Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I have found that life persists in the midst of destruction and, therefore, there must be a higher law than that of destruction. Only under that law would a well-ordered society be intelligible and life worth living.
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Hinduism does not rest on the authority of one book or one prophet, nor does it posses a common creed like the Kalma.
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The nonviolence I teach is active nonviolence of the strongest. But the weakest can partake in it without becoming weaker.
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The field of research in the doctrine of civil resistance is necessarily limited, as the occasions for civil resistance in a man's life must not be frequent.
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My own opinion is that just as fundamentally man and woman are one, their problems must be one in essence.
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Where there is truth, there also is knowledge which is true.
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Islam was nothing if it did not spell complete democracy.
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For a fallen India to aspire to move the world and protect the weaker races is seemingly an impertinence.
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The truth is that God is the force. He is the essence of life. He is pure and undefiled consciousness. He is eternal.
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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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Khaddar is an attempt to revise and reverse the process and establish a better relationship between the cities and villages.
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A satyagrahi loves his so-called enemy even as he loves his friend. He has no enemy.
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No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will.
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If love or non – violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces.
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Art to be art must soothe.
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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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There is no god higher than truth.
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God chooses as His instrument the humblest and weakest of His creatures to fulfill Himself.
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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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Man must choose either of the two courses, the upward or the downward; but as he has the brute in him, he will more easily choose the downward course than the upward, especially when the downward course is presented to him in a beautiful garb. Man easily capitulates when sin is presented in the garb of virtue.
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If people knew the working of the law of truth and nonviolence, then they would themselves regulate the matter of its shortage.
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As the means, so the end.
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When we fear God, then we shall fear no man, however high-placed he may be.
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Buddha emphasized and re-declared the eternal and unalterable existence of the moral government of this universe. He unhesitatingly said that the law was God Himself.