Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women.
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Ours is a civil fight, and imprisonment as a civil prisoner has got to be earned by the strict observance of the programme.
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A true Brahmachari will not even dream of satisfying the fleshly appetite.
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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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I isolate this non-co-operation from Sinn Feinism, for it is so conceived as to be incapable of being offered side by side with violence.
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Study men laying down their lives without hurting anyone else in the cause of their country's freedom.
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Khaddar does not displace a single cottage industry.
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A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience.
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Religion is the tie that binds one to one's Creator, and whilst the body perishes, as it has to, religion persists even after death.
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We are aware that the business of Swaraj will thrive only if the boycott of foreign cloth is successful.
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Means are not to be distinguished from ends. If violent means are used, there will be bad results.
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Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a free agent, and knows no distinction between virtue and vice, good and evil. Man, being a free agent, knows these distinctions, and when he follows his higher nature, shows himself far superior to the brute, but when he follows his baser nature can show himself lower than the brute.
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No one can ride on the back of a man unless it is bent.
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Truth is my God. I can only search Him through nonviolence and in on other way.
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Violent nationalism, otherwise known as imperialism, is a curse.
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Wildlife is decreasing in the jungles, but it is increasing in the towns.
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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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Rama Nama should come from the heart. In that event, Rama Nama could become an effective remedy against all ailments. A man who believes in Rama Nama would not make a fetish of the body but would regard it as a means of serving God. And for making it into a fit instrument for that purpose, Rama Nama is the sovereign means. To install Rama Nama in the heart requires infinite patience. It might even take ages. But the effort is worthwhile. Rama Nama cannot come from the heart unless one has cultivated the virtues of truth, honesty and purity within and without.
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There is no one without faults, not even men of God. They are men of God not because they are faultless, but because they know their faults, they strive against them, they do not hide them, and are ever ready to correct themselves.
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For me the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect.
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I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.
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Swaraj for me means freedom for the meanest of countrymen.
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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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The untouchability of Hinduism is probably worse than that of the modern imperialists.