Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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In a true democracy of India, the unit is the village.
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I am not likely to obtain the result flowing from the worship of God by laying myself prostrate before Satan.
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The strength of the soul can defy a whole world in arms against it.
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Only living things bring living joy to the soul and must elevate it.
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The English have taught us that we were not one nation before and that it will reaquire centuries before we become one nation. This is without foundation. We were one nation before they came to India. One thought inspired us. Our mode of life was the same. It was because we were one nation that they were able to establish one kingdom.
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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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Religion to be true must satisfy what may be termed humanitarian economics, that is, where the income and the expenditure balance each other.
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To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman.
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Nature Cure is so simple easy and cheap.....this system of treatment should be used.
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Those who think religion has nothing to do with politics understand neither religion or politics... The things that will destroy us are: politics without principles, pleasures without conscience, knowledge without character, business without morality.
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My own veneration for other faiths is the same as that for my own faith; therefore no thought of conversion is possible.
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India's way is not Europe's. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages.
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The platform of services is as big as the world. It is never overcrowded.
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However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes.
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Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority.
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A full and candid admission of one's mistakes should make proof against its repetition.
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Fearlessness presupposes calmness and peace of mind.
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It is a tragedy that religion for us means, today, nothing more than restrictions on food and drink, nothing more than adherence to absence of superiority and inferiority.
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Mankind is one, seeing that all are equally subject to the moral law. All men are equal in God's eyes.
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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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The Bhagavadgita is a gospel of non-cooperation between the forces of darkness and those of light.
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I claim to be no more than the average person with less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.
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My fast is, among other things, meant to qualify me for achieving that equal and selfless love.
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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.