Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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There are as many different religions as there are individuals.
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When a slave begins to take pride in his fetters and hugs them like precious ornaments, the triumph of the slave-owner is complete.
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Whilst power, superimposed, always needs the help of the police and the military, power generated from within should have little or no use of them.
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Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.
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I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.
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Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways. I am sensible of the fact that they are indescribable and inscrutable. But if mortal man will dare to describe them, he has no better medium than his own inarticulate speech.
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Dharma is that which is enjoined by the holy books, followed by the sages, interpreted by the learned and which appeals to the heart.
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Truth is God, and truth overrides all our plans.
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When a man vowed to nonviolence as the law governing human beings dares to refer to war, he can only do it so as to strain every nerve to avoid it.
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Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger... . Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice.
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Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large.
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If you must kill English officials, why not kill me instead?
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Rama Nama should come from the heart. In that event, Rama Nama could become an effective remedy against all ailments. A man who believes in Rama Nama would not make a fetish of the body but would regard it as a means of serving God. And for making it into a fit instrument for that purpose, Rama Nama is the sovereign means. To install Rama Nama in the heart requires infinite patience. It might even take ages. But the effort is worthwhile. Rama Nama cannot come from the heart unless one has cultivated the virtues of truth, honesty and purity within and without.
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If you want something really important to be done you must not merely satisfy the reason, you must move the heart also.
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A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification.
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Under my plan, the state will be there to carry out the will of the people, not to dictate to them or to force them to do its will.
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The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else.
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My austerities, fasting and prayers are, I know, of no value if I rely upon them for reforming me. My penance is the prayer of a bleeding heart for forgiveness for sins unwittingly committed.
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Literacy is not the end of education nor even the beginning.
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People say true friends must always hold hands, but true friends don't need to hold hands because they know the other hand will always be there.
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I believe that the civilization India evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by our ancestors, Rome went, Greece shared the same fate; the might of the Pharaohs was broken; Japan has become Westernized; of China nothing can be said; but India is still, somehow or other, sound at the foundation.
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I am, and have been for years, a confirmed anti-vaccinationist...I have not the least doubt in my mind that vaccination is a filthy process that is harmful in the end.
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Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society.
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The final goal of all religions is to realise the essential oneness.