Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The central fact of Hinduism is cow protection.
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Behind my non-cooperation there is always the keenest desire to cooperate on the slightest pretext even with the worst of opponents. To me, a very imperfect mortal, ever in need of God's grace, no one is beyond redemption.
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A satyagrahi is nothing if not instinctively law-abiding.
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It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their armlessness into the central means for deliverance.
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A person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see his goal; he sees only his opposition and the obstacles before him.
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Truthful movements spontaneously attract to themselves all manner of pure and disinterested help.
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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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We cannot be speakers who do not listen. But neither can we be listeners who do not speak.
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If we are true servants of the masses, we would take pride in spinning for their sake.
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Prayer is a sign of repentance, a desire to become better, purer.
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I cannot imagine anything nobler or more national than that for, say, one hour in the day we should all do the labor the poor must do, and thus identify ourselves with them and through them, with all mankind.
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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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My love of nationalism is that my country may become free, and if need be, the whole of the country die, so that the human race may live.
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Of all the animal creations of God, main is the only animal who has been created in order that he may know his Maker. Man's aim is life is not therefore to add from day to day to his material prospects and to his material possessions, but his predominant calling is, from day to day to come nearer to his own Maker.
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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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As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books.
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Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers.
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If we would be pure, if we would save Hinduism, we must rid ourselves of this poison of enforced widowhood.
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Truth is one, paths are many.
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Prayer is the only means of bringing about orderliness and peace and repose in our daily acts.
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If we want to cultivate a true spirit of democracy we cannot afford to be intolerant. Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
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The purification required is not of untouchables but of the so-called superior castes.
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I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest good of the greatest number. The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all.
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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.