Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I claim to be no more than the average person with less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.
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I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.
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When the wheel was accepted as part of the national flag, it was surely implied that the spinning wheel would hum in every household.
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Drink is not a fashion in India, as it is in the West.
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Only living things bring living joy to the soul and must elevate it.
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The world easily finds an honourable place for the magician who produces new and dazzling things.
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India must protect her primary industries even as a mother protects her children against the whole world without being hostile to it.
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If blood be shed, let it be our own. Let us cultivate the calm courage to die without killing.
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There are as many different religions as there are individuals.
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Ahimsa is one of the world's great principles, which no power on earth can wipe out.
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The most distinctive and largest contribution of Hinduism to India's culture is the doctrine of ahimsa.
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God can never be realized by one who is not pure of heart.
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I don't reject Christ. I love Christ. It's just that so many of you Christians are so unlike Christ.
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To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman.
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Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.
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It took Britain half the resources of the planet to achieve its prosperity; how many planets will a country like India require?
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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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Surely conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows his creatures' hearts. A conversion without a clean heart is, in my opinion, a denial of God and Religion. Conversion without cleanliness of heart can only be a matter of sorrow, not joy, to a godly person.
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Whenever I see an erring man, I say to myself I have also erred; when I see a lustful man I say to myself, so was I once; and in this way I feel kinship with everyone in the world and feel that I cannot be happy without the humblest of us being happy.
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If we know how much passive violence we perpetrate against one another, we will understand why there is so much physical violence plaguing societies and the world.
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The soul of India lives in its villages.
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If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern!
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No police or military in the world can protect people who are cowards.
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That atomic energy though harnessed by American scientists and army men for destructive purposes may be utilised by other scientists for humanitarian purposes is undoubtedly within the realm of possibility. ... An incendiary uses fire for his destructive and nefarious purpose, a housewife makes daily use of it in preparing nourishing food for mankind.