Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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How can I even secretly harbour the thought that my neighbour's faith is inferior to mine?
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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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The Gita is not an aphoristic work, it is a great religious poem.
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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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There is no 'as far as possible' on the question of untouchability. If it is to go, it must go in its entirety from the temples as from everywhere else.
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There is only one God for us all, whether we find him through the Koran, the Zend-Avesta, The Tolmud, or the Gita.
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Democracy, disciplined and enlightened, is the finest thing in the world.
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A living faith cannot be manufactured by the rule of majority.
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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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To a people famishing and idle, the only acceptable form in which God can dare appear is work and promise of food as wages.
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Democracy and dependence on the military and police are incompatible.
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In any case, the fear of subservience is quite imaginary.
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One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.
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Disease increases in proportion to the increase in the number of doctors in a place.
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God took and needed no personal service. He served His creatures without demanding any service for Himself in return.
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When freedom is in jeopardy, non-co-operation may be a duty and prison may be a palace.
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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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You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.
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The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary.
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We do not know whether it is good to live or to die. Therefore, we should not take delight in living, nor should we tremble at the thought of death. We should be equiminded towards death. This is the ideal. It may be long before we reach it, and only a few of us can attain it. Even then, we must keep it constantly in view, and the more difficult it seems of attainment, the greater should be the effort we put forth.
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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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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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How heavy is the toll of sins and wrong that wealth, power and prestige exact from man.
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Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.