Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Hinduism would not have been much of a religion if Rama had not steeled his heart against every temptation.
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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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If Britain wins wholly, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and perhaps even Bolshevik Russia will disappear.
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The Britisher is the top dog and the Indian the underdog in his own country.
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Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.
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If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern!
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Coercion cannot but result in chaos in the end.
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It is no religion to have for one's wife a girl who is fit only to sit in one's lap, it is the height of irreligion.
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Those who are truthful, nonviolent and brave do not cease to be so because of the stupidity of their leader.
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All the dry ethics of the world turn to dust because apart from God they are lifeless.
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Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character.
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You cannot neglect the nearer duty for the sake of a remote.
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If hand-spinning is an effective method of making India self-supporting, it must be made part of the franchise.
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A person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see his goal; he sees only his opposition and the obstacles before him.
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Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority.
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I could not be leading a religious life unless I identified myself with the whole of mankind, and that I could not do unless I took part in politics.
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The nation's non-co-operation is an invitation to the Government to co-operate with it on its own terms, as is every nation's right and every good government's duty.
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Whatever can be useful to those starving millions is beautiful to my mind.
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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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What is life worth without trials and tribulations which are the salt of life.
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True beauty consists of purity of heart.
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If you do nothing there will be no results.
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The Bhagavad-Gita calls on humanity to dedicate body, mind and soul to pure duty and not to become mental voluptuaries at the mercy of random desires and undisciplined impulses.
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The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one.