Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of nonresistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in selfsuffering.
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A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
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Fear of disease killed more men than disease itself.
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Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
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We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do.
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To lose patience is to lose the battle.
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If we want to impart education best suited to the needs of the villagers, we should take the vidyapith to the villages.
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Vaccination is a barbarous practice and one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time. Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand alone, if need be, against the whole world, in defense of their conviction.
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There's no God higher than truth.
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What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
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The call of the spinning wheel is the noblest of all. Because it is the call of love. And love is Swaraj.
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The earth has everything for all human needs, but nothing for his greed.
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No two leaves were alike, and yet there is no antagonism between them or between the branches on which they grow.
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Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.
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It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
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Freedom battles are not fought without paying heavy prices.
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A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
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When you surrender completely to God, as the only truth worth having, you find yourself in service of all that exists. It becomes your joy and recreation. You never tire of serving others.
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All great religions have rightly regarded kama as the arch-enemy of man, anger or hatred coming only in the second place.
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
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Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
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The greater our innocence, the greater our strength and the swifter our victory.
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When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.