour spent in spinning should be an hour of self-development for the spinner.
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Languages proclaim that woman is half of man, and by parity of reasoning, man is half of woman.
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Religions are different roads converging on the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal? I believe that all religions of the world are true more or less. I say "more or less" because I believe that everything the human hand touches, by reason of the very fact that human beings are imperfect, becomes imperfect.
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Non-cooperation in itself is unnatural, vicious and sinful.
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If the circulation of blood theory could not have been discovered without vivisection, the human kind could well have done without it.
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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.
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Is it not possible for us all to realize that the masses will never mount to freedom through murder?
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Swaraj is not a product of excitement or intoxication. Swaraj will be the natural and inevitable result of business like habits.
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I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest good of the greatest number. The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all.
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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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Active nonviolence of the brave puts to flight thieves, dacoits, murderers, and prepares an army of volunteers ready to sacrifice themselves in quelling riots, in extinguishing fires and feuds, and so on.
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The wind of God's grace is incessantly blowing. Lazy sailors on the sea of life do not take advantage of it. But the active and strong always keep the sails of their minds unfurled to catch the favorable winds and thus reach their destination very soon.
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Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly.
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My love of nationalism is that my country may become free, and if need be, the whole of the country die, so that the human race may live.
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Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes.
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If you do what you enjoy doing you'll never have to work hard.
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Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.
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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.
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Disobedience, to be civil, implies discipline, thought, care, attention.
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True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind.
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A devotee of Rama may be said to be the same as the steadfast one (sthitaprajnya) of the Gita.
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Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.
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I call myself a labourer because I take pride in calling myself a spinner, weaver, farmer and scavenger.