Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The music of the spinning wheel will be as balm to your soul.
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I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them, and while I hold by my own religion, I should hold other religions as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we were Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu; but our innermost prayer should be that a Hindu should become a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, and a Christian a better Christian.
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In Hinduism we have got an admirable foot-rule to measure every shastra and every rule of conduct, and that is truth.
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Belief in one God is the cornerstone of all religions.
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Labour has its unique place in a cultured human family.
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Hindu Dharma is like a boundless ocean teeming with priceless gems. The deeper you dive the more treasures you find.
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Hinduism dies if untouchability lives, and untouchability has to die if Hinduism is to live.
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It is difficult to judge, when both sides are employing weapons of violence, which side 'deserves' to succeed.
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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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There are two days in the year that we can not do anything, yesterday and tomorrow.
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Life is greater than all art.
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Find purpose. The means will follow.
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We must learn to be self-reliant and independent of schools, courts, protection and patronage of a Government we seek to end, if it will not mend.
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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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We may not go about parroting truth and nonviolence and steering clear of them in our daily life.
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The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country's and ultimately that of the whole of mankind.
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If I were asked to define the Hindu creed, I should simply say: search after Truth through non-violent means. Hinduism is a relentless pursuit after truth.
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There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come by mere academic argument and appeal to reason and logic. Discipline is learnt in the school of adversity.
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How can I even secretly harbour the thought that my neighbour's faith is inferior to mine?
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Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God.
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If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.
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It is a crime and a sin to regard a person as untouchable because he is born in a particular community.
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Whatever one does cheerfully is good for health.
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Forces of nature act in a mysterious manner. We can but solve the mystery by deducing the unknown result from the known results of similar events.