Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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If you want something done, ask. If you want something done quickly, ask, and then begin counting down from ten with no explanation.
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A fearless woman who knows that her purity is her best shield can never be dishonoured.
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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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The real difficulty is that people have no idea of what education truly is. We assess the value of education in the same manner as we assess the value of land or of shares in the stock-exchange market. We want to provide only such education as would enable the student to earn more. We hardly give any thought to the improvement of the character of the educated. The girls, we say, do not have to earn; so why should they be educated? As long as such ideas persist there is no hope of our ever knowing the true value of education.
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Spiritual instruments suffer in their potency when their use is taught through non-spiritual messages which are self-propagating.
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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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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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If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek.
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Mere brave speech without action is letting off useless steam.
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I hold it a blasphemy to say that the Creator resides in a temple from which a particular class of His devotees sharing faith in it are excluded.
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If India won her freedom through truth and non-violence, India would not only point the way to all the exploited Asiatic nations, she would become a torch-bearer for the Negro races.
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If we know how much passive violence we perpetrate against one another, we will understand why there is so much physical violence plaguing societies and the world.
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Independence of my conception means nothing less than the realization of the "Kingdom of God" within you and on this earth.
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Only my death will determine whether I am 'Mohamed Gandhi', Jinnah's slave, destroyer of the Hindu religion or its servant and protector.
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The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities.
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Non-cooperation with evil is a sacred duty.
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Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire.
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It is poor faith that needs fair weather for standing firm. That alone is true faith that stands the foulest weather.
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It is my great misfortune that I have to measure your love by the money gifts you give for Daridranarayana.
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Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment.
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My errors have been errors of calculation and judging men, not in appreciating the true nature of truth and ahimsa or in their application.
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Democracy will break under the strain of apron strings. It can exist only on trust.
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God will cease to be God, if he brought into being a single person with the hall-mark of inferiority.
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If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern!