Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Always believe in your dreams, because if you don't, you'll still have hope.
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What is truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the 'voice within' tells you.
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Harshness is conquered by gentleness, hatred by love, lethargy by zeal and darkness by light.
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A nonviolent person's life is always at the disposal of him who would take it.
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Behind my non-cooperation there is always the keenest desire to cooperate on the slightest pretext even with the worst of opponents. To me, a very imperfect mortal, ever in need of God's grace, no one is beyond redemption.
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The use of soul-force for turning stones into bread would have been considered, as it is still considered, as black magic.
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The path of Truth is as narrow as it is straight. Even so is that of ahimsa.
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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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Humankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence. Hatred can be overcome only by love. Counter - hatred only increases the surface as well as the depth of hatred.
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We must widen the circle of our love till it embraces the whole village; the village in its turn must take into its fold the district, the district the province, and so on until the scope of our love becomes co-terminous with the world.
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My only sanction is the love and affection in which you hold me. But it has its weaknesses, as it has its strengths.
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The renunciation of the Gita is the acid test of faith.
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By using violence to subjugate one another we are using violence against our own souls.
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It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their armlessness into the central means for deliverance.
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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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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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It needs more than a heart of oak to shed all fear except the fear of God.
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Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.
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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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Impure means result in an impure end… One cannot reach truth by untruthfulness. Truthful conduct alone can reach Truth.
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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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What is it but my ahimsa that draws thousands of women to me in fearless confidence?
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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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Generosity consists not the sum given, but the manner in which it is bestowed.