Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.
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When a man vowed to nonviolence as the law governing human beings dares to refer to war, he can only do it so as to strain every nerve to avoid it.
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If you think the world is all wrong, remember that it contains people like you.
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The final goal of all religions is to realise the essential oneness.
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The platform of services is as big as the world. It is never overcrowded.
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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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Means are not to be distinguished from ends. If violent means are used, there will be bad results.
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The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.
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Dining and marriage restrictions stunt Hindu society.
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The satyagrahi strives to reach reason through the heart. The method of reaching the heart is to awaken public opinion.
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All the dry ethics of the world turn to dust because apart from God they are lifeless.
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Untouchability of foreign cloth is as much a virtue with all of us as untouchability of the suppressed classes must be a sin with every devout Hindu.
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The reaction that a ruthless dictator sets up in us either that of awe or pity according respectively as we react to him violently on nonviolently.
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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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The cow to me is a sermon on pity.
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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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No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.
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Seek ye first the Charkha and its concomitants and everything else will be added unto you.
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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.
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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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Just as the body cannot exist without blood, so the soul needs the matchless and pure strength of faith.
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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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'If I had power and could legislate, I should certainly stop all proselytizing. For Hindu households, the advent of a missionary has meant the disruption of the family, coming in the wake of change of dress, manners, language, food and drink.'
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Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.