Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.
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So long as untouchability disfigures Hinduism, so long do I hold the attainment of Swaraj to be an utter impossibility.
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For a fallen India to aspire to move the world and protect the weaker races is seemingly an impertinence.
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I isolate this non-co-operation from Sinn Feinism, for it is so conceived as to be incapable of being offered side by side with violence.
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I have so much to accomplish today that I must meditate for two hours instead of one.
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Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest.
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It is my conviction that nothing enduring can be built on violence. The only safe way to overcome an enemy is to make of that enemy a friend.
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God will cease to be God, if he brought into being a single person with the hall-mark of inferiority.
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My Hindu instinct tells me that all religions are more or less true.
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Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill.
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Religion all the world over offeres God as the solace and comfort for all in agony.
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It is a crime and a sin to regard a person as untouchable because he is born in a particular community.
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My life has been full of external tragedies and if they have not left any visible effect on me, I owe it to the teaching of the Bhagavadgita.
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That nonviolence which only an individual can use is not of much use in terms of society.
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Think for tomorrow but act for today.
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If God gives me the privilege of dying for the Hinduism of my conception, I shall have sufficiently died for the unity of all and even for Swaraj.
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Man believes and lives.
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The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.
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I shall die, but I will not kill.
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Drink is not a fashion in India, as it is in the West.
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It is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others' religions as we would have them respect our own, a friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.
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A satyagrahi may not ride two horses, truth and untruth, at the same time, nor, to change the metaphor, trim his sail to catch every breeze as you do in the name of communism.
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Ahimsa is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value.
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Life is one indivisible whole.