Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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Self-sacrifice of one innocent man is a million times more potent than the sacrifice of a million men who die in the act of killing others.
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The measure of a society can be how well its people treat its animals.
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A man or a woman who serves the country with all his or her heart stands on par with the tallest Congress-man.
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The woman has circumvented man in a variety of ways in her unconsciously subtle ways, as the man has vainly and equally consciously struggled to thwart the woman in gaining ascendancy over him.
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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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Seek ye first the Charkha and its concomitants and everything else will be added unto you.
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Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path.
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To know music is to transfer it to life.
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Just as a prayer may be merely a mechanical intonation as of a bird, so may a fast be a mere mechanical torture of the flesh.
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Every labourer is worthy of his hire. No country can produce thousands of unpaid whole-time workers.
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Every expression of truth has in it the seeds of propagation, even as the sun cannot hide its light.
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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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The Bhagavadgita is a gospel of non-cooperation between the forces of darkness and those of light.
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Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity...If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior...If non-violence is the law of our being, the future is with women.
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Behind my non-cooperation there is always the keenest desire to cooperate on the slightest pretext even with the worst of opponents. To me, a very imperfect mortal, ever in need of God's grace, no one is beyond redemption.
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What crimes, for which we condemn the Government as satanic, have not we been guilty of towards our own untouchable brethren?
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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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Khaddar does not displace a single cottage industry.
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When the wheel was accepted as part of the national flag, it was surely implied that the spinning wheel would hum in every household.
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There is no need of a teacher for those who know how to think.
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The world easily finds an honourable place for the magician who produces new and dazzling things.
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Economics that hurt the moral well-being of an individual or a nation are immoral and, therefore, sinful.
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Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.