Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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My Hinduism must be a very poor thing if it cannot flourish even under the most adverse influence.
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With my meager knowledge of my own religion I do not want to belong to any religious body.
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Was it that you wanted to pull my leg by transporting me to the frozen Himalayan heights of 'mahatmaship' and claiming for yourself absolution from having to follow my precepts?
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Ahimsa and love are one and the same thing.
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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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Self-restraint is the very keystone of the ethics of vow-taking.
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A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.
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A vow imparts stability, ballast and firmness to one's character.
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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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As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books.
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Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law.
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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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The villagers want bread-not butter-and disciplined work, some work that will supplement their agricultural avocations which do not go on for all the 12 months.
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Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads, so long as we reach the same goal. Wherein is the cause for quarreling?
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It is better to resist oppression by violent means than to submit, but it is best of all to resist by nonviolent means.
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The world is weary of hate. We see the fatigue overcoming the Western nations.
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An India free from exploitation from within and without must prosper with astonishing rapidity.
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Even a little untruth destroys a man, as a drop of poison ruins milk.
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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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War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing.
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There is no god higher than truth.
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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.
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Heroes are made in the hour of defeat.
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The pilgrimage to Swaraj is a painful climb.