Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Responsibility will mellow and sober the youth and prepare them, for the burden they must discharge.
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The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else.
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I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts. A thoughtless word hardly ever escaped my tongue or pen. Experience has taught me that silence is part of the spiritual discipline of a votary of truth. We find so many people impatient to talk. All this talking can hardly be said to be of any benefit to the world. It is so much waste of time. My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.
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Religion to be true must satisfy what may be termed humanitarian economics, that is, where the income and the expenditure balance each other.
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Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for nonviolence.
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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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Real education consists in drawing the best out of yourself.
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There is not a moment when I do not feel the presence of a Witness whose eye misses nothing and with whom I strive to keep in tune.
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My conception of freedom is no narrow conception. It is co-extensive with the freedom of man in all his majesty.
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Mankind is one, seeing that all are equally subject to the moral law. All men are equal in God's eyes.
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It's easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone.
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If untouchability lives, Hinduism perishes and even India perishes, but if untouchability is eradicated from the Hindu heart, root and branch, then Hinduism has a definite message for the world.
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It is a sad thing that our schoolboys look upon manual labour with disfavour, if not contempt.
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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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Hesitating to act because the whole vision might not be achieved, or because others do not yet share it, is an attitude that only hinders progress.
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Love and exclusive possession can never go together.
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Truth is what the voice within tells you.
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Vehement writing, even if it is charged with truth, is no answer to violent action.
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Under my plan, the state will be there to carry out the will of the people, not to dictate to them or to force them to do its will.
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A satyagrahi, whilst he is ever ready to fight, must be equally eager for peace.
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If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.
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To me Truth is God and there is no way to find Truth except the way of nonviolence.
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No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.
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Far more indispensable then food for the physical body is spiritual nourishment for the soul. One can do without food for a considerable time, but a man of the spirit cannot exist for a single second without spiritual nourishment.