Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Human society is a ceaseless growth, and unfoldment in terms of spirituality.
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When you are right,you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry.
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Birth-control through self-restraint is the most desirable, sensible and totally harmless method.
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In matters concerning religion, I consider myself not a child but an adult with 35 years of experience.
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Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.
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All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.
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Stoning prophets and erecting churches to their memory afterwards has been the way of the world through the ages. Today we worship Christ, but the Christ in the flesh we crucified.
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There is no one without faults, not even men of God. They are men of God not because they are faultless, but because they know their faults, they strive against them, they do not hide them, and are ever ready to correct themselves.
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All the great religions of the world inculcate equality and brotherhood of mankind and the virtue of toleration.
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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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Lovers of Swaraj cannot rest till a solution is found which would allay Mussalman apprehensions and yet not endanger Swaraj.
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The most distinctive and largest contribution of Hinduism to India's culture is the doctrine of ahimsa.
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The power of nonviolent resistance can only come from honest working of the constructive programme.
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Every reform means awakening. Once truly awakened, the nation will not be satisfied with reform only in one department of life.
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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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We cannot have real independence unless the people banish the touch-me-not spirit from their hearts.
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True knowledge gives a moral standing and moral strength.
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To give one's heart is to give all.
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Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways.
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Man lives freely only by his readiness to die.
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Faith alone is the sun of life.
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I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.
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Hinduism loses its right to make a universal appeal if it closes its temples to Harijans.
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A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others.