Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Every man has an equal right to the necessaries of life even as birds and beasts have.
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Truth and nonviolence are both the means and the end, and given the right type of men, the legislatures can be the means of achieving the concrete pursuit of truth and nonviolence.
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Wildlife is decreasing in the jungles, but it is increasing in the towns.
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My life has been full of external tragedies and if they have not left any visible effect on me, I owe it to the teaching of the Bhagavadgita.
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Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.
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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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Civil disobedience is the inherent right of a citizen.
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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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My religion teaches me that I should, by my personal conduct, instill into the minds of those who might hold different views the conviction that cow killing is a sin.
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I realized the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. The lesson was so indelibly burnt into me that a large part of my time during the twenty years of my practice as a lawyer was occupied in bringing about private compromises of hundreds of cases. I lost nothing thereby -- not even money, certainly not my soul.
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Truth without humility would be an arrogant caricature.
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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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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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"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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It is easy enough to say, I do not believe in God. For God permits all things to be said of Him with impunity. he looks at our acts. And any breach of His Law carries with it, not its vindictive, but it purifying, compelling punishment.
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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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Woman is the embodiment of sacrifice and suffering and her advent to public life should, therefore, result in purifying it, in restraining unbridled ambition and accumulation of property.
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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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Swaraj as conceived by me does not mean the end of kingship.
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I want India to come into her own and that state cannot be better defined by any single word than Swaraj.
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Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.
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Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the Europeans, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir whose occupation is hunting, and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with and, then, pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
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If it weren't for Christians, I'd be a Christian.
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It is as much our obligation not to cooperate with evil as it is to cooperate with good.