Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The prince and the peasant will not be equalized by cutting off the prince's head.
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No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing.
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If we are to reach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with children; and if they will grow up in their natural innocence, we won't have to struggle; we won't have to pass fruitless idle resolutions, but we shall go from love to love and peace to peace, until at last all the corners of the world are covered with that peace and love for which consciously or unconsciously the whole world is hungering.
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True art must be evidence of happiness, contentment and purity of its authors.
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Begin with duties of a man and rights will follow as spring follows winter.
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The removal of untouchability is a question of the purification of Hinduism.
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Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for nonviolence.
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[I]t seems to me as clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime.
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Let the Jews who claim to be the chosen race prove their title by choosing the way of non-violence for vindicating their position on earth. Every country is their home, including Palestine, not by aggression but by loving service.
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Recall the face of the poorest and weakest man you have seen, and ask yourself if this step you contemplate is going to be any use to him.
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Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realise what a tremendous advantage she has over man.
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If fighting for the legislatures meant a sacrifice of truth and nonviolence, democracy would not be worth a moment's purchase.
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My swadeshi chiefly centers round the handspun khaddar and extends to everything that can be and is produced in India.
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Mankind is one, seeing that all are equally subject to the moral law. All men are equal in God's eyes.
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'If I had power and could legislate, I should certainly stop all proselytizing. For Hindu households, the advent of a missionary has meant the disruption of the family, coming in the wake of change of dress, manners, language, food and drink.'
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Religion to be true must satisfy what may be termed humanitarian economics, that is, where the income and the expenditure balance each other.
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A truly nonviolent man would never live to tell the tale of atrocities. He would have laid down his life on the spot in non-violent resistance.
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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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India is essentially a karmabhumi (land of duty) in contradistinction to bhogabhumi (land of enjoyment).
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Marriage is not an act of services. It is a comfort man or woman seeks for himself or herself.
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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.
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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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Complete independence will be complete only to the extent of our approach in practice to truth and nonviolence.
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Swaraj will favour Hinduism no more than Islam, nor Islam more than Hinduism.