Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I believe that the yarn we spin is capable of mending the broken warp and woof of our life!
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To die without killing is the badge of a satyagrahi.
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The cow to me is a sermon on pity.
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Without satyagraha carried out in the proper spirit, there is no victory, no Swaraj.
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To a starving man, God can only appear in the form of bread.
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The world is weary of hate. We see the fatigue overcoming the Western nations.
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The highest truth needs no communicating, for it is by its very nature self-propelling. It radiates its influence silently as the rose its fragrance without the intervention of a medium.
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When untouchability is rooted out, these distinctions will vanish and no one will consider himself superior to any other.
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If you think the world is all wrong, remember that it contains people like you.
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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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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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Untouchability is an error of long standing.
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Harijan service is a duty the caste Hindus owe to themselves.
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Being dissatisfied and properly dissatisfied with the husk of Hinduism, you are in danger of losing even the kernel, life itself.
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No effort is complete without prayer - without definite recognition that the best human endeavor is of no effect if it has not God's blessing behind it.
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A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed.
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No labour is too mean for one who wants to earn an honest penny.
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Economics that hurt the moral well-being of an individual or a nation are immoral and, therefore, sinful.
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I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him. I am prepared to sacrifice the things dearest to me in pursuit of this quest. Even if the sacrifice demanded my very life, I hope I may be prepared to give it.
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Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants.
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Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.
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Self-sacrifice of one innocent man is a million times more potent than the sacrifice of a million men who die in the act of killing others.
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The Bhagavadgita is a gospel of non-cooperation between the forces of darkness and those of light.
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When a slave begins to take pride in his fetters and hugs them like precious ornaments, the triumph of the slave-owner is complete.