Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The ideal is a synthesis of the different cultures that have come to stay in India, that have influenced Indian life, and that, in their turn, have themselves been influenced by the spirit of the soil.
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Nonviolence is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.
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A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution.
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You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees.
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Life is greater than all art.
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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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There is little that separates humans from other sentient beings - we all feel joy, we all deeply crave to be alive and to live freely, and we all share this planet together.
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What crimes, for which we condemn the Government as satanic, have not we been guilty of towards our own untouchable brethren?
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Whatever can be useful to those starving millions is beautiful to my mind.
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I do believe that ideas ripen quickly when nourished by the blood of martyrs.
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God is not outside this earthly case of ours.
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Hinduism dies if untouchability lives, and untouchability has to die if Hinduism is to live.
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Where death without resistance or death after resistance is the only way, neither party should think of resorting to law-courts or help from the government.
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Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength, and there is nothing automatic or intuitive about the resoluteness required for using non-violent methods in political struggle and the quest for Truth.
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Religion is entirely a personal matter. Each one could approach his Creator as he liked.
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As the means, so the end.
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In times to come people will not judge us by the creed we profess or the label we wear or the slogans we shout, but, by our work, industry, sacrifice, honesty and purity of character.
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The early Mussalmans accepted Islam not because they knew it to be revealed but because it appealed to their virgin reason.
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Cow-protection can only be secured by cultivating universal friendliness, i.e. ahimsa.
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A satyagrahi, whilst he is ever ready to fight, must be equally eager for peace.
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You will not pit one word of God against another word of God.
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The essence of true religious teaching is that one should serve and befriend all.
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The chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man.
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True beauty lies in purity of the heart.