Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient.
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See the good in people and help them.
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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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... man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows. I know we must all err. I would give up milk if I could, but I cannot. I have made that experiment times without number. I could not, after a serious illness, regain my strength, unless I went back to milk. That has been the tragedy of my life. But the basis of my vegetarianism is not physical, but moral. If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef tea or mutton, even on medical advice, I would prefer death. That is the basis of my vegetarianism.
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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.
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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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Liberty never meant the license to do anything at will.
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When a man gives way to anger, he only harms himself.
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I know that in embarking on non-violence I shall be running what might be termed a mad risk. But the victories of truth have never been won without risks.
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I believe in the absolute oneness of God and, therefore, also of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but one soul. The rays of the sun are many through refraction. But they have the same source. I cannot, therefore, detach myself from the wickedest soul (nor may I be denied identity with the most virtuous).
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My experience teaches me that truth can never be propagated by doing violence.
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Our struggle does not end so long as there is a single human being considered untouchable on account of his birth.
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We, the English educated Indians, often unconsciously make the terrible mistake of thinking that the microscopic minority of the English-speaking Indians is the whole of India.
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It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves.
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A seeker after truth, a follower of the law of Love, cannot hold anything against tomorrow.
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To bear all kinds of tortures without a murmur of resentment is not possible for a human being without the strength that comes from God.
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I would ask you to come in Khadi, for Khadi links you with the fallen and the down-trodden.
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Truth is the right designation of God.
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Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.
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Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As the author of satyagraha I cannot, consistently with my profession, suppress the vital part of myself for the sake of being able to write on permissible subjects. ... It would be like dealing with the trunk without the head.
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In a strictly scientific sense God is at the bottom of both good and evil.
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To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that being but with him, the whole world.
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Nonviolence is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.
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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.