Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The spinning wheel for us is the foundation for all public corporate life.
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My own experience but confirms the opinion that the Musalman as a rule is a bully, and the Hindu as rule is a coward.
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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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Cow protection means protection of the weak, the helpless, the dumb and the deaf.
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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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Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men.
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In a nonviolent army, the general and the officers are elected, or are as if elected, when their authority is moral and rests solely on the willing obedience of the rank and file.
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The hater hates not for the sake of hatred but because he wants to drive away from his country the hated being or beings.
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A genuine fast cleanses the body, mind and soul. It crucifies the flesh and to that extent sets the soul free.
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Those who know how to think need no teachers.
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I have nothing of the communalist in me because my Hinduism is all inclusive.
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The mentality which made one section of the Indians look upon another as enemies was suicidal; it could only serve to perpetuate their slavery.
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I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence.
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I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection.
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Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.
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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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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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I hold that the world is sick of armed rebellions.
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I do not believe that the spiritual law works on a field of its own. On the contrary, it expresses itself only through the ordinary activities of life. It thus affects the economic, the social and the political fields.
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The Charkha supplemented the agriculture of the villagers and gave it dignity.
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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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There is no better way of industrializing the villages of India than the spinning wheel.
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With every true friendship, we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests.
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It will profit you nothing to remember old wrongs and nurse old enmities.