Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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My austerities, fasting and prayers are, I know, of no value if I rely upon them for reforming me. My penance is the prayer of a bleeding heart for forgiveness for sins unwittingly committed.
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Economics that hurt the moral well-being of an individual or a nation are immoral and, therefore, sinful.
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Being dissatisfied and properly dissatisfied with the husk of Hinduism, you are in danger of losing even the kernel, life itself.
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Where there is truth, there also is knowledge which is true.
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I like their Christ, but I don't like their Christians.
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Swaraj for me means freedom for the meanest of countrymen.
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It hurts me to think that people in their rush for everything modern despise all their ancient traditions and ignore them in their lives.
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The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else.
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The soul of India lives in its villages.
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Without proper, careful organisation of the spinning wheel and khaddar, there is absolutely no civil disobedience.
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The highest truth needs no communicating, for it is by its very nature self-propelling. It radiates its influence silently as the rose its fragrance without the intervention of a medium.
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Under my plan, the state will be there to carry out the will of the people, not to dictate to them or to force them to do its will.
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The Bhagavadgita is a gospel of non-cooperation between the forces of darkness and those of light.
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If India is not to declare spiritual bankruptcy, religious instruction of its youth must be held to be at least as necessary as secular instruction.
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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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Untouchability is a blot on Hinduism. It is a canker eating into its vitals.
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The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.
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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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Every expression of truth has in it the seeds of propagation, even as the sun cannot hide its light.
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I claim to represent all the cultures, for my religion, whatever it may be called, demands the fulfillment of all the cultures.
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When a man vowed to nonviolence as the law governing human beings dares to refer to war, he can only do it so as to strain every nerve to avoid it.
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To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.
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Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.
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Khaddar does not displace a single cottage industry.