Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
-
A satyagrahi should have a living faith in God.
-
Whatever may be the pros and cons of going to the public theatre, it is a patent fact that it has undermined the morals and ruined the character of many a youth in his country.
-
Khaddar has the greatest organizing power in it because it has itself to be organized and because it affects all India.
-
I well remember how the thoughts I had up to the time of my discharge from the jail on every occasion were modified immediately after discharge, and after getting first-hand information myself. Somehow or other the jail atmosphere does not allow you to have all the bearings in your mind.
-
Let no one try to justify the glaring difference between the classes and the masses, the prince and the pauper, by saying that the former need more.
-
India's freedom must revolutionize the world's outlook upon Peace and War.
-
Seeing God face to face is to feel that He is enthroned in our hearts even as a child feels a mother's affection without needing any demonstration.
-
People become what they expect themselves to become.
-
Hindu religious literature, indeed all religious literature, is full of illustrations to prove the truth.
-
The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.
-
Truth and nonviolence are perhaps the activest forces you have in the world.
-
My life has been full of external tragedies and if they have not left any visible effect on me, I owe it to the teaching of the Bhagavadgita.
-
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. There is nothing more potent than thought. Deed follows word and word follows thought. The word is the result of a mighty thought, and where the thought is mighty and pure the result is always mighty and pure.
-
Britain's success in the exploitation of non-European races raised the ambition of Bismarck and later Mussolini and others.
-
Whilst power, superimposed, always needs the help of the police and the military, power generated from within should have little or no use of them.
-
A spirit is not necessarily purer, because it is disembodied.
-
What is Truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the "voice within" tells you. All that I can in true humility present to you is that Truth is not to be found by anybody who has not got an abundant sense of humility. If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth you must reduce yourself to zero.
-
Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something,it makes me incapable of doing it. When I believe I can,I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn’t have it in the beginning.
-
Man's upward progress means ever increasing difficulty, which is to be welcomed.
-
I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice.
-
Nonviolence in politics is a new weapon in the process of evolution; its vast possibilities are yet unexplored.
-
One must become as humble as the dust before he can discover truth.
-
Nothing in the Shastra, which is manifestly contrary to universal truths and morals, can stand.
-
Marriage must cease to be a matter of arrangement made by parents for money.