Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Religion is entirely a personal matter. Each one could approach his Creator as he liked.
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We often confuse spiritual knowledge with spiritual attainment. Spirituality is not a matter of knowing scriptures and engaging in philosophical discussions. It is a matter of heart culture, of unmeasurable strength.
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Touch-me-notism that disfigures the present day Hinduism is a morbid growth.
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Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment.
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Violence is bound sooner or later to exhaust itself but peace cannot issue out of such exhaustion.
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The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.
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What barrier is there that love cannot break?
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Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength, and there is nothing automatic or intuitive about the resoluteness required for using non-violent methods in political struggle and the quest for Truth.
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You never know where your actions will lead to. But if you don't do anything they will lead you nowhere.
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I believe in the absolute oneness of God and, therefore, also of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but one soul. The rays of the sun are many through refraction. But they have the same source. I cannot, therefore, detach myself from the wickedest soul (nor may I be denied identity with the most virtuous).
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Though philosophical Hinduism has no other god but God, it cannot be denied that practical Hinduism is not so emphatically uncompromising as Islam.
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Faith alone is the sun of life.
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The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there is between trees of the same species. Where in is the cause for anger, envy or discrimination?
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God alone is the judge of true greatness because He knows men's hearts.
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Men are good. But they are poor victims making themselves miserable under the false belief that they are doing good.
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There is no fundamental cleavage between Hindus and Mussalmans. We have lived in the same land as brothers for generations and what has been possible all these years will certainly be possible in the future.
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There is as much need for a change of heart among the Hindus and Mussalmans as there is among the British, before a proper settlement is arrived at.
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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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I have made the world's faith in God my own and as my faith is effaceable, I regard that faith as amounting to experience.
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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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I know nothing of the science of astrology and I consider it to be a science, if it is a science, of doubtful value, to be severely left alone by those who have any faith in Providence.
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My nonviolence is made of stern stuff. It is firmer than the firmest metal known to scientists.
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Religious truth, or for that matter any truth, requires a calm and meditative atmosphere for its percolation.
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What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.