Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books.
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A rabbit that runs away from the bull-terrier is not particularly non-violent.
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Solitude is a catalyst for innovation.
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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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Once Jesus had blazed the trail, his twelve disciples could carry on his mission without his presence.
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In this instance of the fire-arms, the Asiatic has been most improperly bracketed with the native. The British Indian does not need any such restrictions as are imposed by the Bill on the natives regarding the carrying of fire-arms. The prominent race can remain so by preventing the native from arming himself. Is there a slightest vestige of justification for so preventing the British Indian?
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If everybody lives by the sweat of his brow, the earth will become a paradise.
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Real education has to draw out the best from the boys and girls to be educated.
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To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice.
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I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.
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Truthful movements spontaneously attract to themselves all manner of pure and disinterested help.
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Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power.
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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.
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If you are left with only one piece of homespun,wear it with dignity.
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If you do what you enjoy doing you'll never have to work hard.
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Death is no fiend, he is the truest of friends. He delivers us from agony.
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We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime.
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Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.
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Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts.
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I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world. I believe that they are all God- given and I believe that they were necessary for the people to whom these religions were revealed. And I believe that if only we could all of us read the scriptures of the different faiths from the standpoints of the followers of these faiths, we should find that they were at bottom all one and were all helpful to one another.
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To see the universal and all – pervading Spirit of Truth face to face, one must be able to love the meanest of all creation as oneself.
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I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability which is amazing and he seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed.
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Religion is no test of nationality, but a personal matter between man and his God.
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It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.