Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world; but to change ourselves.
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Well, India is a country of nonsense.
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The instruments for the quest for Truth are as simple as they are difficult.
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He who runs may see that opium and such other intoxicants and narcotics stupefy a man's soul and reduce him to a level lower than that of beasts.
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A person unbound by vows can never be absolutely relied upon.
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Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use.
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A burning passion coupled with absolute detachment is the key to all success.
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The Gita distinguishes between the powers of light and darkness and demonstrates their incompatibility.
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Untouchability, I hold, is a sin, if Bhagavadgita is one of our Divine Books.
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That religion and that nation will be blotted out of the face of the earth which pins its faith on injustice, untruth or violence.
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It is better to resist oppression by violent means than to submit, but it is best of all to resist by nonviolent means.
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With my meager knowledge of my own religion I do not want to belong to any religious body.
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Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion.
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The English have taught us that we were not one nation before and that it will reaquire centuries before we become one nation. This is without foundation. We were one nation before they came to India. One thought inspired us. Our mode of life was the same. It was because we were one nation that they were able to establish one kingdom.
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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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Cow-slaughter and man-slaughter are in my opinion two sides of the same coin.
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Satyagraha is a process of educating public opinion, such that it covers all the elements of the society and in the end makes itself irresistible.
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If there was any teacher in the world who insisted upon the inexorable law of cause and effect, it was Gautam, and yet my friends, the Buddhists outside India, would, if they could, avoid the effects of their own acts.
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My ahimsa is my own. I am not able to accept in its entirety the doctrine of non-killing of animals.
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If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed, but hate these things in yourself, not in another.
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It is a first class human tragedy that people of the earth who claim to believe in the message of Jesus, whom they describe as the Prince of Peace, show little of that belief in actual practice.
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Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.
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To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.
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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.