Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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It is pleasant that there will be no religions in heaven.
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You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
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If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.
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Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law will work just as the law of gravitation works whether we accept it or not.
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My religion teaches me to love all equally.
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All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
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I may be a despicable person, but when Truth speaks through me I am invincible.
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We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
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Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.
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Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
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It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us. This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good heart whatever they might have to say.
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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
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Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
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Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.
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A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
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There is no love where there is no will.
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The science of war leads one to dictatorship, pure and simple. The science of non-violence alone can lead one to pure democracy. Power based on love is thousand times more effective and permanent than power derived from fear of punishment. It is a blasphemy to say non-violence can be practiced only by individuals and never by nations which are composed of individuals. The nearest approach to purest anarchy would be a democracy based on non-violence. A society organized and run on the basis of complete non-violence would be the purest anarchy.
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The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy. That State is the best governed which is governed the least.
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Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
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I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
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Muslims must realize and admit the wrongs perpetrated under the Islamic rule.
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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.