Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I have shut my mind against nothing and I am a friend of Great Britain. I always have been. I have no axe to grind.
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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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The still small voice within you must always be the final arbiter when there is a conflict of duty.
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You will find that God is always by the side of the fearless.
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My love of the British is equal to that of my own people.
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It is easier to bridge the oceans that lie between continents than it is to bridge the gap between individuals or the peoples.
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To a people famishing and idle, the only acceptable form in which God can dare appear is work and promise of food as wages.
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Independence of my conception means nothing less than the realization of the "Kingdom of God" within you and on this earth.
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A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.
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If it weren't for Christians, I'd be a Christian.
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You are not going to know the meaning of God or prayer unless you reduce yourself to a cipher.
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The sum total of karma is God.
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The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary.
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Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.
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All the other industries will receive warmth and sustenance from khadi industry.
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A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat.
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India's freedom must revolutionize the world's outlook upon Peace and War.
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There are two days in the year that we can not do anything, yesterday and tomorrow.
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We are the makers of our own state and...individuals who realize the fact need not, ought not, to wait for collective action.
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My personal religion peremptorily forbids me to hate anybody.
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Democracy is a great institution and, therefore, it is liable to be greatly abused.
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In Hinduism we have got an admirable foot-rule to measure every shastra and every rule of conduct, and that is truth.
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Whilst the Bihar calamity damages the body, the calamity brought about by untouchability corrodes the very soul.
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The cry for peace will be a cry in the wilderness, so long as the spirit of nonviolence does not dominate millions of men and women.