Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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A man with a grain of faith in God never loses hope, because he ever believes in the ultimate triumph of Truth.
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The Charkha supplemented the agriculture of the villagers and gave it dignity.
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God forbid that India should ever become a military nation, which would be a menace to the peace of the world, and yet if things went on as they were doing, what hope was there for India and, therefore, for the world?
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Cow protection means protection of the weak, the helpless, the dumb and the deaf.
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Prayer presupposes faith. No prayer is in vain. Prayer is like any other action.
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Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.
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Active nonviolence of the brave puts to flight thieves, dacoits, murderers, and prepares an army of volunteers ready to sacrifice themselves in quelling riots, in extinguishing fires and feuds, and so on.
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The restoration of spinning to its central place in India's peaceful campaign for deliverance from the imperial yoke gives her women a special status.
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Good travels at a snail's pace. Those who want to do good are not selfish, they are not in a hurry, they know that to impregnate people with good requires a long time.
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Tolerance gives us spiritual insight, which is as far from fanaticism as the north pole is from the south.
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Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.
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In this instance of the fire-arms, the Asiatic has been most improperly bracketed with the native. The British Indian does not need any such restrictions as are imposed by the Bill on the natives regarding the carrying of fire-arms. The prominent race can remain so by preventing the native from arming himself. Is there a slightest vestige of justification for so preventing the British Indian?
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There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.
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I call myself a labourer because I take pride in calling myself a spinner, weaver, farmer and scavenger.
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A satyagrahi exhausts all other means before he resorts to satyagraha.
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A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.
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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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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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The press is called the Fourth Estate. It is definitely a power, but, to misuse that power is criminal.
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If untouchability is an integral part of Hinduism, the latter is a spent bullet.
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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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Prayer is a sign of repentance, a desire to become better, purer.
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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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I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world. I believe that they are all God- given and I believe that they were necessary for the people to whom these religions were revealed. And I believe that if only we could all of us read the scriptures of the different faiths from the standpoints of the followers of these faiths, we should find that they were at bottom all one and were all helpful to one another.