Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings.
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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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Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion.
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How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to atoms and even kill me. He will then have my dead body, not my obedience. Ultimately, therefore, it is I who am the victor and not he, for he has failed in getting me to do what he wanted done.
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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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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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The whole world is like the human body with its various members. Pain in one member is felt in the whole body.
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I believe in the essential unity of all that lives. Therefore, I believe that if one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains, and that if one person falls, the whole world falls to that extent.
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Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
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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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My fast is, among other things, meant to qualify me for achieving that equal and selfless love.
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Faith is a function of the heart. It must be enforced by reason. The two are not antagonistic as some think. The more intense one's faith is, the more it whets one's reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.
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God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth, and he tries you through and through. And when you find that your faith is failing or your body is failing you, and you are sinking, he comes to your assistance somehow or other and proves to you that you must not lose your faith and that he is always at your beck and call, but on his terms, not on your terms. So I have found. I cannot really recall a single instance when, at the eleventh hour, he has forsaken me.
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For a satyagrahi brigade only those are eligible who believe in ahimsa and satya.
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To reject the necessity of temples is to reject the necessity of God, religion and earthly existence.
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When the wheel was accepted as part of the national flag, it was surely implied that the spinning wheel would hum in every household.
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A spirit is not necessarily purer, because it is disembodied.
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We stand on the threshold of a twilight-whether morning or evening we do not know. One is followed by the night, the other heralds the dawn.
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We dare not enter the kingdom of liberty with mere life-homage to truth and nonviolence.
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The Law which governs all life is God.
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The strength of the soul can defy a whole world in arms against it.
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However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes.
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The Charkha in the hands of a poor widow brings a paltry price to her, in the hands of Jawaharlal; it is an instrument of India's freedom.
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Untouchability is a blot on Hinduism. It is a canker eating into its vitals.