Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Be truthful, gentle, and fearless.
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Just as the body cannot exist without blood, so the soul needs the matchless and pure strength of faith.
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Our struggle does not end so long as there is a single human being considered untouchable on account of his birth.
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If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef-tea or mutton, even under medical advice, I would prefer death.
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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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It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.
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My fast is, among other things, meant to qualify me for achieving that equal and selfless love.
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Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. If we want the Arms Act to be repealed, if we want to learn the use of arms, here is a golden opportunity. If the middle classes render voluntary help to Government in the hour of its trial, distrust will disappear, and the ban on possessing arms will be withdrawn.
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Hatred is not essential for nationalism. Race hatred will kill the real national spirit.
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A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all.
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I believe in the absolute oneness of God and, therefore, also of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but one soul. The rays of the sun are many through refraction. But they have the same source. I cannot, therefore, detach myself from the wickedest soul (nor may I be denied identity with the most virtuous).
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Think for tomorrow but act for today.
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Celebration of Independence Day with great pomp and show was quite appropriate when we were fighting for independence which we had neither seen nor handled. Now we have handled it and we seem to be disillusioned. At least - I am, even if you are not. What are we celebrating today? Surely, not our disillusionment.
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In a strictly scientific sense God is at the bottom of both good and evil.
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True beauty lies in purity of the heart.
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The weak can never forgive.
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The nation cannot be kept on the nonviolent path by violence.
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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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Confession of one's guilt purifies and uplifts. Its suppression is degrading and should always be avoided.
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It is impossible that God, who is the God of Justice, could have made the distinctions that men observe today in the name of religion.
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See the good in people and help them.
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The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.
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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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All religions enjoined worship of the One God who is all-pervasive. He is present even in a drop of water or in a tiny speck of dust.