Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Hinduism insists on the brotherhood of not only all mankind but of all that lives.
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It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?
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Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.
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Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.
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Non-co-operation is the nation's notice that it is no longer satisfied to be in tutelage.
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All great religions have rightly regarded kama as the arch-enemy of man, anger or hatred coming only in the second place.
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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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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
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There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
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Every moment of my existence is dedicated to the winning of Swaraj by means of truth and nonviolence.
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For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
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Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.
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I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
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Vaccination is a barbarous practice and one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time. Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand alone, if need be, against the whole world, in defense of their conviction.
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Appreciation of nonviolence means patient research and still more patient and difficult practice.
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Nonviolence succeeds only when we have a real living faith in God.
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I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
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For me the only certain means of knowing God is nonviolence, ahimsa, love.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
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The earth has everything for all human needs, but nothing for his greed.
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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.