Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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There is always enough for the needy, there is never enough for the greedy.
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A teetotaler would regard it as his duty to associate with his drunkard brother for the purpose of weaning him from the evil habit.
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The voice of the people may be said to be God's voice, the voice of the Panchayat.
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A nonviolent struggle necessarily involves construction on a small scale. It cannot therefore lead to tamas or darkness or inertia.
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A man of faith will remain steadfast to truth even though the whole world might appear to be enveloped in falsehood.
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Truth without humility would be an arrogant caricature.
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An error can never become true however many times you repeat it. The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.
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Hate the sin and not the sinner' is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.
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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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When we fear God, then we shall fear no man, however high-placed he may be.
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Retreat itself is often a plan of resistance and may be a precursor of great bravery and sacrifice. Every retreat is not cowardice which implies fear to die.
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You will not pit one word of God against another word of God.
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Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion.
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Violence can only be effectively met by nonviolence. This is an old established truth.
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I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.
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My purpose is to describe experiments in the science ofsatyagraha and not at all to describe how good I am.
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A jailer is as much a prisoner as his prisoner.
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Violence will prevail over violence, only when someone can prove to me that darkness can be dispelled by darkness.
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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.
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An India prostrate at the feet of Europe can give no hope to humanity.
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I would like to bury myself in an Indian village, preferably in a Frontier village.
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Mortification of the flesh has been held all the world over as a condition of spiritual progress.
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I realized the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. The lesson was so indelibly burnt into me that a large part of my time during the twenty years of my practice as a lawyer was occupied in bringing about private compromises of hundreds of cases. I lost nothing thereby -- not even money, certainly not my soul.
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Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.