Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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A full and candid admission of one's mistakes should make proof against its repetition.
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Let us, by praying, purify ourselves and we shall not only remove untouchability but shall also hasten the advent of Swaraj.
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The principle of majority does not work when differences on fundamentals are involved.
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Nothing can be more hurtful to an honourable man than that he should be accused of bad faith.
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Every labourer is worthy of his hire. No country can produce thousands of unpaid whole-time workers.
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If fighting for the legislatures meant a sacrifice of truth and nonviolence, democracy would not be worth a moment's purchase.
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Truth and nonviolence are both the means and the end, and given the right type of men, the legislatures can be the means of achieving the concrete pursuit of truth and nonviolence.
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The only way love punishes in by suffering.
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A slave- holder, who has decided to abolish slavery, does not consult his slaves whether they desire freedom or not.
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Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
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Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views.
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Work without faith is like an attempt to reach the bottom of a bottomless pit.
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The weak can never forgive.
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Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds not words.
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Hindu religious literature, indeed all religious literature, is full of illustrations to prove the truth.
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Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.
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The soul of India lives in its villages.
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Without action, you aren't going anywhere.
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I realized the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. The lesson was so indelibly burnt into me that a large part of my time during the twenty years of my practice as a lawyer was occupied in bringing about private compromises of hundreds of cases. I lost nothing thereby -- not even money, certainly not my soul.
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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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It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners.
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The Bhagavad-Gita calls on humanity to dedicate body, mind and soul to pure duty and not to become mental voluptuaries at the mercy of random desires and undisciplined impulses.
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I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.
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Ours is a civil fight, and imprisonment as a civil prisoner has got to be earned by the strict observance of the programme.