Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Swaraj, without any qualifying clause, includes that which is better than the best one can conceive or have today.
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I claim to be no more than the average person with less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.
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We are all very imperfect and weak things, and if we are to destroy all whose ways we do not like, there will be not a man left alive.
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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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Before we can aspire to guide the destinies of India, we shall have to adopt the habit of fearlessness.
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My freedom from hatred - I would even claim for myself individually, my love - for those who consider themselves to be my enemies, does not make me blind to their faults.
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If you must kill English officials, why not kill me instead?
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Unrestricted individualism is the law of the beast of the jungle.
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Prayer from the heart can achieve what nothing else can in the world.
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A congregational prayer is a means for establishing essential human unity though common worship.
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Everything that we do is insignificant...and...it is very important that we do it!
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Love is needed to strengthen the weak; love becomes tyrannical when it exacts obedience from an unbeliever.
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I don't reject Christ. I love Christ. It's just that so many of you Christians are so unlike Christ.
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To reject the necessity of temples is to reject the necessity of God, religion and earthly existence.
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A nonviolent man cannot desire embarrassment.
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True religion being the greatest thing in life and in the world, has been exploited the most.
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If we will take care of today, God will take care of the morrow.
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You may think your actions are meaningless and that they won't help, but that is no excuse, you must still act.
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Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large.
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There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it.
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Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants.
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The reaction that a ruthless dictator sets up in us either that of awe or pity according respectively as we react to him violently on nonviolently.
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Mortification of the flesh has been held all the world over as a condition of spiritual progress.
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Every labourer is worthy of his hire. No country can produce thousands of unpaid whole-time workers.