Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Undoubtedly, prayer requires a living faith in God. Successful satyagraha is inconceivable without that faith.
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You can't shake hands with a closed fist.
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If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide.
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The cause is everything. Those even who are dearest to us must be shunted for the sake of the cause.
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My own experience but confirms the opinion that the Musalman as a rule is a bully, and the Hindu as rule is a coward.
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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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A vow imparts stability, ballast and firmness to one's character.
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To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that being but with him, the whole world.
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Economic equality is the master-key to nonviolent independence.
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Nanda broke down every barrier and won his way to freedom not by brag, not by bluster, but by the purest form of self-suffering.
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Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.
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The path of Truth is as narrow as it is straight. Even so is that of ahimsa.
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I do not want my house to be rounded by walls and my windows to be closed to other cultures. I wish to become familiar with the culture of lands as much as possible but I will not permit them to affect me or shake me from my own status.
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There are no good-byes, where ever you'll be, you'll be in my heart.
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The measure of a society can be how well its people treat its animals.
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Labour is a great leveler of all distinctions.
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The Charkha in the hands of a poor widow brings a paltry price to her, in the hands of Jawaharlal; it is an instrument of India's freedom.
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A man who is intentionally unarmed relies upon the Unseen Force called God by poets, but called the Unknown by scientists.
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Ahimsa and love are one and the same thing.
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Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy.
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An India free from exploitation from within and without must prosper with astonishing rapidity.
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I find a solace a in the Bhagavadgita and Upanishads that I miss even in the Sermon on the Mount.
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The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.
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Let our first act each morning be the following resolve: I shall not fear anyone on Earth. I shall fear only God.