Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice.
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Britain's success in the exploitation of non-European races raised the ambition of Bismarck and later Mussolini and others.
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Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large.
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Weeding is as necessary to agriculture as sowing.
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This belief in God has to be based on faith which transcends reason.
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The nation cannot be kept on the nonviolent path by violence.
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Exercise of faith will be the safest where there is a clear determination summarily to reject all that is contrary to truth and love.
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In order that knowledge may not run riot, the author of the Gita has insisted on devotion accompanying it and has given it the first place.
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Prosecution of the constructive programme means constructing the structure of Swaraj.
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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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Whilst power, superimposed, always needs the help of the police and the military, power generated from within should have little or no use of them.
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No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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God is the vital force or spirit which is all-pervading, all-embracing and, therefore, beyond human ken.
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A country whose culture is based on nonviolence will find it necessary to have every home as much self-contained as possible.
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Men flocked to see it and ascended it as it was a novelty and of unique dimensions. It was the toy of the exhibition. So long as we are children we are attracted by toys, and the tower was a good demonstration of the fact that we are all children attracted by trinkets. That may be claimed to be the purpose served by the Eiffel Tower.
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The object of the Gita appears to me to be that of showing the most excellent way to attain self-realization.
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Truth triumphs, even if there be no public support.
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One must become as humble as the dust before he can discover truth.
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Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society.
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Religion all the world over offeres God as the solace and comfort for all in agony.
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Every truth is self-acting and possesses inherent strength.
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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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Unless nonviolence of the strong is really developed among us, there should be no thought of civil disobedience for Swaraj, whether within the states or in British India.
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A satyagrahi turns the searchlight inward relentlessly to weed out all the defects that may be lying hidden there still.