Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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My soul refuses to be satisfied so long as it is a helpless witness of a single wrong or a single misery.
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Coercion cannot but result in chaos in the end.
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Nonviolence which to me is the glory of Hinduism, has been sought to be explained away by our people as being meant for the sanyasis only.
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What is imprisonment to the man who is fearless of death itself?
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Every person, as every institution, and, above all, every religion is to be judged not by the amount of atrocities or the wrong committed but by the right conduct.
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There is no fundamental cleavage between Hindus and Mussalmans. We have lived in the same land as brothers for generations and what has been possible all these years will certainly be possible in the future.
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God is omnipresent; even a pebble in the Narmada can represent Him and serve as an object of worship.
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The real implication of equal distribution is that each man shall have the wherewithal to supply all his natural needs and no more.
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The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary.
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I am a Hindu by birth. And yet I do not know much of Hinduism, and I know less of other religions. In fact I do not know where I am, and what is and what should be my belief. I intend to make a careful study of my own religion and, as far as I can, of other religions as well.
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When you want to find Truth as God, the only inevitable means is love, that is nonviolence.
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I must rebel against the idea that millions of Indians, who were Hindus, the other day, changed their nationality on adopting Islam as their religion.
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The truth is that cowardice itself is violence of a subtle type and therefore dangerous and far more difficult to eradicate than the habit of physical violence.
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Soul-force comes only through God's grace and never descends upon a man who is a slave to lust.
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God has blessed me with the mission to place nonviolence before the nation for adoption.
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No one chains a slave without chaining himself.
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To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.
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No one has the capacity to judge God. We are drops in that limitless ocean of mercy.
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Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart desires must come to you.
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One is ever young in the presence of the God of Truth, or Truth which is God.
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Buddha renounced every worldly happiness because he wanted to share with the whole world his happiness which was to be had by men who sacrificed and suffered in the search for truth.
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There can be no friendship between cowards, or cowards and brave men.
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Retreat itself is often a plan of resistance and may be a precursor of great bravery and sacrifice. Every retreat is not cowardice which implies fear to die.
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Democracy comes naturally to him who is habituated normally to yield willing obedience to all laws, human or divine.