Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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At times of writing I never think what I have said before. My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question, but to be consistent with truth as it may present itself to me at a given moment. The result has been that I have grown from truth to truth.
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The Gita is not an aphoristic work, it is a great religious poem.
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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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If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.
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... man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows. I know we must all err. I would give up milk if I could, but I cannot. I have made that experiment times without number. I could not, after a serious illness, regain my strength, unless I went back to milk. That has been the tragedy of my life. But the basis of my vegetarianism is not physical, but moral. If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef tea or mutton, even on medical advice, I would prefer death. That is the basis of my vegetarianism.
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Through Khadi we teach the people the art of civil obedience to an institution which they have built up for themselves.
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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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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.
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It was our love of foreign cloth that ousted the wheel from its position of dignity.
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The Enlightened one has told you in never-to-be-forgotten words that this little span of life is but a passing shadow, a fleeting thing.
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Nature can provide for the needs of people; [she] can't provide for the greed of people.
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I eat to live, to serve, and also, if it so happens, to enjoy, but I do not eat for the sake of enjoyment.
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The Britisher is the top dog and the Indian the underdog in his own country.
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We must learn to be self-reliant and independent of schools, courts, protection and patronage of a Government we seek to end, if it will not mend.
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If Britain wins wholly, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and perhaps even Bolshevik Russia will disappear.
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I still believe that man, not having been given the power of creation, does not posses the right of destroying the meanest creature that lives. The perogative of destruction belongs solely to the Creator of all that lives.
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A clear victory of satyagraha is impossible so long as there is ill will.
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Democracy, disciplined and enlightened, is the finest thing in the world.
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All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation.
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Virtue lies in being absorbed in one's prayers in the presence of din and noise.
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Exercise of faith will be the safest where there is a clear determination summarily to reject all that is contrary to truth and love.
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The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet.
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I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man, and believing as I do in the theory of reincarnation, I live in the hope that if not in this birth, in some other birth I shall be able to hug all of humanity in friendly embrace.
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I learnt the lesson on nonviolence from my wife, when I tried to bend her to my will. Her determined resistance to my will on the one hand, and her quiet submission to the suffering my stupidity involved on the other, ultimately made me ashamed of myself and cured me of my stupidity in thinking that I was born to rule over her.