Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Our struggle consists in showing that our nonviolence is neither a cloak to hide our violence or hatred, nor a preparation for violence in the near or distant future.
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All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.
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I regard untouchability as such a grave sin as to warrant divine chastisement.
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Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways. I am sensible of the fact that they are indescribable and inscrutable. But if mortal man will dare to describe them, he has no better medium than his own inarticulate speech.
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Idleness is the great plague of India.
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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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The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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Seek ye first the Charkha and its concomitants and everything else will be added unto you.
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I will say that if there is anything like God Or Truth on earth, Hindu-Muslim unity is also possible.
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Belief in one God is the cornerstone of all religions.
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It took Britain half the resources of the planet to achieve its prosperity; how many planets will a country like India require?
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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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The principle of majority does not work when differences on fundamentals are involved.
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If fighting for the legislatures meant a sacrifice of truth and nonviolence, democracy would not be worth a moment's purchase.
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Nonviolent action without the co-operation of the heart and the head cannot produce the intended result.
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Hitler is a scourge sent by God to punish men for their iniquities.
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The West has yet to discover anything so hygienic as the Indian toothstick.
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If I know Hinduism at all, it is essentially inclusive and ever-growing, ever-responsive. It gives the freest scope for imagination, speculation and reason.
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I believe that the yarn we spin is capable of mending the broken warp and woof of our life!
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I would like to say that that even the teachings of the Koran cannot be exempted from criticism.
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The whole existence of man is a ceaseless duel between the forces of life and death.
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Vehement writing, even if it is charged with truth, is no answer to violent action.
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When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand.
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As the elephant is powerless to think in the terms of the ant, in spite of the best intentions in the world, even so is the Englishman powerless to think in the terms of, or legislate for, the Indian.