Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Even if the whole of India, ranged on one side, were to declare that Hindu-Muslim unity is impossible, I will declare that it is perfectly possible.
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Our prayer is a heart search. It is a reminder to ourselves that we are helpless without His support.
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All religions were, at bottom, one, though they differed in detail and outward form like the leaves on a tree.
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What is life worth without trials and tribulations which are the salt of life.
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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle, and a victory.
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If India becomes the slave of the machine, then, I say, heaven save the world.
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Organization of khaddar is infinitely better than co-operative societies or any other form of village organization.
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If love or non – violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces.
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We find the general work of mankind is being carried on from day to day by the mass of people acting in harmony as if by instinct. If they were instinctively violent, the world would end in no time.
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I still believe that man, not having been given the power of creation, does not posses the right of destroying the meanest creature that lives. The perogative of destruction belongs solely to the Creator of all that lives.
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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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The Charkha is the symbol of sacrifice, and sacrifice is essential for the establishment of the image of the deity.
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Violence can only be effectively met by nonviolence. This is an old established truth.
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Is the God of the Mahometan different from the God of the Hindu? Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal? Wherein is the cause for quarreling?
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Religion is not what is grasped by the brain, but a heart grasp.
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My knowledge of the letter of the Shastras is better, but of true religion they are able to give me but little.
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The external is in no way the essence of religion, but the external often proclaims the internal.
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Evil is, good or truth misplaced.
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You are not going to know the meaning of God or prayer unless you reduce yourself to a cipher.
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If you want to change the world, start with yourself.
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What is faith if it is not translated into action?
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A literal interpretation of the Gita lands one in a sea of contradictions.
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If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.
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The hardest metal yields to sufficient heat. Even so must the hardest heart melt before sufficiency of the heat of non- violence. And there is no limit to the capacity of non-violence to generate heat.