Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
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When you surrender completely to God, as the only truth worth having, you find yourself in service of all that exists. It becomes your joy and recreation. You never tire of serving others.
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I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
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The greater our innocence, the greater our strength and the swifter our victory.
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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
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Man is the maker of his own destiny, and I therefore ask you to become makers of your own destiny.
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Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.
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Our existence as embodied beings is purely momentary; what are a hundred years in eternity? But if we shatter the chains of egotism, and melt into the ocean of humanity, we share its dignity. To feel that we are something is to set up a barrier between God and ourselves; to cease feeling that we are something, is to become one with God.
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It is a mark of wisdom not to kick away the very step from which we have risen higher. The removal of one step from a staircase brings down the whole of it.
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The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
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Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.
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I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong.
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Non-co-operation is the nation's notice that it is no longer satisfied to be in tutelage.
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The finite human being shall never know in its fullness Truth and Love which is itself infinite.
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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
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As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist.
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There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.
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All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.
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God's grace and revelation are the monopoly of no race or nation.
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Truth should so humble that even dust could crush it.
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Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.