Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Nothing in the Shastra, which is manifestly contrary to universal truths and morals, can stand.
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The singular secret of khaddar lies in its saleability in the place of its production and use by the manufacturers themselves.
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India has the right, if she only knew, of becoming the predominant partner by reason of her numbers, geographical position and culture inherited for ages.
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What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated?
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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.
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... when all violence subsides in the human heart, the state which remains is love. It is not something we have to acquire; it is always present, and needs only to be uncovered. This is our real nature, not merely to love one person here, another there, but to be love itself.
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Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion.
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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.
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There is little that separates humans from other sentient beings - we all feel joy, we all deeply crave to be alive and to live freely, and we all share this planet together.
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It is nonviolent non-cooperation which evokes the highest spirit of self-sacrifice that will wean one from the error of one's ways.
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I would risk violence a thousand times rather than risk the emasculation of the whole race.
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Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God.
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An error can never become true however many times you repeat it. The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.
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It was not through democratic methods that Britain bagged India.
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The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.
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The external is in no way the essence of religion, but the external often proclaims the internal.
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The chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man.
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All of us with one voice call one God differently as Parmatma, Ishwara, Shiva, Vishnu, Rama, Allah, Khuda, Dada-Hormuzda, Jehova, God and an infinite variety of names.
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. For the least sin, it wouldn't take us longTo get so we had no one left to live with.For to be social is to be forgiving.
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The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.
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To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny one's faith in man and God, even one's own self. It were better for one to drown oneself than live to declare such bankruptcy of faith.
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God has enabled man to distinguish between his sister, his mother, his daughter and his wife.
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Islam was nothing if it did not spell complete democracy.
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The Muslim is as much an Indian as I am and of the same blood.