Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage-an inexorable demand-that we should cease to kill our fellow-creatures for satisfaction of our bodily wants.
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By ahimsa we will be able to save the cow and also win the friendship of the English.
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If you're going to be a bear, be a grizzly.
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If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further.
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It's a big error to dream of a society where nobody needs to be good.
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A satyagrahi must ceaselessly strive to realize and live truth. And he must never contemplate hurting anyone by thought, word or deed.
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Make injustice visible.
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Ahimsa and Truth are my two lungs. I cannot live without them.
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Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time. I must continue to bear testimony to truth even if I am forsaken by all. Mine may today be a voice in the wilderness, but it will be heard when all other voices are silenced, if it is the voice of Truth.
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If we are to reach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with children; and if they will grow up in their natural innocence, we won't have to struggle; we won't have to pass fruitless idle resolutions, but we shall go from love to love and peace to peace, until at last all the corners of the world are covered with that peace and love for which consciously or unconsciously the whole world is hungering.
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Always believe in your dreams, because if you don't, you'll still have hope.
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Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men.
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Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life.
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It is necessary first to purify the drunken and dissolute worshippers in charge of some of these temples.
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After long study and experience, I have come to the conclusion that (1) all religions are true; (2) all religions have some error in them; (3) all religions are almost as dear to me as my own Hinduism, in as much as all human beings should be as dear to one as one's own close relatives.
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Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children.
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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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Love in the sense of ahimsa has only a limited number of votaries in the world.
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I have nothing of the communalist in me because my Hinduism is all inclusive.
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If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth, you must reduce yourself to a zero.
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Sorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily borne, but not if they are imposed.
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To practice nonviolence in mundane matters is to know its true value.
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Complete independence through truth and non-violence means the independence of every unit, be it the humblest of the nation, without distinction of race, colour or creed.
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Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for nonviolence.