Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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To a starving man, God can only appear in the form of bread.
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Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.
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In the characteristics of the perfected man of the Gita, I do not see any to correspond to physical warfare.
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Calling them devadasis we insult God Himself in the name of religion.
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Hinduism is not a codified religion.
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Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As the author of satyagraha I cannot, consistently with my profession, suppress the vital part of myself for the sake of being able to write on permissible subjects. ... It would be like dealing with the trunk without the head.
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My religion forbids me to belittle or disregard other cultures, as it insists, under pain of civil suicide, upon imbibing and living my own.
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Cow-slaughter and man-slaughter are in my opinion two sides of the same coin.
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I call the Lancashire trade immoral, because it was raised and is sustained on the ruin of millions of India's peasants.
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The world is weary of hate. We see the fatigue overcoming the Western nations.
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Self-suppression is often necessary in the interest of truth and nonviolence.
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Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the Europeans, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir whose occupation is hunting, and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with and, then, pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
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A Swaraj government means a government established by the free joint will of Hindus, Mussalmans and others.
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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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A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.
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Prayer presupposes faith. No prayer is in vain. Prayer is like any other action.
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The consumption of vegetables involves himsa, but I cannot give them up.
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Just as a prayer may be merely a mechanical intonation as of a bird, so may a fast be a mere mechanical torture of the flesh.
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The eternal duel between Ormuzd and Ahriman, God and Satan, is raging in my breast, which is one among their billion battlefields.
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Hinduism is a relentless pursuit of Truth. "Truth is God" and if today it has become moribund, inactive, irresponsive to growth, it is because we are fatigued; and as soon as the fatigue is over, Hinduism will burst upon the world with a brilliance perhaps unknown before.
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Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly.
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Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help.
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Love and exclusive possession can never go together.
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Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.