Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Let no one try to justify the glaring difference between the classes and the masses, the prince and the pauper, by saying that the former need more.
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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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Without proper, careful organisation of the spinning wheel and khaddar, there is absolutely no civil disobedience.
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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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Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.
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Religion to be true must satisfy what may be termed humanitarian economics, that is, where the income and the expenditure balance each other.
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Do you think I am superstitious? I am a super-atheist.
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Recall the face of the poorest and weakest man you have seen, and ask yourself if this step you contemplate is going to be any use to him.
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Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal.
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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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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.
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The weak can never forgive.
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It is no religion to have for one's wife a girl who is fit only to sit in one's lap, it is the height of irreligion.
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The woman who knows and fulfils her duty realizes her dignified status.
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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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Education is the basic tool for the development of consciousness and the reconstitution of society.
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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 final goal of all religions is to realise the essential oneness.
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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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I would like to say that that even the teachings of the Koran cannot be exempted from criticism.
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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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The states can make the finest contribution to the building of India's future independence if they set the right example in their own territories.
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Hinduism has absorbed the best of all the faiths of the world and in that sense Hinduism is not an exclusive religion.
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It is not given to man to know the whole Truth. His duty lies in living up to the truth as he sees it, and in doing so, to resort to the purest means, i.e., to non-violence. God alone knows absolute truth. Therefore, I have often said, Truth is God. It follows that man, a finite being, cannot know absolute truth. Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. This is God's attribute alone. Relative truth is all we know. Therefore, we can only follow the truth as we see it. Such pursuit of truth cannot lead anyone astray.