Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be.
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Ahimsa is nothing if not a well-balanced, exquisite consideration for one's neighbour, and an idle man is wanting in that elementary consideration.
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Do not believe in telling people of one's faith, especially with a view to conversion. Faith must be lived, and when it is, it becomes self-propagating.
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Whatever can be useful to those starving millions is beautiful to my mind.
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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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"All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense.
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Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two. What is obtained by love is retained for all time. What is obtained by hatred proves a burden in reality for it increases hatred." - by Mohandas K. Gandhi -
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Mother cow is in many ways better than the mother who gave us birth.
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Nothing can be more hurtful to an honourable man than that he should be accused of bad faith.
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My doctrine means that I must identify myself with life, with everything that lives, that I must share the majesty of life in the presence of God. The sum-total of this life is God. .. Man is not at peace with himself until he has become like unto God. The endeavor to reach this state is the supreme, the only ambition worth having. And this is self-realisation. This self-realisation is the subject of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures... to be a real devotee is to realise oneself. Self-realisation is not something apart.
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The commerce between India and Africa will be of ideas and services, not of the manufactured goods against raw materials after the fashion of the Western exploiters.
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Through Khadi we teach the people the art of civil obedience to an institution which they have built up for themselves.
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Moral restrictions tend to become lax in a foreign country, since the fear of social opinion disappears.
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Truth and ahimsa will never be destroyed.
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A satyagrahi has always his minimum and it is this minimum that is wanted in connection with this struggle.
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And whilst he may not claim superiority by reason of learning, I myself must not withold that meed of homage that learning, wherever it resides, always commands.
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Coercion cannot but result in chaos in the end.
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The measure of a country's greatness should be based on how well it cares for its most vulnerable populations.
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India unarmed would not require to be destroyed through poison gas or bombardment.
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Truth and nonviolence are perhaps the activest forces you have in the world.
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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 golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one.
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Whatever one does cheerfully is good for health.
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All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.