Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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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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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
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When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
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Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
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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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A religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb.
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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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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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Love is the basis of our friendship as it is of religion.
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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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I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
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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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God's word is: 'He who strives never perishes.' I have implicit faith in that promise. Though, therefore, from my weakness I fail a thousand times, I shall not lose faith.
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The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
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Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
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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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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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Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
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For me the only certain means of knowing God is nonviolence, ahimsa, love.
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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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The good man is the friend of all living things.
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Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.