Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest good of the greatest number. The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all.
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Once Jesus had blazed the trail, his twelve disciples could carry on his mission without his presence.
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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.
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A seeker of truth will never begin by discounting his opponent's statement as unworthy of trust.
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With every true friendship we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests. Thought by thought and act by act, with every breath we build more firmly the kingdom of non-violence that is the true home of the spirit of humanity.
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I am not fighting machinery as such, but the madness of thinking that machinery saves labor. Men save labor until thousands of them are without work and die of hunger on the streets. I want to secure employment and livelihood not only to part of the human race, but for all. I will not have the enrichment of a few at the expense of the community. At present the machine is helping a small minority to live on the exploitation of the masses. The motive force of this minority is not humanity or love of their kind, but greed and avarice.
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The more efficient a force is, the more silent and the more subtle it is.
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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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Truth is God, and Truth overrides all our plans. The whole Truth is only embodied within the heart of Great Power-Truth.
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Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.
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The real meaning of economic equality is "To each according to his need."
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The wind of God's grace is incessantly blowing. Lazy sailors on the sea of life do not take advantage of it. But the active and strong always keep the sails of their minds unfurled to catch the favorable winds and thus reach their destination very soon.
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The spinning wheel for us is the foundation for all public corporate life.
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There is no such thing as 'Gandhism', and I do not want to leave any sect after me.
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Spiritually, compulsory disarmament has made us unmanly, and the presence of an alien army of occupation, employed with deadly effect to crush in us the spirit of resistance, has made us think we cannot look after ourselves or put up a defense against foreign aggression, or even defend our homes and families.
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Though violence is not lawful, when it is offered in self-defense or for the defense of the defenseless, it is an act of bravery far better than cowardly submission. The latter befits neither man nor woman. Under violence, there are many stages and varieties of bravery. Every man must judge this for himself. No other person can or has the right.
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Surely, conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows His creatures' hearts.
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No country can become a nation by producing a race of imitators.
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The duty of motherhood, which the vast majority of woman will always undertake, requires the qualities which men need not possess.
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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 man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate.
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Non-cooperation means refusal both to help the sinner in his sin and not to accept any help or gift from him till he has repented.
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Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.
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The Gita is not for those who have no faith.