Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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You cannot neglect the nearer duty for the sake of a remote.
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A jailer is as much a prisoner as his prisoner.
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True knowledge gives a moral standing and moral strength.
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In times to come people will not judge us by the creed we profess or the label we wear or the slogans we shout, but, by our work, industry, sacrifice, honesty and purity of character.
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Old as I am in age, I have no feeling that I have ceased to grow inwardly or that my growth will stop at the dissolution of the flesh. What I am concerned with is my readiness to obey the call of Truth, my God, from moment to moment, no matter how inconsistent it may appear. My commitment is to Truth, not to consistency.
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I will suffer the agony if that is to be my lot.
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Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.
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Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.
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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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We must be the world we want to create.
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Newspapers should be read for the study of facts. They should not be allowed to kill the habit of independent thinking.
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The only real and reliable guarantee for khadi would be honesty, truthfulness and sincerity of khadi workers.
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Speed is irrelevant if you are going in the wrong direction.
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My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.
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What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.
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Whatever can be useful to those starving millions is beautiful to my mind.
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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 must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no dis-advantage whatever. In fact I can see that, on the contrary, it has been all to my advantage.
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Hate the sin and not the sinner' is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.
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Satyagraha is a relentless search for truth and a determination to search truth.
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Do not believe in telling people of one's faith, especially with a view to conversion. Faith must be lived, and when it is, it becomes self-propagating.
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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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You never realize what the aftereffect of your activities, however in the event that you don't do anything, obviously there will be no outcome.
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Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence.