Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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To know music is to transfer it to life.
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Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him.
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If Hinduism teaches hatred of Islam or of non-Hindus, it is doomed to destruction.
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The very essence of democracy is that every person represents all the varied interests which compose the nation.
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I cannot be subservient anywhere.
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Waiting on God means increasing purity.
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The Congress fights not with violent but with nonviolent means, however imperfect, however crude the nonviolence may be.
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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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Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal.
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The satyagrahi general has to obey his inner voice, for over and above the situation outside he examines himself constantly and listens to the dictates of the inner self.
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My ahimsa is my own. I am not able to accept in its entirety the doctrine of non-killing of animals.
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Temple going is for the purification of the soul.
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There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid.
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Out of the performance of duties flow rights, and those that knew and performed their duties came naturally by their rights.
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Satyagraha as conceived by me is a science in the making.
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I consider Western Christianity in its practical working a negation of Christ's Christianity.
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God is that indefinable something which we all feel but which we do not know.
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Without satyagraha carried out in the proper spirit, there is no victory, no Swaraj.
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Indian nationalism is not exclusive, nor aggressive, nor destructive.
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A true Brahmachari will not even dream of satisfying the fleshly appetite.
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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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Khaddar does not displace a single cottage industry.
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I may have become Christian, were it not for Christians.
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My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control.