Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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Purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one's surroundings.
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Our nonviolence vis-а-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak.
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Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
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Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
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A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber.
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If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.
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I am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom.'
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Whatever the ultimate fate of my country, my love for you remains, and will remain, undiminished. My non-violence demands universal love, and you are not a small part of it. It is that love which has prompted my appeal to you.
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Nonviolence is not an easy thing to understand, still less to practice, weak as we are.
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A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
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I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
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Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
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For one man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole.
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For me nonviolence is a creed. I must act up to it, whether I am alone or have companions.
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Our existence as embodied beings is purely momentary; what are a hundred years in eternity? But if we shatter the chains of egotism, and melt into the ocean of humanity, we share its dignity. To feel that we are something is to set up a barrier between God and ourselves; to cease feeling that we are something, is to become one with God.
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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
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A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.
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Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
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Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.
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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
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There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
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Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.