Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Speed is irrelevant if you are going in the wrong direction.
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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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I eat to live, to serve, and also, if it so happens, to enjoy, but I do not eat for the sake of enjoyment.
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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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Deeds and seeds, take their own time to fructify.
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But the fact that I had learnt to be tolerant to other religions did not mean that I had any living faith in God.
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Whatever else India may not be, she is at least one thing, She is the greatest storehouse of spiritual knowledge.
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A nonviolent warrior knows no leaving the battle. He rushes into the mouth of himsa, never even once harbouring an evil thought.
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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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It is the best thing to blame ourselves when people cannot get on well with us. Boundless charity necessarily includes all or it ceases to be boundless. We must be strict with ourselves and lenient with our neighbors. For we know not their difficulties and what they overcome.
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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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Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice.
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Religion is a thing to be lived. It is not merely sophistry.
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My austerities, fasting and prayers are, I know, of no value if I rely upon them for reforming me. My penance is the prayer of a bleeding heart for forgiveness for sins unwittingly committed.
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At times, non-cooperation becomes as much a duty as cooperation.
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I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of Hussein, the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers and his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle.
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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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Contraceptive methods are like putting a premium on vice. It makes men and women reckless... As it is, man has sufficiently degraded woman for his lust, and [contraception] , no matter how well meaning the advocates may be, will still further degrade her.
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Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas.
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True knowledge gives a moral standing and moral strength.
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All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.
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My life has been full of external tragedies and if they have not left any visible effect on me, I owe it to the teaching of the Bhagavadgita.
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What is Truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the "voice within" tells you. All that I can in true humility present to you is that Truth is not to be found by anybody who has not got an abundant sense of humility. If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth you must reduce yourself to zero.
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No religion taught man to kill fellowmen because he held different opinions or was of another religion.