Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The untouchability of Hinduism is probably worse than that of the modern imperialists.
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I am wedded to India because I owe my all to her.
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Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient.
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When you are right,you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry.
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God can never be realized by one who is not pure of heart.
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To know music is to transfer it to life.
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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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If blood be shed, let it be our own. Let us cultivate the calm courage to die without killing.
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A satyagrahi exhausts all other means before he resorts to satyagraha.
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The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities.
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Begin your day with prayer, and make it so soulful that it may remain with you until the evening.
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Active nonviolence is necessary for those who will offer civil disobedience but the will and proper training are enough for the people to co-operate with those who are chosen for civil disobedience.
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Work for Swaraj fails to appeal to us because we have no music in us.
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A literal interpretation of the Gita lands one in a sea of contradictions.
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The method of satyagraha requires that the satyagrahi should never lose hope, so long as there is the slightest ground left for it.
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Though we are politically free, we are hardly free from the subtle domination of the West.
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Religion is a thing to be lived. It is not merely sophistry.
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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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'Physician, heal thyself' is more true in matters religious than mundane.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment.
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Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life.
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Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.
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Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path.
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A man of prayer regards what are known as physical calamities as divine chastisement.