Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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 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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Khaddar does not displace a single cottage industry.
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Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use.
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Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.
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Truth should be the very breath of our life. When once this state in the pilgrim's progress is reached, all other rules of correct living will come without any effort, and obedience to them will be instinctive.
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Remember there is always a limit to self-indulgence, none to restraint... Civilization , in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication but in the deliberate and voluntary restriction of wants. This alone promotes real happiness and contentment , and increases the capacity for service.
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Healthy, well-informed, balanced criticism is the ozone of public life.
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To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior.
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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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I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them, and while I hold by my own religion, I should hold other religions as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we were Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu; but our innermost prayer should be that a Hindu should become a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, and a Christian a better Christian.
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Self-restraint is the very keystone of the ethics of vow-taking.
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If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef-tea or mutton, even under medical advice, I would prefer death.
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A vow imparts stability, ballast and firmness to one's character.
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A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him.
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Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal.
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My personal religion enables me to serve my countrymen without hurting the English or, for that matter, anybody else.
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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.
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The English have taught us that we were not one nation before and that it will reaquire centuries before we become one nation. This is without foundation. We were one nation before they came to India. One thought inspired us. Our mode of life was the same. It was because we were one nation that they were able to establish one kingdom.
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A soldier fights with an irresistible strength when he has blown up his bridges and burnt his boats. Even so, it is with a soldier of ahimsa.
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My experience teaches me that truth can never be propagated by doing violence.
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Faith is like the Himalaya mountains which cannot possibly change.
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Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes.
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Conservation of national sanitation is Swaraj work and it may not be postponed for a single day on any consideration whatsoever.