Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good man will therefore resist an evil system or administration with his whole soul.
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Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government, but that it is also a substitute for violence or armed rebellion.
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Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.
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Carrying arms for the removal of the Arms Act can never fall under any scheme of nonviolence.
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My creed of nonviolence does not favour the punishment of thieves and dacoits and even murderers.
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There are unjust laws as there are unjust men.
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I know that in embarking on non-violence I shall be running what might be termed a mad risk. But the victories of truth have never been won without risks.
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Literacy is not the end of education nor even the beginning.
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The spinning wheel is the auspicious symbol of sharir yajna, body labour.
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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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True democracy is not inconsistent with a few persons representing the spirit, the hope and the aspirations of those whom they claim to represent.
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A plea for the spinning wheel is a plea for recognizing the dignity of labour.
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A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate.
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The only way by which you and I can wean orthodox Hindus from their bigotry is by patient argument and correct conduct.
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All the religions of the world describe God pre-eminently as the Friend of the friendless, Help of the helpless, and Protector of the weak.
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Is it not possible for us all to realize that the masses will never mount to freedom through murder?
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While everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates.... For I can see in the midst of death, life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.
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The Vedas are as indefinable as God and Hinduism.
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I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it . . .
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Those who believe religion and politics aren't connected don't understand either.
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The foundation of service and your real training lie in spinning khaddar.
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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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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.