Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.
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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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If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done.
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So far as I can see the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained mankind for ages.
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Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation.
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The press is called the Fourth Estate. It is definitely a power, but, to misuse that power is criminal.
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My own veneration for other faiths is the same as that for my own faith; therefore no thought of conversion is possible.
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If non-violence is the Law of our being, the future is with Women.
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Heroes are made in the hour of defeat.
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Detachment is not indifference. it is the prerequisite for effective involvement. Often what we think is best for others is distorted by our attachments to our opinions. We want others to be happy in the way we think they should be happy. It is only when we want nothing for ourselves that we are able to see clearly into others needs and understand how to serve them.
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The cottage industry of India had to perish in order that Lancashire might flourish.
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Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.
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I do not want my house to be rounded by walls and my windows to be closed to other cultures. I wish to become familiar with the culture of lands as much as possible but I will not permit them to affect me or shake me from my own status.
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Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.
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Where there is fear there is no religion.
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Nowhere in the world would you find such skeletons of cows and bullocks as you do in our cow-worshipping India.
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I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live, I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species.
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To practice nonviolence in mundane matters is to know its true value.
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A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
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I have not conceived my mission to be that of a knight-errant wandering everywhere to deliver people from difficult situations. My humble occupation has been to show people how they can solve their own difficulties.
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Hinduism with its message of ahimsa is to me the most glorious religion in the world.
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Faith is a function of the heart. It must be enforced by reason. The two are not antagonistic as some think. The more intense one's faith is, the more it whets one's reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.
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Nirvana is the utter extinction of all that is base in us, all that is vicious in us. Nirvana is not like the black, dead peace of the grave, but the living peace, the living happiness of a soul which is conscious of itself and conscious of having found its own abode in the heart of the Eternal.
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Today I know that physical training should have as much place in the curriculum as mental training.