Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I cannot imagine anything nobler or more national than that for, say, one hour in the day we should all do the labor the poor must do, and thus identify ourselves with them and through them, with all mankind.
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It is difficult to judge, when both sides are employing weapons of violence, which side 'deserves' to succeed.
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I felt that God could be realized only through service. And service for me was the service of India, because it came to me without my seeking, because I had an aptitude for it.
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Every single act of one who would lead a life of purity should be in the nature of yajna.
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Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient.
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The nonviolent man automatically becomes a servant of God.
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Weeding is as necessary to agriculture as sowing.
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How can I even secretly harbour the thought that my neighbour's faith is inferior to mine?
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Swaraj as conceived by me does not mean the end of kingship.
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I learned from Hussain how to be wronged and be a winner, I learnt from Hussain how to attain victory while being oppressed.
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It hurts me to think that people in their rush for everything modern despise all their ancient traditions and ignore them in their lives.
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Sanitation is more important than Independence.
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I know that man who forsakes Truth can forsake his country and his nearest and dearest ones.
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Is the God of the Mahometan different from the God of the Hindu? Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal? Wherein is the cause for quarreling?
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It is through truth & non-violence that I can have some glimpse of God. Truth & non-violence are my God. They are the obverse and reverse of the same coin.
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Non-cooperation enables us to show that in everything that matters we can be independent of the Government.
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The soul of India lives in its villages.
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Without an unreserved surrender to His grace, complete mastery over thoughts is impossible.
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Khadi to me is the symbol of unity of Indian humanity, of its economic freedom and equality and, therefore, ultimately, in the poetic expression of Jawaharlal Nehru, 'the livery of India's freedom'.
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I learnt the lesson on nonviolence from my wife, when I tried to bend her to my will. Her determined resistance to my will on the one hand, and her quiet submission to the suffering my stupidity involved on the other, ultimately made me ashamed of myself and cured me of my stupidity in thinking that I was born to rule over her.
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To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy.
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The real love is to love them that hate you, to love your neighbor even though you distrust him.
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The deepest spiritual truths are always unutterable.
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See the good in people and help them.