Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
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Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads, so long as we reach the same goal. Wherein is the cause for quarreling?
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Truth, purity, self-control, firmness, fearlessness, humility, unity, peace, and renunciation - these are the inherent qualities of a civil resister.
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Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a free agent, and knows no distinction between virtue and vice, good and evil. Man, being a free agent, knows these distinctions, and when he follows his higher nature, shows himself far superior to the brute, but when he follows his baser nature can show himself lower than the brute.
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Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. Violence is any day preferable to impotence. There is hope for a violent man to become non-violent. There is no such hope for the impotent.
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I have been repeating over and over again that he who cannot protect himself or his nearest and dearest or their honour by non-violently facing death may and ought to do so by violently dealing with the oppressor. He who can do neither of the two is a burden. He has no business to be the head of a family. He must either hide himself, or must rest content to live for ever in helplessness and be prepared to crawl like a worm at the bidding of a bully.
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As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books.
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You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature.
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A satyagrahi is nothing if not instinctively law-abiding.
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If everybody lives by the sweat of his brow, the earth will become a paradise.
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If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be.
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Religion should be dearer than life itself.
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Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.
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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.
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I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.
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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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Mass illiteracy is India's sin and shame and must be liquidated.
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You can't hurt me without my permission.
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Only living things bring living joy to the soul and must elevate it.
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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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Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise.
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"All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense.
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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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The elephant needs a thousand times more food than the ant but that is not an indication of inequality.