Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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Liberty never meant the license to do anything at will.
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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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Vehement writing, even if it is charged with truth, is no answer to violent action.
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The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies.
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My religion forbids me to belittle or disregard other cultures, as it insists, under pain of civil suicide, upon imbibing and living my own.
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History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force.
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Love is needed to strengthen the weak; love becomes tyrannical when it exacts obedience from an unbeliever.
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Like the watch, the heart needs the winding of purity, or the Dweller ceases to speak.
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God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth and He tries you through and through.
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Faith is like the Himalaya mountains which cannot possibly change.
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If you think the world is all wrong, remember that it contains people like you.
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Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants.
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The golden rule to apply in all such cases is resolutely to refuse to have what millions cannot.
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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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If we want to cultivate a true spirit of democracy we cannot afford to be intolerant. Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
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The cow to me is a sermon on pity.
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My idea of village SWARAJ is that is a complete republic, independent of its neighbors for its own vital wants, and yet interdependent for many others which dependence is a necessity.
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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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No matter how insignificant the thing you have to do, do it as well as you can, give it as much of your care and attention as you would give to the thing you regard as most important. For it will be by those small things that you shall be judged.
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True ahimsa lay in running into the mouth of himsa.
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We no longer have a choice between violence and non-violence. The choice of today stands between nonviolence or non-existence.
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It is easy enough to say, I do not believe in God. For God permits all things to be said of Him with impunity. he looks at our acts. And any breach of His Law carries with it, not its vindictive, but it purifying, compelling punishment.
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Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers.