Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Final Satyagraha is inconceivable without an honorable peace between the several communities composing the Indian nation.
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Punishment is God's. He alone is the infallible Judge.
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If I had no sense of humor I should long ago have committed suicide.
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Faith alone is the sun of life.
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The satyagrahi strives to reach reason through the heart. The method of reaching the heart is to awaken public opinion.
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Hinduism loses its right to make a universal appeal if it closes its temples to Harijans.
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A satyagrahi turns the searchlight inward relentlessly to weed out all the defects that may be lying hidden there still.
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I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption.
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True religion being the greatest thing in life and in the world, has been exploited the most.
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The principle of majority does not work when differences on fundamentals are involved.
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Dharma is that which is enjoined by the holy books, followed by the sages, interpreted by the learned and which appeals to the heart.
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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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You can only have lasting peace based on justice.
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Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.
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Nonviolence cannot be learnt by staying at home.
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Labour has its unique place in a cultured human family.
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Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
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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.
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Without action, you aren't going anywhere.
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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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Violent means will give violent swaraj. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
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Mortification of the flesh has been held all the world over as a condition of spiritual progress.
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You are not going to know the meaning of God or prayer unless you reduce yourself to a cipher.
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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.