Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.
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Swaraj will favour Hinduism no more than Islam, nor Islam more than Hinduism.
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An India awakened and free has a message of peace and goodwill to a groaning world.
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A full and candid admission of one's mistakes should make proof against its repetition.
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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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The devotee of truth is often obliged to grope in the dark.
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There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid.
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Undoubtedly, prayer requires a living faith in God. Successful satyagraha is inconceivable without that faith.
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The satyagrahi strives to reach reason through the heart. The method of reaching the heart is to awaken public opinion.
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It is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others' religions as we would have them respect our own, a friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.
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It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to speak impromptu. I hesitated whenever I had to face strange audiences and avoided making a speech whenever I could. Even today I do not think I could or would even be inclined to keep a meeting of friends engaged in idle talk.
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God is that indefinable something which we all feel but which we do not know.
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No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred.
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The golden rule to apply in all such cases is resolutely to refuse to have what millions cannot.
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Rama Nama should come from the heart. In that event, Rama Nama could become an effective remedy against all ailments. A man who believes in Rama Nama would not make a fetish of the body but would regard it as a means of serving God. And for making it into a fit instrument for that purpose, Rama Nama is the sovereign means. To install Rama Nama in the heart requires infinite patience. It might even take ages. But the effort is worthwhile. Rama Nama cannot come from the heart unless one has cultivated the virtues of truth, honesty and purity within and without.
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I believe that just as everyone inherits a particular form so does he inherit the particular characteristics and qualities of his progenitors, and to make this admission is to conserve one's energy.
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Political power means the capacity to regulate national life through national representatives.
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[It] is impossible for us to establish a living vital connection with the masses unless we will work for them, through them and in their midst, not as their patrons but as their servants.
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Self-restraint is the very keystone of the ethics of vow-taking.
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A true man of piety will consider himself a sinner and, therefore, untouchable.
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The very first step in nonviolence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance, loving kindness.
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A true Brahmachari will not even dream of satisfying the fleshly appetite.
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It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion toward our fellow creatures.
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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.