Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
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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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For me nonviolence is a creed. I must act up to it, whether I am alone or have companions.
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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.
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If we want to impart education best suited to the needs of the villagers, we should take the vidyapith to the villages.
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Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.
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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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Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
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Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.
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As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality. Man, for instance, cannot be untruthful, cruel or incontinent and claim to have God on his side.
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Fear of disease killed more men than disease itself.
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Even a little of dharma saves one from many a pitfall.
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We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
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The seeker is at liberty to extract from this treasure any meaning he likes, so as to enable him to enforce in his life the central teaching.
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In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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The call of the spinning wheel is the noblest of all. Because it is the call of love. And love is Swaraj.
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I am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom.'
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I saw that bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education.
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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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A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
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God's grace and revelation are the monopoly of no race or nation.
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The greater our innocence, the greater our strength and the swifter our victory.
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The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.