Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Watches may disagree, but let us not.
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True prayer is not a prelude to inaction.
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Belief in one God is the cornerstone of all religions.
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The music of the spinning wheel will be as balm to your soul.
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If God gives me the privilege of dying for the Hinduism of my conception, I shall have sufficiently died for the unity of all and even for Swaraj.
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There is little that separates humans from other sentient beings - we all feel joy, we all deeply crave to be alive and to live freely, and we all share this planet together.
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You are no Satyagrahi if you remain silent or passive spectators while your enemy is being done to death.
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Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill.
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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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We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not so as to degrade other countries.
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A satyagrahi may not ride two horses, truth and untruth, at the same time, nor, to change the metaphor, trim his sail to catch every breeze as you do in the name of communism.
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All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation.
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There are two days in the year that we can not do anything, yesterday and tomorrow.
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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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I learnt the lesson on nonviolence from my wife, when I tried to bend her to my will. Her determined resistance to my will on the one hand, and her quiet submission to the suffering my stupidity involved on the other, ultimately made me ashamed of myself and cured me of my stupidity in thinking that I was born to rule over her.
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Love is the subtlest force in the world.
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You may think your actions are meaningless and that they won't help, but that is no excuse, you must still act.
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The richest grace of ahimsa will descend easily upon the owner of hard discipline.
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Marriage must cease to be a matter of arrangement made by parents for money.
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Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilized - the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals.
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Find purpose. The means will follow.
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All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles.
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The states can make the finest contribution to the building of India's future independence if they set the right example in their own territories.
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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.