Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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True love is boundless like the ocean and, swelling within one, spreads itself out and, crossing all boundaries and frontiers, envelops the whole world.
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What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.
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Some form of common worship and a common place of worship appear to be a human necessity.
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I am not conscious of a single experience throughout my three months' stay in England and Europe that made me feel that after all East is East and West is West. On the contrary, I have been convinced more than ever that human nature is much the same, no matter under what clime it flourishes, and that if you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold affection returned to you.
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If Swaraj is to be had by peaceful methods, it will only be attained by attention to every little detail of national life.
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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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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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Seeming failure is not of the law of satyagrahabut of incompetence of the satyagrahi by whatever cause induced.
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Freedom received though the efforts of others, however benevolent, cannot be retained when such effort is withdrawn.
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Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave.
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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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There is no such thing as 'Gandhism', and I do not want to leave any sect after me.
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Non-cooperation means refusal both to help the sinner in his sin and not to accept any help or gift from him till he has repented.
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If everybody lives by the sweat of his brow, the earth will become a paradise.
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To practice nonviolence in mundane matters is to know its true value.
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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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Untouchability, I hold, is a sin, if Bhagavadgita is one of our Divine Books.
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Like the watch, the heart needs the winding of purity, or the Dweller ceases to speak.
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Between the two, the nationalist and the imperialist, there is no meeting ground.
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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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There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.
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The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification.
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Active nonviolence of the brave puts to flight thieves, dacoits, murderers, and prepares an army of volunteers ready to sacrifice themselves in quelling riots, in extinguishing fires and feuds, and so on.
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After long study and experience, I have come to the conclusion that (1) all religions are true; (2) all religions have some error in them; (3) all religions are almost as dear to me as my own Hinduism, in as much as all human beings should be as dear to one as one's own close relatives.