Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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To bear all kinds of tortures without a murmur of resentment is not possible for a human being without the strength that comes from God.
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A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature.
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Those who think religion has nothing to do with politics understand neither religion or politics... The things that will destroy us are: politics without principles, pleasures without conscience, knowledge without character, business without morality.
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Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
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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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Let us learn from the English rulers the simple fact that the oppressors are blind to the enormity of their own misdeeds.
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Untouchability is a terrible reality.
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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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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 measure of a country's greatness should be based on how well it cares for its most vulnerable populations.
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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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Truth triumphs, even if there be no public support.
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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.
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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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Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.
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We cry for cow protection in the name of religion, but we refuse protection to the human cow in the shape of the girl-widow.
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There is no such thing as slow freedom. Freedom is like a birth. Till we are fully free we are slaves. All birth takes place in a moment.
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So far as I can see the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained mankind for ages.
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Satyagraha does not begin and end with civil disobedience.
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The West has yet to discover anything so hygienic as the Indian toothstick.
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"Do not worry in the least about yourself, leave all worry to God" this appears to be the commandment in all religions.
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Our struggle consists in showing that our nonviolence is neither a cloak to hide our violence or hatred, nor a preparation for violence in the near or distant future.
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Study men following the law of their higher nature, the law of love, so that when you grow to manhood, you will have improved your heritage.
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Ours is a civil fight, and imprisonment as a civil prisoner has got to be earned by the strict observance of the programme.