Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Nirvana is the utter extinction of all that is base in us, all that is vicious in us. Nirvana is not like the black, dead peace of the grave, but the living peace, the living happiness of a soul which is conscious of itself and conscious of having found its own abode in the heart of the Eternal.
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I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection.
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If Swaraj is to be had by peaceful methods, it will only be attained by attention to every little detail of national life.
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Harshness is conquered by gentleness, hatred by love, lethargy by zeal and darkness by light.
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The spinning wheel is not meant to oust a single man or woman from his or her occupation.
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I hold that the world is sick of armed rebellions.
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I am not conscious of a single experience throughout my three months' stay in England and Europe that made me feel that after all East is East and West is West. On the contrary, I have been convinced more than ever that human nature is much the same, no matter under what clime it flourishes, and that if you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold affection returned to you.
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The renunciation of the Gita is the acid test of faith.
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I condemn, for all climes and for all times, secret murders and unfair methods even for a fair cause.
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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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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.
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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 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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Untouchability, I hold, is a sin, if Bhagavadgita is one of our Divine Books.
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A man with a grain of faith in God never loses hope, because he ever believes in the ultimate triumph of Truth.
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The mentality which made one section of the Indians look upon another as enemies was suicidal; it could only serve to perpetuate their slavery.
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The more efficient a force is, the more silent and the more subtle it is.
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There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.
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Humankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence. Hatred can be overcome only by love. Counter - hatred only increases the surface as well as the depth of hatred.
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I have always held that social justice, even to the least the lowliest, is impossible of attainment by force.
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Capital exploits the labour of a few to multiply itself.
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The restoration of spinning to its central place in India's peaceful campaign for deliverance from the imperial yoke gives her women a special status.
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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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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.