Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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A personal selfish prayer is bad whether made before an image or an unseen God.
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The socialistic conception of the West was born in an environment reeking with violence.
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I may not unnerve myself while I can struggle against evil.
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My love of the British is equal to that of my own people.
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Speed is irrelevant if you are going in the wrong direction.
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To kill these (rabid) dogs, in my opinion, amount to himsa, but I believe it to be inevitable if we are to escape much greater himsa.
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Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a free agent, and knows no distinction between virtue and vice, good and evil. Man, being a free agent, knows these distinctions, and when he follows his higher nature, shows himself far superior to the brute, but when he follows his baser nature can show himself lower than the brute.
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Imperfect men have no right to judge other imperfect men.
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This belief in God has to be based on faith which transcends reason.
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My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."
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Ahimsa and Truth are so intertwined that it is practically impossible to disentangle and separate them.
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I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of Hussein, the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers and his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle.
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A democrat should not rely upon the force of the arms his state could flaunt in the face of the world, but on the moral force his state could put at the disposal of the world.
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Character alone will have real effect on the masses.
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I am a Hindu by birth. And yet I do not know much of Hinduism, and I know less of other religions. In fact I do not know where I am, and what is and what should be my belief. I intend to make a careful study of my own religion and, as far as I can, of other religions as well.
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You can only have lasting peace based on justice.
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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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The voice of the people may be said to be God's voice, the voice of the Panchayat.
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Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.
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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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"All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense.
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The Charkha is the symbol of sacrifice, and sacrifice is essential for the establishment of the image of the deity.
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Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society.
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Real non-cooperation is non-cooperation with evil and not with the evil-doer.