Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Love, otherwise ahimsa, sustains this planet of ours.
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The Gita is not for those who have no faith.
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I have nothing of the communalist in me because my Hinduism is all inclusive.
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True education is that which proves useful in life and makes you industrious.
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There are no good-byes, where ever you'll be, you'll be in my heart.
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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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It hurts me to think that people in their rush for everything modern despise all their ancient traditions and ignore them in their lives.
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Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world; but to change ourselves.
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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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It is degrading both for man and woman that woman should be called upon or induced to forsake the hearth and shoulder the rifle for the protection of that hearth.
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Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity...If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior...If non-violence is the law of our being, the future is with women.
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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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A burning passion coupled with absolute detachment is the key to all success.
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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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Running away for fear of death, leaving one's dear ones, temples or music to take care of themselves, is irreligion; it is cowardice.
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Freedom from all attachment is the realization of God as Truth.
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Non-cooperation in itself is unnatural, vicious and sinful.
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The more efficient a force is, the more silent and the more subtle it is.
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I recall having read, at the brothers' instance, Madame Blavatsky's Key to Theosophy. This book stimulated in me the desire to read books on Hinduism, and disabused me of the notion fostered by the missionaries that Hinduism was rife with superstition.
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Whoever is victor, there should be, after the war, a commonwealth of all nations.
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When you make yourself into zero, your power becomes invincible.
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Mother cow expects from us nothing but grass and grain.
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You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good man will therefore resist an evil system or administration with his whole soul.
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Harshness is conquered by gentleness, hatred by love, lethargy by zeal and darkness by light.