Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Nothing can be more hurtful to an honourable man than that he should be accused of bad faith.
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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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The early Mussalmans accepted Islam not because they knew it to be revealed but because it appealed to their virgin reason.
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Mother cow is in many ways better than the mother who gave us birth.
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The essence of true religious teaching is that one should serve and befriend all.
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What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.
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Woman is the embodiment of sacrifice and suffering and her advent to public life should, therefore, result in purifying it, in restraining unbridled ambition and accumulation of property.
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My life is dedicated to the service of Indians through the religion of nonviolence which I believe to be the root of Hinduism.
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I will not have the power of nonviolence to be underestimated in order to cover my limitations or weaknesses.
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A woman's intuition has often proved truer than a man's arrogant assumption of knowledge.
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One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.
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Is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater courage? Without her, man would not be. If nonviolence is to be the law of our being, the future is with women.
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The path of Truth is as narrow as it is straight. Even so is that of ahimsa.
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All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.
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To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty.
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Where there is truth, there also is knowledge which is true.
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Cow-slaughter can never be stopped by law.
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We do not know whether it is good to live or to die. Therefore, we should not take delight in living, nor should we tremble at the thought of death. We should be equiminded towards death. This is the ideal. It may be long before we reach it, and only a few of us can attain it. Even then, we must keep it constantly in view, and the more difficult it seems of attainment, the greater should be the effort we put forth.
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Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day: - I shall not fear anyone on Earth. - I shall fear only God. - I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. - I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. - I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.
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Hinduism dies if untouchability lives, and untouchability has to die if Hinduism is to live.
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Openness of mind strengthens the truth in us and removes the dross from it, if there is any.
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If we will take care of today, God will take care of the morrow.
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Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment.
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The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country's and ultimately that of the whole of mankind.