Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Fear of disease killed more men than disease itself.
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If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.
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My ambition is much higher than independence. Through the deliverance of India, I seek to deliver the so-called weaker races of the Earth from the crushing heels of Western exploitation in which England is the greatest partner.
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
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The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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If we want to impart education best suited to the needs of the villagers, we should take the vidyapith to the villages.
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The earth has everything for all human needs, but nothing for his greed.
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A society organized and run on the basis of complete nonviolence would be the purest anarchy… That State is perfect and non-violent where the people are governed the least.
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There's no God higher than truth.
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We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.
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But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
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Freedom battles are not fought without paying heavy prices.
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Even a little of dharma saves one from many a pitfall.
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Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
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The good man is the friend of all living things.
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For me nonviolence is a creed. I must act up to it, whether I am alone or have companions.
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Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
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If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
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When you surrender completely to God, as the only truth worth having, you find yourself in service of all that exists. It becomes your joy and recreation. You never tire of serving others.
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Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
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The greater our innocence, the greater our strength and the swifter our victory.
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Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.
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I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.