Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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Freedom battles are not fought without paying heavy prices.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
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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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Cowards can never be moral.
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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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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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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
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Every moment of my existence is dedicated to the winning of Swaraj by means of truth and nonviolence.
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Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.
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I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonour. But I believe that nonviolence is infinitely superior to violence, forgiveness is more manly than punishment.
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The message of Jesus has proved ineffective because the environment was unready to receive it.
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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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A religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb.
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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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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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If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
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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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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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The earth has everything for all human needs, but nothing for his greed.
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Muslims must realize and admit the wrongs perpetrated under the Islamic rule.
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The good man is the friend of all living things.