Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The deepest spiritual truths are always unutterable.
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Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.
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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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Work without faith is like an attempt to reach the bottom of a bottomless pit.
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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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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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Life is one indivisible whole.
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I hold it a blasphemy to say that the Creator resides in a temple from which a particular class of His devotees sharing faith in it are excluded.
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To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice.
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Democracy demands patient instruction on it before legislation.
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India's freedom must revolutionize the world's outlook upon Peace and War.
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A nonviolent struggle necessarily involves construction on a small scale. It cannot therefore lead to tamas or darkness or inertia.
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Imperialism is a negation of God. It does ungodly acts in the name of God.
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Freedom of a nation cannot be won by solitary acts of heroism though they may be of the true type, never by heroism so called.
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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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Those who think religion has nothing to do with politics understand neither religion or politics... The things that will destroy us are: politics without principles, pleasures without conscience, knowledge without character, business without morality.
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In a strictly scientific sense God is at the bottom of both good and evil.
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I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher.
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I do not regard killing or assassination or terrorism as good in any circumstances whatsoever.
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It was our love of foreign cloth that ousted the wheel from its position of dignity.
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Satyagraha is a law for universal application. Beginning with the family, its use can be extended to every other circle.
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A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience.
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Boycott brought about anyhow of British cloth cannot yield the same results as such boycott brought about by hand-spinning and khaddar.
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The world is touched by sacrifice. It does not then discriminate about the merits of a cause. No so God - He is all seeing. He insists on the purity of the cause and on adequate sacrifice thereof.