Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Belief in one God is the cornerstone of all religions.
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If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British.
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Like the watch, the heart needs the winding of purity, or the Dweller ceases to speak.
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All religions enjoined worship of the One God who is all-pervasive. He is present even in a drop of water or in a tiny speck of dust.
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Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone.
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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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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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Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave.
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A burning passion coupled with absolute detachment is the key to all success.
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Enter with me into the sufferings, not only of the people of India but of the whole world. Nonviolence is a more active and real fight against wickedness than retaliation whose very nature is to increase wickedness. It is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.
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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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Freedom received though the efforts of others, however benevolent, cannot be retained when such effort is withdrawn.
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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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Repression does for a true man or a nation what fire does for gold.
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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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A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.
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I have had the hardihood to say that Swaraj could not be granted even by God.
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Let the content of Swaraj grow with the growth of national consciousness and aspirations.
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It is the law of love that rules mankind.
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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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We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean.
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Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.
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Make injustice visible.
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The sky may be overcast today with clouds, but a fervent prayer to God is enough to dispel them.