Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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A free India will throw all her weight in favour of world disarmament and should herself be prepared to give a lead in this.
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If fighting for the legislatures meant a sacrifice of truth and nonviolence, democracy would not be worth a moment's purchase.
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Mankind is one, seeing that all are equally subject to the moral law. All men are equal in God's eyes.
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Seek ye first the Charkha and its concomitants and everything else will be added unto you.
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My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control.
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As the elephant is powerless to think in the terms of the ant, in spite of the best intentions in the world, even so is the Englishman powerless to think in the terms of, or legislate for, the Indian.
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The platform of services is as big as the world. It is never overcrowded.
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I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.
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Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilized - the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals.
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My fast is, among other things, meant to qualify me for achieving that equal and selfless love.
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To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm.
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Truth is God, and truth overrides all our plans.
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Means are not to be distinguished from ends. If violent means are used, there will be bad results.
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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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I am not likely to obtain the result flowing from the worship of God by laying myself prostrate before Satan.
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If I know Hinduism at all, it is essentially inclusive and ever-growing, ever-responsive. It gives the freest scope for imagination, speculation and reason.
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I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.
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No effort is complete without prayer - without definite recognition that the best human endeavor is of no effect if it has not God's blessing behind it.
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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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The process of learning should be as far as possible a pleasurable one and not laborious.
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To have a happy ending, choose a happy moment and call it 'the ending'. Honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune.
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Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him.
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The golden rule to apply in all such cases is resolutely to refuse to have what millions cannot.
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It is a tragedy that religion for us means, today, nothing more than restrictions on food and drink, nothing more than adherence to absence of superiority and inferiority.