Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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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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If you're going to be a bear, be a grizzly.
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Men like me feel that untouchability is no integral part of Hinduism, it is an excrescence.
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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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External fears cease of their own accord when once we have conquered these traitors within the camp.
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Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used.
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I regard untouchability as such a grave sin as to warrant divine chastisement.
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There is no such thing as 'Gandhism', and I do not want to leave any sect after me.
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Like the watch, the heart needs the winding of purity, or the Dweller ceases to speak.
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Nirvana is the utter extinction of all that is base in us, all that is vicious in us. Nirvana is not like the black, dead peace of the grave, but the living peace, the living happiness of a soul which is conscious of itself and conscious of having found its own abode in the heart of the Eternal.
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After long study and experience, I have come to the conclusion that (1) all religions are true; (2) all religions have some error in them; (3) all religions are almost as dear to me as my own Hinduism, in as much as all human beings should be as dear to one as one's own close relatives.
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Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts.
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I learned from Hussain how to be wronged and be a winner, I learnt from Hussain how to attain victory while being oppressed.
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Truth is as hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.
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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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To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.
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Exploitation and domination of one nation over another can have no place in a world striving to put an end to all war.
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Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly.
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Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.
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Active nonviolence of the brave puts to flight thieves, dacoits, murderers, and prepares an army of volunteers ready to sacrifice themselves in quelling riots, in extinguishing fires and feuds, and so on.
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India will not be a helpless partner in her own exploitation and foreign domination.
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The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth.
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A man with a grain of faith in God never loses hope, because he ever believes in the ultimate triumph of Truth.