Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
-
My swadeshi chiefly centers round the handspun khaddar and extends to everything that can be and is produced in India.
-
No one can ride on the back of a man unless it is bent.
-
Begin with duties of a man and rights will follow as spring follows winter.
-
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.
-
I know that Buddhism is to Hinduism what Protestantism is to Roman Catholicism, only in a much stronger light, to a much greater degree.
-
Waiting on God means increasing purity.
-
Undoubtedly, prayer requires a living faith in God. Successful satyagraha is inconceivable without that faith.
-
I love Christianity, Islam and many other faiths - through Hinduism.
-
Man is sent into the world to perform his duty even at the cost of his life.
-
Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
-
I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the culture of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.
-
Hinduism is not a codified religion.
-
With my meager knowledge of my own religion I do not want to belong to any religious body.
-
Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.
-
History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force.
-
The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification.
-
Love is no love which asks for a return.
-
It was Ba's inspiration which helped me reach the heights of my inner self. She was my priceless jewel.
-
A vow imparts stability, ballast and firmness to one's character.
-
Labour is a great leveler of all distinctions.
-
Kashmir is the real test of secularism in India.
-
Even a little untruth destroys a man, as a drop of poison ruins milk.
-
A satyagrahi has no other stay but God, and he who has any other stay or depends on any other help cannot offer satyagraha.
-
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.