Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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No action which is not voluntary can be called moral.
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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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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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My religion has no geographical limits.
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A full and candid admission of one's mistakes should make proof against its repetition.
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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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If untouchability lives, Hinduism perishes and even India perishes, but if untouchability is eradicated from the Hindu heart, root and branch, then Hinduism has a definite message for the world.
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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.
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If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality.
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Nonviolent defence presupposes recklessness about one's life and property.
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Total nonviolent non-cooperation has no place in popular Raj, whatever its level may be.
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The process of learning should be as far as possible a pleasurable one and not laborious.
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The very first step in nonviolence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance, loving kindness.
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Hinduism has absorbed the best of all the faiths of the world and in that sense Hinduism is not an exclusive religion.
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All the dry ethics of the world turn to dust because apart from God they are lifeless.
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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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The hardest metal yields to sufficient heat. Even so must the hardest heart melt before sufficiency of the heat of non- violence. And there is no limit to the capacity of non-violence to generate heat.
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Untouchability is a blot on Hinduism. It is a canker eating into its vitals.
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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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Without action, you aren't going anywhere.
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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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Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.
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Man is the center of a circle without a circumference, except the one he creates for himself.
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Faith is a function of the heart. It must be enforced by reason. The two are not antagonistic as some think. The more intense one's faith is, the more it whets one's reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.