Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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Satyagraha is an attribute of the spirit within.
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The duty of motherhood, which the vast majority of woman will always undertake, requires the qualities which men need not possess.
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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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A devotee of Rama may be said to be the same as the steadfast one (sthitaprajnya) of the Gita.
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Ahimsa and Truth are my two lungs. I cannot live without them.
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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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The religion of nonviolence is not meant merely for therishis and saints.
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If India adopted the doctrine of love as an active part of her religion and introduced it in her politics. Swaraj would descend upon India from heaven. But I am painfully aware that that event is far off as yet.
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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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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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The real meaning of economic equality is "To each according to his need."
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Fight if you must on the path of righteousness and God will be with you.
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I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people.
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Social service that savours of patronage is not service.
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Whoever is victor, there should be, after the war, a commonwealth of all nations.
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I have always held that social justice, even to the least the lowliest, is impossible of attainment by force.
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Generosity consists not the sum given, but the manner in which it is bestowed.
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A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate.
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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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A person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see his goal; he sees only his opposition and the obstacles before him.
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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 am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.