Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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 anekantavada is the result of the twin doctrines of satya and ahimsa.
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A soldier fights with an irresistible strength when he has blown up his bridges and burnt his boats. Even so, it is with a soldier of ahimsa.
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If you Christians acted more like your Christ, the world would be a better place.
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If we are to stand the final heat of the battle, we must learn to stand our ground in the face of cavalry or baton charges and allow ourselves to be trampled under horses' hooves, or be bruised with baton charges.
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As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
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Ahimsa and love are one and the same thing.
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I isolate this non-co-operation from Sinn Feinism, for it is so conceived as to be incapable of being offered side by side with violence.
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A religion cannot be sustained by the number of its lip-followers denying in their lives its tenets.
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Of what avail is my love if it be only so long as I trust my friend?
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I have not hesitated to call the system of Government under which we are labouring 'satanic' and I withdraw naught out of it.
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'If I had power and could legislate, I should certainly stop all proselytizing. For Hindu households, the advent of a missionary has meant the disruption of the family, coming in the wake of change of dress, manners, language, food and drink.'
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[I]t seems to me as clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime.
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A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification.
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Men of stainless character and self purification will easily inspire confidence and automatically purify the atmosphere around them.
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It is not a mistake to commit a mistake, for no one commits a mistake knowing it to be one. But it is a mistake not to correct the mistake after knowing it to be one. If you are afraid of committing a mistake, you are afraid of doing anything at all. You will correct your mistakes whenever you find them.
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Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
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Truth and nonviolence are both the means and the end, and given the right type of men, the legislatures can be the means of achieving the concrete pursuit of truth and nonviolence.
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As the elephant is powerless to think in the terms of the ant, in spite of the best intentions in the world, even so is the Englishman powerless to think in the terms of, or legislate for, the Indian.
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An India free from exploitation from within and without must prosper with astonishing rapidity.
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A nonviolent person's life is always at the disposal of him who would take it.
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Hinduism is like the Ganga, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga it is beneficent in its total effect. It takes a provincial form in every province, but the inner substance is retained everywhere.
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Surely, conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows His creatures' hearts.
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Do not worry about what others are doing! Each of us should turn the searchlight inward and purify his or her own heart as much as possible.