Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Live like Jesus did, and the world will listen.
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God is the vital force or spirit which is all-pervading, all-embracing and, therefore, beyond human ken.
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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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Everyone wants to be strong and self sufficient, but few are willing to put in the work necessary to achieve worthy goals.
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Study men following the law of their higher nature, the law of love, so that when you grow to manhood, you will have improved your heritage.
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I could not be leading a religious life unless I identified myself with the whole of mankind, and that I could not do unless I took part in politics.
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A fear-stricken person can never know God, and one who knows God will never fear a mortal man.
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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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When you practice a life of non-violence you no longer need seek the truth, the truth finds you.
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Art to be art must soothe.
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We must be the world we want to create.
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Islam was nothing if it did not spell complete democracy.
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Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country.
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Happiness eludes us if we run after it.
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Every calamity should lead to a thorough cleansing of individual as well as social life.
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A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be spread without diminishing that of yourself.
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Even a believer in nonviolence has to say between two combatants which is less bad or whose cause is just.
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I have known only one way of carrying on missionary work, viz., by personal example and discussion with searchers for knowledge.
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The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there is between trees of the same species. Where in is the cause for anger, envy or discrimination?
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Man's upward progress means ever increasing difficulty, which is to be welcomed.
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In the secret of my heart I am in perpetual quarrel with God that He should allow such things [as the war] to go on. My non-violence seems almost impotent. But the answer comes at the end of the daily quarrel that neither God nor non-violence is impotent. Impotence is in men. I must try on without losing faith even though I may break in the attempt.
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If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior.
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The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet.
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A clear victory of satyagraha is impossible so long as there is ill will.