Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Peace is the most powerful weapon of mankind.
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Newspapers should be read for the study of facts. They should not be allowed to kill the habit of independent thinking.
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I implicitly believe in the truth of the saying that not a blade of grass moves but by His will. He will save it (my life) if He needs it for further service in this body. None can save it against His will.
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If we will take care of today, God will take care of the morrow.
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The moral to be legitimately drawn from the supreme tragedy of the bomb is that it will not be destroyed by counter bombs even as violence cannot be by counter-violence.
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The votary of ahimsa has only one fear, that is, of God.
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Hinduism is like the Ganga, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga it is beneficent in its total effect. It takes a provincial form in every province, but the inner substance is retained everywhere.
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A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat.
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A congregational prayer is a means for establishing essential human unity though common worship.
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What is wanted is a deliberate giving up of violence out of strength.
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The West has yet to discover anything so hygienic as the Indian toothstick.
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I well remember how the thoughts I had up to the time of my discharge from the jail on every occasion were modified immediately after discharge, and after getting first-hand information myself. Somehow or other the jail atmosphere does not allow you to have all the bearings in your mind.
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This belief in God has to be based on faith which transcends reason.
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I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of Hussein, the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers and his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle.
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One thing we have endeavoured to observe most scrupulously, namely, never to depart from the strictest facts and, in dealing with the difficult questions that have arisen during the year, we hope that we have used the utmost moderation possible under the circumstances.
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Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society.
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Ramanama is for the pure at heart and for those who want to attain purity and remain pure.
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Though we are politically free, we are hardly free from the subtle domination of the West.
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Every truth is self-acting and possesses inherent strength.
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I suffer snakes to be killed in the ashram when it is impossible to catch them and put them out of harm's way.
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I have no weapon but nonviolence.
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Truth is God, and truth overrides all our plans.
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Prosecution of the constructive programme means constructing the structure of Swaraj.
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The most distinctive and largest contribution of Hinduism to India's culture is the doctrine of ahimsa.