Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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All your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be in vain, if at the same time you do not build your character, and attain mastery over your thoughts and actions.
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God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth and He tries you through and through.
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We have to tackle the triple malady which holds our villages fast in its grip; want of corporate sanitation, deficient diet and inertia.
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The woman has circumvented man in a variety of ways in her unconsciously subtle ways, as the man has vainly and equally consciously struggled to thwart the woman in gaining ascendancy over him.
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A literal interpretation of the Gita lands one in a sea of contradictions.
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The end of nonviolent 'war' is always an agreement, never dictation, much less humiliation of the opponent.
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The commerce between India and Africa will be of ideas and services, not of the manufactured goods against raw materials after the fashion of the Western exploiters.
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I want India to come into her own and that state cannot be better defined by any single word than Swaraj.
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The whole world is in the throes of a new birth. Anything done for a temporary gain would be tantamount to an abortion.
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Our non-co-operation is with the system the English have established in India, with the material civilization and its attendant greed and exploitation of the weak.
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Do not worry about what others are doing! Each of us should turn the searchlight inward and purify his or her own heart as much as possible.
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Mass civil disobedience was for the attainment of independence.
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Swaraj as conceived by me does not mean the end of kingship.
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A person unbound by vows can never be absolutely relied upon.
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There is no such thing as slow freedom. Freedom is like a birth. Till we are fully free we are slaves. All birth takes place in a moment.
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Education is the basic tool for the development of consciousness and the reconstitution of society.
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The world is touched by sacrifice. It does not then discriminate about the merits of a cause. No so God - He is all seeing. He insists on the purity of the cause and on adequate sacrifice thereof.
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The real test of nonviolence lies in its being brought in contact with those who have contempt for it.
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We may not go about parroting truth and nonviolence and steering clear of them in our daily life.
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The hardest metal yields to sufficient heat. Even so must the hardest heart melt before sufficiency of the heat of non- violence. And there is no limit to the capacity of non-violence to generate heat.
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"Do not worry in the least about yourself, leave all worry to God" this appears to be the commandment in all religions.
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Hesitating to act because the whole vision might not be achieved, or because others do not yet share it, is an attitude that only hinders progress.
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If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality.
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Voluntary service of others demands the best of which one is capable, and must take precedence over service of self.