Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Religious truth, or for that matter any truth, requires a calm and meditative atmosphere for its percolation.
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The real difficulty is that people have no idea of what education truly is. We assess the value of education in the same manner as we assess the value of land or of shares in the stock-exchange market. We want to provide only such education as would enable the student to earn more. We hardly give any thought to the improvement of the character of the educated. The girls, we say, do not have to earn; so why should they be educated? As long as such ideas persist there is no hope of our ever knowing the true value of education.
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God never occurs to you in person but always in action.
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We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime.
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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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Even if the whole of India, ranged on one side, were to declare that Hindu-Muslim unity is impossible, I will declare that it is perfectly possible.
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If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality.
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It is poor faith that needs fair weather for standing firm. That alone is true faith that stands the foulest weather.
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The Gita has become for me the key to the scriptures of the world.
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No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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If it had not been for the Christians that I have known I might have been a Christian.
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Truth is my God. I can only search Him through nonviolence and in on other way.
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The deepest spiritual truths are always unutterable.
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Ahimsa is one of the world's great principles, which no power on earth can wipe out.
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Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire.
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My religion has no geographical limits.
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I desire no honour if I have to conceal my religious beliefs in order to have it.
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If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.
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A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution.
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It is claimed for satyagraha that it is a complete substitute for violence or war.
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Everything that we do is insignificant...and...it is very important that we do it!
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Disorder and violence are, in fact, things that might check the pace of India's progress.
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It is difficult to judge, when both sides are employing weapons of violence, which side 'deserves' to succeed.
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We cannot have real independence unless the people banish the touch-me-not spirit from their hearts.