Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Ahimsa calls for the strength and courage to suffer without retaliation, to receive blows without returning any.
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As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality. Man, for instance, cannot be untruthful, cruel or incontinent and claim to have God on his side.
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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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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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Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
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A religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb.
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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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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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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To lose patience is to lose the battle.
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The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. ... Freedom and slavery are mental states. Therefore, the first thing to say to yourself: 'I shall no longer accept the role of a slave. I shall not obey orders as such but shall disobey them when they are in conflict with my conscience'.'
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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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A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
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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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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
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We notice that the mind is a restless bird; the more it gets the more it wants, and still remains unsatisfied. The more we indulge our passions the more unbridled they become. Our ancestors, therefore, set a limit to our indulgences. They saw that happiness was largely a mental condition. A man is not necessarily happy because he is rich, or unhappy because he is poor.... Millions will always remain poor.
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When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
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It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
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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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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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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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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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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.