Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The spinning wheel for us is the foundation for all public corporate life.
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The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die.
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Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.
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The more efficient a force is, the more silent and the more subtle it is.
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The spinning wheel is the auspicious symbol of sharir yajna, body labour.
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A satyagrahi is dead to his body even before the enemy attempts to kill him.
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Rama was not only on the lips of Hanuman. He was enthroned in his heart. He gave Hanuman exhaustless strength.
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Heroes are made in the hour of defeat.
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We, the English educated Indians, often unconsciously make the terrible mistake of thinking that the microscopic minority of the English-speaking Indians is the whole of India.
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Urbanization in India is a slow but sure death for her villages and villagers.
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Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes.
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A satyagrahi must ceaselessly strive to realize and live truth. And he must never contemplate hurting anyone by thought, word or deed.
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Languages proclaim that woman is half of man, and by parity of reasoning, man is half of woman.
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It will profit you nothing to remember old wrongs and nurse old enmities.
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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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A slave-holder cannot hold a slave without putting himself or his deputy in the cage for holding the slave.
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I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people.
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My religion is a matter solely between my Maker and myself.
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Ethically they had arrived at the conclusion that man's supremacy over lower animals meant not that the former should prey upon the latter, but that the higher should protect the lower, and that there should be mutual aid between the two as between man and man. They had also brought out the truth that man eats not for enjoyment but to live.
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The foundation of service and your real training lie in spinning khaddar.
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A genuine fast cleanses the body, mind and soul. It crucifies the flesh and to that extent sets the soul free.
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Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.
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There are subjects where reason cannot take us far and we have to accept things on faith. Faith then does not contradict reason but transcends it. Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason.
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Fight if you must on the path of righteousness and God will be with you.