Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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A devotee of Rama may be said to be the same as the steadfast one (sthitaprajnya) of the Gita.
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If everybody lives by the sweat of his brow, the earth will become a paradise.
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Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.
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My idea of village SWARAJ is that is a complete republic, independent of its neighbors for its own vital wants, and yet interdependent for many others which dependence is a necessity.
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To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice.
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If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the present.
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Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing letters, etc.
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India is essentially a karmabhumi (land of duty) in contradistinction to bhogabhumi (land of enjoyment).
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A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.
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A satyagrahi is dead to his body even before the enemy attempts to kill him.
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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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Nowhere in the world would you find such skeletons of cows and bullocks as you do in our cow-worshipping India.
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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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I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people.
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Your action expresses your priorities.
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A man's true wealth hereafter is the good he has done to his fellowmen.
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The renunciation of the Gita is the acid test of faith.
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The use of soul-force for turning stones into bread would have been considered, as it is still considered, as black magic.
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The real love is to love them that hate you, to love your neighbor even though you distrust him.
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If I was to be their real teacher and guardian, I must touch their hearts, I must share their joys and sorrows, I must help them to solve the problems that faced them, and I must take along the right channel the surging aspirations of their youth.
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Far more indispensable then food for the physical body is spiritual nourishment for the soul. One can do without food for a considerable time, but a man of the spirit cannot exist for a single second without spiritual nourishment.
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The Vedas are as indefinable as God and Hinduism.
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Religion is the tie that binds one to one's Creator, and whilst the body perishes, as it has to, religion persists even after death.
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Without an unreserved surrender to His grace, complete mastery over thoughts is impossible.