Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Satyagraha is a law for universal application. Beginning with the family, its use can be extended to every other circle.
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Tolerance is the only thing that will enable persons belonging to different religions to live as good neighbours and friends.
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Watches may disagree, but let us not.
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No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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I suggest that we are thieves in a way. If I take anything that I do not need for my own immediate use, and keep it, I thieve it from somebody else. ... Nature produces enough for our wants from day to day, and if only every-body took enough for himself and nothing more, there would be no pauperism in this world, there would be no man dying of starvation in this world. But so long as we have got this inequality, so long we are thieving.
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My fight against untouchability is a fight against the impure in humanity.
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Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. There is nothing more potent than thought. Deed follows word and word follows thought. The word is the result of a mighty thought, and where the thought is mighty and pure the result is always mighty and pure.
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We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime.
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It is difficult for me to regard anyone who obeys no moral principle in his conduct to be a religious man.
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My idea of village SWARAJ is that is a complete republic, independent of its neighbors for its own vital wants, and yet interdependent for many others which dependence is a necessity.
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The control of the palate is a valuable aid for the control of the mind.
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A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him.
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Every species, human and subhuman, has some distinguishing mark, so that you can tell a man from a beast, or a dog from a cow.
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The fire of independence is burning just as bright in my breast as in the most fiery breast in this country, but ways and methods differ.
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Exercise of faith will be the safest where there is a clear determination summarily to reject all that is contrary to truth and love.
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Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.
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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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What is faith if it is not translated into action?
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It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet.
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All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles.
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True ahimsa lay in running into the mouth of himsa.
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The real difficulty is that people have no idea of what education truly is. We assess the value of education in the same manner as we assess the value of land or of shares in the stock-exchange market. We want to provide only such education as would enable the student to earn more. We hardly give any thought to the improvement of the character of the educated. The girls, we say, do not have to earn; so why should they be educated? As long as such ideas persist there is no hope of our ever knowing the true value of education.
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I regard the constituent assembly as the substitute ofsatyagraha. It is constructive satyagraha.
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Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.