Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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My personal religion peremptorily forbids me to hate anybody.
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I believe in the essential unity of all that lives. Therefore, I believe that if one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains, and that if one person falls, the whole world falls to that extent.
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Every man has an equal right to the necessaries of life even as birds and beasts have.
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Punishment is God's. He alone is the infallible Judge.
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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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I know that not only is Swaraj our birthright, but it is our sacred duty to win it.
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Unity, to be real, must stand the severest strain without breaking.
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Wildlife is decreasing in the jungles, but it is increasing in the towns.
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Newspapers should be read for the study of facts. They should not be allowed to kill the habit of independent thinking.
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Woman is the embodiment of sacrifice and suffering and her advent to public life should, therefore, result in purifying it, in restraining unbridled ambition and accumulation of property.
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Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.
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Find purpose. The means will follow.
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To die without killing is the badge of a satyagrahi.
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Satyagraha is search for Truth, and God is Truth.
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Real education consists in drawing the best out of yourself.
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A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation.
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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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So far as I can see the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained mankind for ages.
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Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.
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My religion teaches me that I should, by my personal conduct, instill into the minds of those who might hold different views the conviction that cow killing is a sin.
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Truth triumphs, even if there be no public support.
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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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If you want something really important to be done you must not merely satisfy the reason, you must move the heart also.
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Religion all the world over offeres God as the solace and comfort for all in agony.