Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I may have become Christian, were it not for Christians.
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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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Means are not to be distinguished from ends. If violent means are used, there will be bad results.
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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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Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants.
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Freedom of India will demonstrate to all the exploited races of the earth that their freedom is very near.
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The platform of services is as big as the world. It is never overcrowded.
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A satyagrahi has no other stay but God, and he who has any other stay or depends on any other help cannot offer satyagraha.
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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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The world is touched by sacrifice. It does not then discriminate about the merits of a cause. No so God - He is all seeing. He insists on the purity of the cause and on adequate sacrifice thereof.
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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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My opposition to the socialist and the other consists in attacking violence as a means of effecting any lasting reform.
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It is easier to bridge the oceans that lie between continents than it is to bridge the gap between individuals or the peoples.
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I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the culture of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.
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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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Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.
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High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship.
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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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Seek ye first the Charkha and its concomitants and everything else will be added unto you.
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A free India will throw all her weight in favour of world disarmament and should herself be prepared to give a lead in this.
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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle, and a victory.
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See the good in people and help them.
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Hatred is not essential for nationalism. Race hatred will kill the real national spirit.
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The only way love punishes in by suffering.