Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The West has yet to discover anything so hygienic as the Indian toothstick.
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In the midst of death life persists.
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The process of learning should be as far as possible a pleasurable one and not laborious.
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To kill these (rabid) dogs, in my opinion, amount to himsa, but I believe it to be inevitable if we are to escape much greater himsa.
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The human body is meant solely for service, never for indulgence.
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No one chains a slave without chaining himself.
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If there ever is to be a republic of every village in India, then I claim verity for my picture in which the last is equal to the first or, in other words, no one is to be the first and none the last.
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The object of the Gita appears to me to be that of showing the most excellent way to attain self-realization.
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An awakened people who rely upon their nonviolent strength are independent in the face of any conceivable combination of the armed powers.
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I do believe that where there is a choice between cowardice and non-violence I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done, had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908, whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defended me, I told him that it was his duty to defend me even by using violence.
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We must learn to be self-reliant and independent of schools, courts, protection and patronage of a Government we seek to end, if it will not mend.
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The builders of the British Indian Empire have patiently built its four pillars-the European interests, the army, the Indian princes and the communal divisions.
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Unless nonviolence of the strong is really developed among us, there should be no thought of civil disobedience for Swaraj, whether within the states or in British India.
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As long as you are trying your very best, there can be no question of failure.
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God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth and He tries you through and through.
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There is as much need for a change of heart among the Hindus and Mussalmans as there is among the British, before a proper settlement is arrived at.
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It is a crime and a sin to regard a person as untouchable because he is born in a particular community.
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All religions were, at bottom, one, though they differed in detail and outward form like the leaves on a tree.
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The control of the palate is a valuable aid for the control of the mind.
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This belief in God has to be based on faith which transcends reason.
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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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I am not likely to obtain the result flowing from the worship of God by laying myself prostrate before Satan.
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The only devils in the world are those running around in our own hearts - that is where the battle should be fought.
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My errors have been errors of calculation and judging men, not in appreciating the true nature of truth and ahimsa or in their application.