Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Without action, you aren't going anywhere.
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Nonviolent defence presupposes recklessness about one's life and property.
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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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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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A man's true wealth hereafter is the good he has done to his fellowmen.
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I would far rather that India perished than that she won Her freedom at the sacrifice of truth.
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When I see a cow, it is not an animal to eat, it is a poem of pity for me and I worship it and I shall defend its worship against the whole world.
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What may appear as truth to one person will often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry the seeker. When there is honest effort, it will be realised that what appears to be different truths are like apparently different countless leaves of the same tree.
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Let your life be your message.
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I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them, and while I hold by my own religion, I should hold other religions as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we were Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu; but our innermost prayer should be that a Hindu should become a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, and a Christian a better Christian.
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Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy.
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Untouchability is a blot on Hinduism. It is a canker eating into its vitals.
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The end of nonviolent 'war' is always an agreement, never dictation, much less humiliation of the opponent.
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Do not worry about what others are doing! Each of us should turn the searchlight inward and purify his or her own heart as much as possible.
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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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Happiness eludes us if we run after it.
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For me there is a vital connection between the Bihar calamity and the untouchability campaign.
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A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed.
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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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Hinduism has absorbed the best of all the faiths of the world and in that sense Hinduism is not an exclusive religion.
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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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Vegetarians should have that moral basis-that a man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows.
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The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust.
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India must learn to live before she can aspire to die for humanity.