Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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National education to be truly national must reflect the national condition for the time being.
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Begin with duties of a man and rights will follow as spring follows winter.
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A man who is intentionally unarmed relies upon the Unseen Force called God by poets, but called the Unknown by scientists.
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I love Christianity, Islam and many other faiths - through Hinduism.
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It is not my purpose to attempt a real autobiography. 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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In this day of wonders no one will say that a thing or an idea is worthless because it is new. To say it is impossible because it is difficult is again not in consonance with the spirit of the age. Things undreamt of are daily being seen, the impossible is ever becoming possible.
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Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use.
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Tolstoy's so-called inconsistencies were a sign of his development and his passionate regard for truth.
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The consumption of vegetables involves himsa, but I cannot give them up.
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Responsibility will mellow and sober the youth and prepare them, for the burden they must discharge.
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When I see a cow, it is not an animal to eat, it is a poem of pity for me and I worship it and I shall defend its worship against the whole world.
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You can judge a society by the way it treats it's animals.
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My satyagrahi spirit tells me that I may not retaliate.
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Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses.
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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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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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Untouchability is a many-headed monster and forms, some of them so subtle as not to be easily detected.
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Cow-slaughter and man-slaughter are in my opinion two sides of the same coin.
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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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A samagra gramsevak must know everybody living in the village and render them such service as he possibly can.
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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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In battling against untouchability, and in dedicating myself to that battle, I have no less an ambition than to see a full regeneration of humanity.
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I know that Buddhism is to Hinduism what Protestantism is to Roman Catholicism, only in a much stronger light, to a much greater degree.
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Truth should be the very breath of our life. When once this state in the pilgrim's progress is reached, all other rules of correct living will come without any effort, and obedience to them will be instinctive.