Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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What may appear as truth to one person will often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry the seeker. When there is honest effort, it will be realised that what appears to be different truths are like apparently different countless leaves of the same tree.
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The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.
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Armed conspiracies against something satanic is like matching Satans against Satan.
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For a non-violent person the whole world is one family. He will thus fear none, nor will others fear him.
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One must become as humble as the dust before he can discover truth.
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In matters concerning religion, I consider myself not a child but an adult with 35 years of experience.
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The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.
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My experience teaches me that truth can never be propagated by doing violence.
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Self-defense...is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation.
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Close the day with prayer so that you may have a peaceful night free from dreams and nightmares.
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Of all the animal creations of God, main is the only animal who has been created in order that he may know his Maker. Man's aim is life is not therefore to add from day to day to his material prospects and to his material possessions, but his predominant calling is, from day to day to come nearer to his own Maker.
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Swaraj as conceived by me does not mean the end of kingship.
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The renunciation of the Gita is the acid test of faith.
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Without proper, careful organisation of the spinning wheel and khaddar, there is absolutely no civil disobedience.
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If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British.
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It is difficult to judge, when both sides are employing weapons of violence, which side 'deserves' to succeed.
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The first condition of humaneness is a little humility and a little diffidence about the correctness of one's conduct and a little receptiveness.
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If God gives me the privilege of dying for the Hinduism of my conception, I shall have sufficiently died for the unity of all and even for Swaraj.
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The fire of independence is burning just as bright in my breast as in the most fiery breast in this country, but ways and methods differ.
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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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I would ask you to come in Khadi, for Khadi links you with the fallen and the down-trodden.
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Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill.
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Swaraj can only be achieved through an all-round consciousness of the masses.
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It is difficult for me to regard anyone who obeys no moral principle in his conduct to be a religious man.