Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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My anekantavada is the result of the twin doctrines of satya and ahimsa.
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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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There is a power now slumbering within us, which is awakened would do to evil what light does to darkness.
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I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.
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I can not give you the reference of Ram Chandar or Krishna, because they were not historical figures. I can not help it but to present to you the names of (Hazrat) Abu Bakar (RA) and (Hazrat) Umar Farooq (RA). They were leaders of a vast Empire, yet they lived a life of austerity.
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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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People say true friends must always hold hands, but true friends don't need to hold hands because they know the other hand will always be there.
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A man or a woman who serves the country with all his or her heart stands on par with the tallest Congress-man.
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The prince and the peasant will not be equalized by cutting off the prince's head.
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Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help.
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If you Christians acted more like your Christ, the world would be a better place.
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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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Fearlessness presupposes calmness and peace of mind.
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A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all.
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Kashmir is the real test of secularism in India.
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Forgive and forget, but never forget to forgive. You may find a happier heart is the key to a happier life.
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Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. There is nothing more potent than thought. Deed follows word and word follows thought. The word is the result of a mighty thought, and where the thought is mighty and pure the result is always mighty and pure.
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'If I had power and could legislate, I should certainly stop all proselytizing. For Hindu households, the advent of a missionary has meant the disruption of the family, coming in the wake of change of dress, manners, language, food and drink.'
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My Gita tells me that evil can never result from a good action.
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To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm.
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The British Government in India constitutes a struggle between modern civilization, which is the Kingdom of Satan, and the ancient civilization, which is the Kingdom of God.
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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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Healthy, well-informed, balanced criticism is the ozone of public life.