Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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When the panchayat raj is established, public opinion will do what violence can never do.
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I find a solace a in the Bhagavadgita and Upanishads that I miss even in the Sermon on the Mount.
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Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
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What you feel and how you react to something is always up to you. There may be a "normal" or a common way to react to different things. But that's mostly just all it is.
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Waiting on God means increasing purity.
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My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all embracing. The conception of my patriotism is nothing if it is not always, in every case, without exception, consistent with the broadest good of humanity at large.
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I regard untouchability as such a grave sin as to warrant divine chastisement.
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Healthy, well-informed, balanced criticism is the ozone of public life.
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The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.
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It will profit you nothing to remember old wrongs and nurse old enmities.
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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 cow is the purest type of sub-human life.
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The purification required is not of untouchables but of the so-called superior castes.
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Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence.
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Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
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The satyagrahi general has to obey his inner voice, for over and above the situation outside he examines himself constantly and listens to the dictates of the inner self.
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Between the two, the nationalist and the imperialist, there is no meeting ground.
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I believe that a party wishing equality for India does exist in Britain. But it is an insignificant minority, and while I honour and like their opinion I cannot be enthused over it, for I know that those who shape policy and dominate are otherwise inclined. For me, therefore, it is only the Secretary of State who counts.
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Let our first act each morning be the following resolve: I shall not fear anyone on Earth. I shall fear only God.
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High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship.
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We cannot be speakers who do not listen. But neither can we be listeners who do not speak.
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It was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it.
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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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A man who is intentionally unarmed relies upon the Unseen Force called God by poets, but called the Unknown by scientists.