Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The soul of India lives in its villages.
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Weeding is as necessary to agriculture as sowing.
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Even the most sublime ideas sound ridiculous if heard too often. Be the change that you want to see in the world.
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Three quarters of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world would finish if people were to put on the shoes of their adversaries and understood their points of view.
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Conservation of national sanitation is Swaraj work and it may not be postponed for a single day on any consideration whatsoever.
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There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it.
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My austerities, fasting and prayers are, I know, of no value if I rely upon them for reforming me. My penance is the prayer of a bleeding heart for forgiveness for sins unwittingly committed.
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Love is needed to strengthen the weak; love becomes tyrannical when it exacts obedience from an unbeliever.
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To die without killing is the badge of a satyagrahi.
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Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society.
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If I had no sense of humor I should long ago have committed suicide.
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The hardest metal yields to sufficient heat. Even so must the hardest heart melt before sufficiency of the heat of non- violence. And there is no limit to the capacity of non-violence to generate heat.
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If everyone will try to understand the core of his own religion and adhere to it, and will not allow false teachers to dictate to him, there will be no room left for quarrelling.
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We dare not enter the kingdom of liberty with mere life-homage to truth and nonviolence.
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We are aware that the business of Swaraj will thrive only if the boycott of foreign cloth is successful.
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Without satyagraha carried out in the proper spirit, there is no victory, no Swaraj.
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Drink is not a fashion in India, as it is in the West.
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To kill these (rabid) dogs, in my opinion, amount to himsa, but I believe it to be inevitable if we are to escape much greater himsa.
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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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I may have become Christian, were it not for Christians.
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The cow to me is a sermon on pity.
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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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It is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others' religions as we would have them respect our own, a friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.
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If it had not been for the Christians that I have known I might have been a Christian.