Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Further march of civilization seems to employ increasing domination of man over beast, together with a growingly humane method of using them.
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What better book can there be than the book of humanity.
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It would be a blunder of the first magnitude for the British to be a party, in any way whatsoever, to the division of India.
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Exploitation of the poor can be extinguished not by effecting the destruction of a few millionaires, but by removing the ignorance of the poor and teaching them to non-cooperate with their exploiters.
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You will not pit one word of God against another word of God.
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It is my conviction that nothing enduring can be built on violence. The only safe way to overcome an enemy is to make of that enemy a friend.
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How heavy is the toll of sins and wrong that wealth, power and prestige exact from man.
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It is the faith and perseverance and single-mindedness with which Hitler has perfected his weapons of destruction that commands my admiration.
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He who runs to the doctor, vaidya, or hakim for every little ailment, and swallows all kinds of vegetable and mineral drugs, not only curtails his life, but by becoming the slave of his body instead of remaining its master, loses self-control, and ceases to be a man.
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Destruction of the churches and the like is not the way to Swaraj as defined by the Congress.
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We cannot have real independence unless the people banish the touch-me-not spirit from their hearts.
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Dharma is one and one only. Ahimsa means moksha, and moksha is the realization of Truth.
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Cow protection is the gift of Hinduism to the world.
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There are innumerable definitions of God because his manifestations are innumerable.
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Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.
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Democracy disciplined and enlightened is the finest thing in the world. A democracy prejudiced, ignorant, superstitious, will land itself in chaos and may be self-destroyed.
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A dissolute character is more dissolute in thought than in deed. And the same is true of violence. Our violence in word and deed is but a feeble echo of the surging violence of thought in us.
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For the courage of self-sacrifice, woman is any time superior to man, as I believe man is to woman for the courage of the brute.
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I would like to bury myself in an Indian village, preferably in a Frontier village.
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I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability which is amazing and he seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed.
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History is replete with instances of men, who, by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.
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The Muslim is as much an Indian as I am and of the same blood.
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Every calamity should lead to a thorough cleansing of individual as well as social life.
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Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation.