Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I would, in a sense, certainly assist the Amir of Afghanistan if he waged war against the British Government. That is to say, I would openly tell my countrymen that it would be a crime to help a government which had lost the confidence of the nation to remain in power.
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Impure means result in an impure end… One cannot reach truth by untruthfulness. Truthful conduct alone can reach Truth.
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The real love is to love them that hate you, to love your neighbor even though you distrust him.
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The spinning wheel is the auspicious symbol of sharir yajna, body labour.
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So far as I can see, the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained for ages. There used to be so-called laws of war, which made it tolerable. Now we know the truth. War knows no law except that of might. The atomic bomb brought an empty victory but it resulted for the time being in destroying the soul of Japan. What has happened to the soul of the destroying nation is yet too early to see.
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Of what avail is my love if it be only so long as I trust my friend?
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Always believe in your dreams, because if you don't, you'll still have hope.
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No Indian who aspires to follow the way of true religion can afford to remain aloof from politics.
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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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The line of demarcation between democracy and monocracy is often thin, but rigid and stronger than unbreakable steel.
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Even if masses of people were to burn khadi publicly and say that it is an insane programme, I will declare that those people have gone mad.
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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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Without living Truth, God is nowhere.
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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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A slave-holder cannot hold a slave without putting himself or his deputy in the cage for holding the slave.
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Do not crave to know the views of others, nor base your intent thereon. To think independently for yourself is a sign of fearlessness.
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The foundation of service and your real training lie in spinning khaddar.
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Celebration of Independence Day with great pomp and show was quite appropriate when we were fighting for independence which we had neither seen nor handled. Now we have handled it and we seem to be disillusioned. At least - I am, even if you are not. What are we celebrating today? Surely, not our disillusionment.
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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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It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion toward our fellow creatures.
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There are no good-byes, where ever you'll be, you'll be in my heart.
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Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.
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Sorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily borne, but not if they are imposed.