Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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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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National education to be truly national must reflect the national condition for the time being.
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Nanda broke down every barrier and won his way to freedom not by brag, not by bluster, but by the purest form of self-suffering.
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No man loses his freedom except through his own weakness.
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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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Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.
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The very essence of democracy is that every person represents all the varied interests which compose the nation.
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In an atmosphere of ahimsa, one has no scope to put his ahimsa to the test. It can be tested only in the face of himsa.
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A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all.
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The greatness of a person lies in his heart, not in his head; that is intellect.
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I find a solace a in the Bhagavadgita and Upanishads that I miss even in the Sermon on the Mount.
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I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Eternal and become merely a lump of clay in the Potter's divine hands so that my service may become more certain because uninterrupted by the baser self in me.
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Out of the performance of duties flow rights, and those that knew and performed their duties came naturally by their rights.
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The British Government in India constitutes a struggle between modern civilization, which is the Kingdom of Satan, and the ancient civilization, which is the Kingdom of God.
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I do believe that where there is a choice between cowardice and non-violence I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done, had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908, whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defended me, I told him that it was his duty to defend me even by using violence.
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If Hinduism teaches hatred of Islam or of non-Hindus, it is doomed to destruction.
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It was Ba's inspiration which helped me reach the heights of my inner self. She was my priceless jewel.
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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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Political power means the capacity to regulate national life through national representatives.
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Truth is what the voice within tells you.
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Man will ever remain imperfect, and it will always be his part to try to be perfect.
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A true Brahmachari will not even dream of satisfying the fleshly appetite.
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Kashmir is the real test of secularism in India.