Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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True beauty lies in purity of the heart.
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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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Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law.
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My religion teaches me that I should, by my personal conduct, instill into the minds of those who might hold different views the conviction that cow killing is a sin.
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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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The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities.
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The Bhagavad-Gita calls on humanity to dedicate body, mind and soul to pure duty and not to become mental voluptuaries at the mercy of random desires and undisciplined impulses.
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Openness of mind strengthens the truth in us and removes the dross from it, if there is any.
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The power of nonviolent resistance can only come from honest working of the constructive programme.
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The turning of the charkha in a lifeless way will be like the turning of the beads of the rosary with a wandering mind turned away from God.
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Freedom of India will demonstrate to all the exploited races of the earth that their freedom is very near.
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Cow-protection can only be secured by cultivating universal friendliness, i.e. ahimsa.
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Virtue lies in being absorbed in one's prayers in the presence of din and noise.
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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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Deeds and seeds, take their own time to fructify.
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The world is big enough to satisfy everyones needs, but will always be too small to satisfy everyones greed.
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Violence is bound sooner or later to exhaust itself but peace cannot issue out of such exhaustion.
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One thing we have endeavoured to observe most scrupulously, namely, never to depart from the strictest facts and, in dealing with the difficult questions that have arisen during the year, we hope that we have used the utmost moderation possible under the circumstances.
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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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Prosecution of the constructive programme means constructing the structure of Swaraj.
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Wherever flaxseeds become a regular food item among the people, there will be better health.
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So long as untouchability disfigures Hinduism, so long do I hold the attainment of Swaraj to be an utter impossibility.
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I must rebel against the idea that millions of Indians, who were Hindus, the other day, changed their nationality on adopting Islam as their religion.