Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Begin your day with prayer, and make it so soulful that it may remain with you until the evening.
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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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If I preach against the modern artificial life of sensual enjoyment, and ask men and women to go back to the simple life epitomized in the charkha, I do so because I know that without an intelligent return to simplicity, there is no escape from our d.
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Solitude is a catalyst for innovation.
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It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion toward our fellow creatures.
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Where there is truth, there also is knowledge which is true.
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A nonviolent person's life is always at the disposal of him who would take it.
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It is difficult for me to regard anyone who obeys no moral principle in his conduct to be a religious man.
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Without living Truth, God is nowhere.
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The spinning wheel is the auspicious symbol of sharir yajna, body labour.
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Love in the sense of ahimsa has only a limited number of votaries in the world.
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No Indian who aspires to follow the way of true religion can afford to remain aloof from politics.
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It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.
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So far as I can see, the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained for ages. There used to be so-called laws of war, which made it tolerable. Now we know the truth. War knows no law except that of might. The atomic bomb brought an empty victory but it resulted for the time being in destroying the soul of Japan. What has happened to the soul of the destroying nation is yet too early to see.
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Education without courage is like a wax statue - beautiful to look at but bound to melt at the first touch of a hot stuff.
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Freedom from all attachment is the realization of God as Truth.
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If the circulation of blood theory could not have been discovered without vivisection, the human kind could well have done without it.
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Untouchability is an error of long standing.
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The purification required is not of untouchables but of the so-called superior castes.
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It only confirms me in my belief that there is no Swaraj without a settlement with the Mussalmans.
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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
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The elephant needs a thousand times more food than the ant but that is not an indication of inequality.
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Social service that savours of patronage is not service.
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If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide.