Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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If there was any teacher in the world who insisted upon the inexorable law of cause and effect, it was Gautam, and yet my friends, the Buddhists outside India, would, if they could, avoid the effects of their own acts.
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The elephant needs a thousand times more food than the ant but that is not an indication of inequality.
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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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Mass illiteracy is India's sin and shame and must be liquidated.
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Religion should be dearer than life itself.
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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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A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women.
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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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Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path.
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The attainment of national independence is to me a search for truth.
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If Hinduism teaches hatred of Islam or of non-Hindus, it is doomed to destruction.
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Responsibility will mellow and sober the youth and prepare them, for the burden they must discharge.
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Out of the performance of duties flow rights, and those that knew and performed their duties came naturally by their rights.
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Truth is what the voice within tells you.
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I regard the constituent assembly as the substitute ofsatyagraha. It is constructive satyagraha.
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Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law.
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Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life.
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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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National education to be truly national must reflect the national condition for the time being.
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The cow is the purest type of sub-human life.
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For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of Englishmen.
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The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.
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A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.
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I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability which is amazing and he seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed.