Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas the former ruins the soul and there is no cure for it.
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This belief in God has to be based on faith which transcends reason.
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I learned from Hussain how to be wronged and be a winner, I learnt from Hussain how to attain victory while being oppressed.
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A nonviolent system of government is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists.
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I may have become Christian, were it not for Christians.
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I know that man who forsakes Truth can forsake his country and his nearest and dearest ones.
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The Gita has become for me the key to the scriptures of the world.
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The deepest spiritual truths are always unutterable.
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Civil disobedience is the inherent right of a citizen.
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Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways.
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Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice.
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I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.
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Civil disobedience can never be in general terms, such as for independence.
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What is wanted is a deliberate giving up of violence out of strength.
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Though philosophical Hinduism has no other god but God, it cannot be denied that practical Hinduism is not so emphatically uncompromising as Islam.
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No one chains a slave without chaining himself.
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Happiness, the goal to which we all are striving is reached by endeavoring to make the lives of others happy, and if by renouncing the luxuries of life we can lighten the burdens of others.... surely the simplification of our wants is a thing greatly to be desired! And so, if instead of supposing that we must become hermits and dwellers in caves in order to practice simplicity, we set about simplifying our affairs, each according to his own convictions and opportunity, much good will result and the simple life will at once be established.
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Is the God of the Mahometan different from the God of the Hindu? Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal? Wherein is the cause for quarreling?
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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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It is no religion to have for one's wife a girl who is fit only to sit in one's lap, it is the height of irreligion.
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It is claimed for satyagraha that it is a complete substitute for violence or war.
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Evil is, good or truth misplaced.
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The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully ready to die, he will not even desire to offer violence. Indeed, I may put it down as a self-evident proposition that the desire to kill is in inverse proportion to the desire to die. And history is replete with instances of men who by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.
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The message of khaddar can penetrate to the remotest villages if we only will that it shall be so.