Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him.
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Birth-control through self-restraint is the most desirable, sensible and totally harmless method.
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I felt that God could be realized only through service. And service for me was the service of India, because it came to me without my seeking, because I had an aptitude for it.
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The control of the palate is a valuable aid for the control of the mind.
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In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed.
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The Bible is as much a book of religion with me as the Gita and the Koran.
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I hold too that whatever may be true of other countries, a bloody revolution will not succeed in India.
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When a tiger changes his nature, Englishmen will change theirs.
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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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If everyone will try to understand the core of his own religion and adhere to it, and will not allow false teachers to dictate to him, there will be no room left for quarrelling.
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My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control.
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How can I even secretly harbour the thought that my neighbour's faith is inferior to mine?
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The weapon of nonviolence does not need supermen or superwomen to wield it; even beings of common clay can use it and have used it before this with success.
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To my mind, Swaraj based on nonviolence is the fulfillment of the constructive programme.
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In this day of wonders no one will say that a thing or an idea is worthless because it is new. To say it is impossible because it is difficult is again not in consonance with the spirit of the age. Things undreamt of are daily being seen, the impossible is ever becoming possible.
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The object of the Gita appears to me to be that of showing the most excellent way to attain self-realization.
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Faith is like the Himalaya mountains which cannot possibly change.
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Unrestricted individualism is the law of the beast of the jungle.
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Weeding is as necessary to agriculture as sowing.
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There is no such thing as 'Gandhism', and I do not want to leave any sect after me.
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The nonviolent man automatically becomes a servant of God.
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All satyagraha and fasting is a species of tyaga. It depends for its effects upon an expression of wholesome public opinion shorn of all bitterness.
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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 whole existence of man is a ceaseless duel between the forces of life and death.