Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Exploitation of the poor can be extinguished not by effecting the destruction of a few millionaires, but by removing the ignorance of the poor and teaching them to non-cooperate with their exploiters.
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To kill these (rabid) dogs, in my opinion, amount to himsa, but I believe it to be inevitable if we are to escape much greater himsa.
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My idea of society is that while we are born equal, meaning that we have a right to equal opportunity, all have not the same capacity.
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There is no one without faults, not even men of God. They are men of God not because they are faultless, but because they know their faults, they strive against them, they do not hide them, and are ever ready to correct themselves.
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If I had no sense of humor I should long ago have committed suicide.
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India must protect her primary industries even as a mother protects her children against the whole world without being hostile to it.
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The music of the spinning wheel will be as balm to your soul.
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Men flocked to see it and ascended it as it was a novelty and of unique dimensions. It was the toy of the exhibition. So long as we are children we are attracted by toys, and the tower was a good demonstration of the fact that we are all children attracted by trinkets. That may be claimed to be the purpose served by the Eiffel Tower.
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We are the makers of our own state and...individuals who realize the fact need not, ought not, to wait for collective action.
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I would ask you to come in Khadi, for Khadi links you with the fallen and the down-trodden.
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The path is the goal.
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Peace is the most powerful weapon of mankind.
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Study men laying down their lives without hurting anyone else in the cause of their country's freedom.
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A man of prayer regards what are known as physical calamities as divine chastisement.
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Truth is the right designation of God.
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The cow to me is a sermon on pity.
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The woman who knows and fulfils her duty realizes her dignified status.
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Today, as it was 2,000 years ago, the Kingdom of God is within each of us. It is not within a church, a temple, a mosque or synagogue.
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No sophistry, no jugglery in figures can explain away the evidence that the skeletons in many villages present to the naked eye.
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[It] is impossible for us to establish a living vital connection with the masses unless we will work for them, through them and in their midst, not as their patrons but as their servants.
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No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.
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What is wanted is a deliberate giving up of violence out of strength.
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The force of the spirit is ever progressive and endless. Its full expression makes it unconquerable in the world.
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My commitment is to truth not consistency.