Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Only living things bring living joy to the soul and must elevate it.
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Kashmir is the real test of secularism in India.
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The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall see Truth in fragment and from different angles of vision.
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It is better to resist oppression by violent means than to submit, but it is best of all to resist by nonviolent means.
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A satyagrahi exhausts all other means before he resorts to satyagraha.
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I do not want my house to be rounded by walls and my windows to be closed to other cultures. I wish to become familiar with the culture of lands as much as possible but I will not permit them to affect me or shake me from my own status.
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I must declare that it is better for India do discard violence altogether even for defending her borders.
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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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The quest of Truth involves tapas-self-suffering-sometimes even unto death.
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Coal is not dear for the coal-miner who can use it there and then, nor is khadi dear for the villager who manufactures his own khadi.
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Contraceptives are an insult to womanhood.
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Self-restraint is the very keystone of the ethics of vow-taking.
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I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.
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Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help.
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Love and exclusive possession can never go together.
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Self-suppression is often necessary in the interest of truth and nonviolence.
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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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A pacifism which can see the cruelties only of occasional military warfare and is blind to the continuous cruelties of our social system is worthless.
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With every true friendship we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests. Thought by thought and act by act, with every breath we build more firmly the kingdom of non-violence that is the true home of the spirit of humanity.
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I have not conceived my mission to be that of a knight-errant wandering everywhere to deliver people from difficult situations. My humble occupation has been to show people how they can solve their own difficulties.
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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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The greatness of a person lies in his heart, not in his head; that is intellect.
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There is a vital connection between satyagraha and charkha, and the more I find that belief challenged, the more I am confirmed in it.
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I hold too that whatever may be true of other countries, a bloody revolution will not succeed in India.