Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Non-cooperation enables us to show that in everything that matters we can be independent of the Government.
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To a starving man, God can only appear in the form of bread.
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Those with the greatest awareness have the greatest nightmares.
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You can't shake hands with a closed fist.
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What you feel and how you react to something is always up to you. There may be a "normal" or a common way to react to different things. But that's mostly just all it is.
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Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.
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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 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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I claim to represent all the cultures, for my religion, whatever it may be called, demands the fulfillment of all the cultures.
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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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Dharma is that which is enjoined by the holy books, followed by the sages, interpreted by the learned and which appeals to the heart.
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Why, of all places in Johannesburg, the Indian location should be chosen for dumping down all kaffirs of the town, passes my comprehension. Of course, under my suggestion, the Town Council must withdraw the Kaffirs from the Location. About this mixing of the Kaffirs with the Indians I must confess I feel most strongly. I think it is very unfair to the Indian population, and it is an undue tax on even the proverbial patience of my countrymen.
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If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.
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Unity among the different races and the different religions of India is indispensable to the birth of national life.
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Faith is like the Himalaya mountains which cannot possibly change.
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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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Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal.
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The Gita distinguishes between the powers of light and darkness and demonstrates their incompatibility.
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Self-suppression is often necessary in the interest of truth and nonviolence.
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Apparently, I've acted like a terrorist. But I'm not a terrorist.
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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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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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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.
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Real power does not consist in the ability to inflict capital punishment upon the subjects, but in the will and the ability to protect the subjects against the world.