Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust.
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I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
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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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To say that God permits evil in the world may not be pleasing to the ear. But if He is held responsible for the good, it follows that He has to be responsible for the evil too.
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An India free from exploitation from within and without must prosper with astonishing rapidity.
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Waiting on God means increasing purity.
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I find that we are all such sinners that it is better to leave the judging to God.
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Ahimsa is not a matter of mere dietetics: it transcends it.
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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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Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes.
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I have always held that social justice, even to the least the lowliest, is impossible of attainment by force.
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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.
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The sanyasa of the Gita will not tolerate complete cessation of activity.
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That prince is acceptable to me who becomes a prince among his people's servants.
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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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The real test of nonviolence lies in its being brought in contact with those who have contempt for it.
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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.
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Religion should be dearer than life itself.
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If I was to be their real teacher and guardian, I must touch their hearts, I must share their joys and sorrows, I must help them to solve the problems that faced them, and I must take along the right channel the surging aspirations of their youth.
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Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation.
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He who runs may see that opium and such other intoxicants and narcotics stupefy a man's soul and reduce him to a level lower than that of beasts.
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The time is fast coming when politicians will cease to fear the religion of humanity and humanitarians will find entrance into political life indispensable for full service.
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Our struggle consists in showing that our nonviolence is neither a cloak to hide our violence or hatred, nor a preparation for violence in the near or distant future.
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Self-restraint is the very keystone of the ethics of vow-taking.