Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him. I am prepared to sacrifice the things dearest to me in pursuit of this quest. Even if the sacrifice demanded my very life, I hope I may be prepared to give it.
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If Hinduism teaches hatred of Islam or of non-Hindus, it is doomed to destruction.
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Non-cooperation enables us to show that in everything that matters we can be independent of the Government.
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My experience teaches me that truth can never be propagated by doing violence.
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The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies.
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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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Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes.
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I claim to represent all the cultures, for my religion, whatever it may be called, demands the fulfillment of all the cultures.
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Think of the poorest person you know and see if your next act will be of any use to him.
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God is that indefinable something which we all feel but which we do not know.
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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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To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior.
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Faith is a function of the heart. It must be enforced by reason. The two are not antagonistic as some think. The more intense one's faith is, the more it whets one's reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.
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When a man vowed to nonviolence as the law governing human beings dares to refer to war, he can only do it so as to strain every nerve to avoid it.
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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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Real power does not consist in the ability to inflict capital punishment upon the subjects, but in the will and the ability to protect the subjects against the world.
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Temple going is for the purification of the soul.
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Calling them devadasis we insult God Himself in the name of religion.
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The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.
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With my meager knowledge of my own religion I do not want to belong to any religious body.
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Women are special custodians of all that is pure and religious in life.
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I own no property and yet I feel that I am perhaps the richest man in the world.
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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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Even a little untruth destroys a man, as a drop of poison ruins milk.