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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Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
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Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
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It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?
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A religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb.
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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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A society organized and run on the basis of complete nonviolence would be the purest anarchy… That State is perfect and non-violent where the people are governed the least.
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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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When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
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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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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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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.
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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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But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
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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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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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Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.
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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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There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
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Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
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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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Love is the basis of our friendship as it is of religion.
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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.