Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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It needs more than a heart of oak to shed all fear except the fear of God.
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Patience means self-suffering.
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One's everyday life is never capable of being separated from his spiritual being.
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Every man has an equal right to the necessaries of life even as birds and beasts have.
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Means are not to be distinguished from ends. If violent means are used, there will be bad results.
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Calling them devadasis we insult God Himself in the name of religion.
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Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking, or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity; to me, the female sex is not the weaker sex.
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If I know Hinduism at all, it is essentially inclusive and ever-growing, ever-responsive. It gives the freest scope for imagination, speculation and reason.
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I may fight the British ruler, but I do not hate the English or their language. In fact, I appreciate their literary treasures.
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Britain's success in the exploitation of non-European races raised the ambition of Bismarck and later Mussolini and others.
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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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Self-defense...is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation.
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But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.
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The commerce between India and Africa will be of ideas and services, not of the manufactured goods against raw materials after the fashion of the Western exploiters.
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The strength of the soul can defy a whole world in arms against it.
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There is no one without faults, not even men of God. They are men of God not because they are faultless, but because they know their faults, they strive against them, they do not hide them, and are ever ready to correct themselves.
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All religions enjoined worship of the One God who is all-pervasive. He is present even in a drop of water or in a tiny speck of dust.
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My religion has no geographical limits.
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He who has a living faith in God will not do evil deeds with name of God on his lips.
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Education is the basic tool for the development of consciousness and the reconstitution of society.
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The nonviolent man automatically becomes a servant of God.
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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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Violent nationalism, otherwise known as imperialism, is a curse.
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The quest of Truth involves tapas-self-suffering-sometimes even unto death.