Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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You can only have lasting peace based on justice.
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... man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows. I know we must all err. I would give up milk if I could, but I cannot. I have made that experiment times without number. I could not, after a serious illness, regain my strength, unless I went back to milk. That has been the tragedy of my life. But the basis of my vegetarianism is not physical, but moral. If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef tea or mutton, even on medical advice, I would prefer death. That is the basis of my vegetarianism.
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My idea of society is that while we are born equal, meaning that we have a right to equal opportunity, all have not the same capacity.
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When we fear God, then we shall fear no man, however high-placed he may be.
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A spirit is not necessarily purer, because it is disembodied.
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We often confuse spiritual knowledge with spiritual attainment. Spirituality is not a matter of knowing scriptures and engaging in philosophical discussions. It is a matter of heart culture, of unmeasurable strength.
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If Britain wins wholly, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and perhaps even Bolshevik Russia will disappear.
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Life is greater than all art.
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We are all very imperfect and weak things, and if we are to destroy all whose ways we do not like, there will be not a man left alive.
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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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It is my great misfortune that I have to measure your love by the money gifts you give for Daridranarayana.
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There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come by mere academic argument and appeal to reason and logic. Discipline is learnt in the school of adversity.
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The greatest menace to the world today is the growing, exploiting, irresponsible imperialism.
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The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary.
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It is difficult to judge, when both sides are employing weapons of violence, which side 'deserves' to succeed.
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Now the man on duty used to be changed from time to time. Once one of these men, without giving me the slightest warning, without even asking me to leave the footpath, pushed and kicked me into the street. I was dismayed. Before I could question him as to his behaviour, Mr Coates, who happened to be passing the spot on horseback, hailed me and said: 'Gandhi, I have seen everything. I shall gladly be your witness in court if you proceed against the man. I am very sorry you have been so rudely assaulted.'
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Our struggle does not end so long as there is a single human being considered untouchable on account of his birth.
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What is imprisonment to the man who is fearless of death itself?
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Final Satyagraha is inconceivable without an honorable peace between the several communities composing the Indian nation.
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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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Prosecution of the constructive programme means constructing the structure of Swaraj.
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Human society is a ceaseless growth, and unfoldment in terms of spirituality.
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Healthy and nourishing food was the only alpha and omega of rural economy.
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Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world.