Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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A religion cannot be sustained by the number of its lip-followers denying in their lives its tenets.
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A country that is governed by its national army can never be morally free and, therefore, its so-called weakest member can never rise to his full moral height.
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A burning passion coupled with absolute detachment is the key to all success.
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Love is no love which asks for a return.
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I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.
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Man is the center of a circle without a circumference, except the one he creates for himself.
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My anekantavada is the result of the twin doctrines of satya and ahimsa.
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A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience.
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A man's true wealth hereafter is the good he has done to his fellowmen.
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The only devils in the world are those running around in our own hearts - that is where the battle should be fought.
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To a starving man, God can only appear in the form of bread.
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We are merely instruments of the Almighty's will and therefore ignorant of what helps us forward and what acts as an impediment. We must thus rest satisfied with the knowledge only of the means and if these are pure, we can fearlessly leave the end to take care of itself.
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It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.
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The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.
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Even as satyagraha is a weapon unique of its kind and not one of the ordinary weapons used by people, so is Khadi, a unique article of commerce which will not, cannot, succeed on terms common to other articles.
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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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If you Christians acted more like your Christ, the world would be a better place.
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Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.
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A full and candid admission of one's mistakes should make proof against its repetition.
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I know that Buddhism is to Hinduism what Protestantism is to Roman Catholicism, only in a much stronger light, to a much greater degree.
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I hold too that whatever may be true of other countries, a bloody revolution will not succeed in India.
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There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it.
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I have no weapon but nonviolence.
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Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a free agent, and knows no distinction between virtue and vice, good and evil. Man, being a free agent, knows these distinctions, and when he follows his higher nature, shows himself far superior to the brute, but when he follows his baser nature can show himself lower than the brute.