Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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My religion forbids me to belittle or disregard other cultures, as it insists, under pain of civil suicide, upon imbibing and living my own.
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I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no dis-advantage whatever. In fact I can see that, on the contrary, it has been all to my advantage.
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No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing.
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Nonviolence in politics is a new weapon in the process of evolution; its vast possibilities are yet unexplored.
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Labour is a great leveler of all distinctions.
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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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Calling them devadasis we insult God Himself in the name of religion.
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Self-restraint is the very keystone of the ethics of vow-taking.
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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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If you Christians acted more like your Christ, the world would be a better place.
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I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.
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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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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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The prince and the peasant will not be equalized by cutting off the prince's head.
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One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.
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In a strictly scientific sense God is at the bottom of both good and evil.
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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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Swaraj means even under dominion status a capacity to declare independence at will.
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Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect.
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You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.
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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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Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses.
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It does not require money to be neat, clean and dignified.
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Healthy, well-informed, balanced criticism is the ozone of public life.