Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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In the case of the Indian villager, an age-old culture is hidden under entrustment of crudeness.
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I consider Western Christianity in its practical working a negation of Christ's Christianity.
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Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.
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We have to tackle the triple malady which holds our villages fast in its grip; want of corporate sanitation, deficient diet and inertia.
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Some form of common worship and a common place of worship appear to be a human necessity.
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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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Events that have happened during the past month have confirmed me in the opinion that the Imperial Government have acted in the Khilafat matter in an unscrupulous, immoral and unjust manner and have been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend their immorality. I can retain neither respect nor affection for such a Government. The attitude of the Imperial and Your Excellency's Governments on the Punjab question has given me additional cause for grave dissatisfaction.
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I have not know a worthy son to whom his mother appeared ugly.
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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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Unity among the different races and the different religions of India is indispensable to the birth of national life.
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The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.
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I believe that the sum total of the energy of mankind is not to bring us down but to lift us up, and that is the result of the definite, if unconscious, working of the law of love. The fact that mankind persists shows that the cohesive force is greater than the disruptive force, centripetal force greater than centrifugal.
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True art must be evidence of happiness, contentment and purity of its authors.
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Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation.
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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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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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The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully ready to die, he will not even desire to offer violence. Indeed, I may put it down as a self-evident proposition that the desire to kill is in inverse proportion to the desire to die. And history is replete with instances of men who by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.
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The whole world is in the throes of a new birth. Anything done for a temporary gain would be tantamount to an abortion.
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"Do not worry in the least about yourself, leave all worry to God" this appears to be the commandment in all religions.
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Those with the greatest awareness have the greatest nightmares.
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I cannot be subservient anywhere.
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My swadeshi chiefly centers round the handspun khaddar and extends to everything that can be and is produced in India.
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My religion has no geographical limits.
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There is a power now slumbering within us, which is awakened would do to evil what light does to darkness.