Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts. A thoughtless word hardly ever escaped my tongue or pen. Experience has taught me that silence is part of the spiritual discipline of a votary of truth. We find so many people impatient to talk. All this talking can hardly be said to be of any benefit to the world. It is so much waste of time. My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.
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Urbanization in India is a slow but sure death for her villages and villagers.
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The consumption of vegetables involves himsa, but I cannot give them up.
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The rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society.
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Vegetarians should have that moral basis-that a man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows.
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Truth is as hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.
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To my mind the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.
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Without action, you aren't going anywhere.
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The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth.
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My only sanction is the love and affection in which you hold me. But it has its weaknesses, as it has its strengths.
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If you want to play your part in the world's affairs, you must refuse to deck yourselves for pleasing man.
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Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.
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My personal religion enables me to serve my countrymen without hurting the English or, for that matter, anybody else.
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Close the day with prayer so that you may have a peaceful night free from dreams and nightmares.
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There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace.
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Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion.
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Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy.
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It would conduce to national progress and save a great deal of time and trouble if we cultivated the habit of never supporting the resolutions either by speaking or voting for them if we had not either the intention or the ability to carry them out.
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Well, India is a country of nonsense.
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No action which is not voluntary can be called moral.
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If non-violence is the Law of our being, the future is with Women.
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If there was any teacher in the world who insisted upon the inexorable law of cause and effect, it was Gautam, and yet my friends, the Buddhists outside India, would, if they could, avoid the effects of their own acts.
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The cow is the purest type of sub-human life.
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Religion is no test of nationality, but a personal matter between man and his God.