Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Recall the face of the poorest and weakest man you have seen, and ask yourself if this step you contemplate is going to be any use to him.
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Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help.
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Untouchability is a terrible reality.
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Tolstoy's so-called inconsistencies were a sign of his development and his passionate regard for truth.
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Real education consists in drawing the best out of yourself.
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Unity, to be real, must stand the severest strain without breaking.
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Let the Jews who claim to be the chosen race prove their title by choosing the way of non-violence for vindicating their position on earth. Every country is their home, including Palestine, not by aggression but by loving service.
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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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I recall having read, at the brothers' instance, Madame Blavatsky's Key to Theosophy. This book stimulated in me the desire to read books on Hinduism, and disabused me of the notion fostered by the missionaries that Hinduism was rife with superstition.
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Freedom of a nation cannot be won by solitary acts of heroism though they may be of the true type, never by heroism so called.
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Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
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It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves.
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For me the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect.
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If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek. If leaving duties unperformed we run after rights, they will escape us like a will-o'-the-wisp.
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[It] is impossible for us to establish a living vital connection with the masses unless we will work for them, through them and in their midst, not as their patrons but as their servants.
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Education without courage is like a wax statue - beautiful to look at but bound to melt at the first touch of a hot stuff.
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We dare not enter the kingdom of liberty with mere life-homage to truth and nonviolence.
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To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that being but with him, the whole world.
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If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British.
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Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life.
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Every truth is self-acting and possesses inherent strength.
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Seek ye first the Charkha and its concomitants and everything else will be added unto you.
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When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand.
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The very essence of democracy is that every person represents all the varied interests which compose the nation.