Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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"Do not worry in the least about yourself, leave all worry to God" this appears to be the commandment in all religions.
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The woman who knows and fulfils her duty realizes her dignified status.
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The Bhagavad-Gita calls on humanity to dedicate body, mind and soul to pure duty and not to become mental voluptuaries at the mercy of random desires and undisciplined impulses.
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Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas.
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An education which does not teach us to discriminate between good and bad, to assimilate the one and eschew the other, is a misnomer.
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God is not in strength but in truth.
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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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God rules even where Satan seems to hold sway, because the latter exists only on God's sufferance.
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If hand-spinning is an effective method of making India self-supporting, it must be made part of the franchise.
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Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.
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What crimes, for which we condemn the Government as satanic, have not we been guilty of towards our own untouchable brethren?
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Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger... . Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice.
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God can never be realized by one who is not pure of heart.
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Armed conspiracies against something satanic is like matching Satans against Satan.
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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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Marriage must cease to be a matter of arrangement made by parents for money.
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I am, and have been for years, a confirmed anti-vaccinationist...I have not the least doubt in my mind that vaccination is a filthy process that is harmful in the end.
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A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution.
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It is difficult for me to regard anyone who obeys no moral principle in his conduct to be a religious man.
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Freedom of India will demonstrate to all the exploited races of the earth that their freedom is very near.
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The real difficulty is that people have no idea of what education truly is. We assess the value of education in the same manner as we assess the value of land or of shares in the stock-exchange market. We want to provide only such education as would enable the student to earn more. We hardly give any thought to the improvement of the character of the educated. The girls, we say, do not have to earn; so why should they be educated? As long as such ideas persist there is no hope of our ever knowing the true value of education.
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There is already enough superstition in our country. No effort should be spared to resist further addition in the shape of Gandhi worship.
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Hinduism loses its right to make a universal appeal if it closes its temples to Harijans.
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Man's upward progress means ever increasing difficulty, which is to be welcomed.