Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The press is called the Fourth Estate. It is definitely a power, but, to misuse that power is criminal.
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I would, in a sense, certainly assist the Amir of Afghanistan if he waged war against the British Government. That is to say, I would openly tell my countrymen that it would be a crime to help a government which had lost the confidence of the nation to remain in power.
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Solitude is a catalyst for innovation.
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The spinning wheel is the auspicious symbol of sharir yajna, body labour.
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Hinduism is like the Ganga,, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga it is beneficent in its total effect. It takes a provincial form in every provinvce, but the inner substance is retained everywhere.
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Heroes are made in the hour of defeat.
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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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I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people.
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I believe that the civilization India evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by our ancestors, Rome went, Greece shared the same fate; the might of the Pharaohs was broken; Japan has become Westernized; of China nothing can be said; but India is still, somehow or other, sound at the foundation.
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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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India is essentially a karmabhumi (land of duty) in contradistinction to bhogabhumi (land of enjoyment).
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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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In this instance of the fire-arms, the Asiatic has been most improperly bracketed with the native. The British Indian does not need any such restrictions as are imposed by the Bill on the natives regarding the carrying of fire-arms. The prominent race can remain so by preventing the native from arming himself. Is there a slightest vestige of justification for so preventing the British Indian?
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Of all the animal creations of God, main is the only animal who has been created in order that he may know his Maker. Man's aim is life is not therefore to add from day to day to his material prospects and to his material possessions, but his predominant calling is, from day to day to come nearer to his own Maker.
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Generosity consists not the sum given, but the manner in which it is bestowed.
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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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I know of no religion or sect that has done or is doing without a house of God, variously described as a temple, a mosque, a church, a synagogue or agiary.
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Your action expresses your priorities.
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Without an unreserved surrender to His grace, complete mastery over thoughts is impossible.
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The purification required is not of untouchables but of the so-called superior castes.
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In reality there are as many religions as there are individuals.
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A society or a nation constructed nonviolently must be able to withstand attack upon its structure from without or within.
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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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A vow must lead one upwards, never downwards towards perdition.