Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Disease increases in proportion to the increase in the number of doctors in a place.
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Democracy, disciplined and enlightened, is the finest thing in the world.
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Every calamity should lead to a thorough cleansing of individual as well as social life.
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I am part and parcel of the whole and cannot find God apart from the rest of humanity.
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My attempt and prayer are and will be for an honorable peace between belligerent nations in the least possible time.
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Do not concentrate on showing the misdeeds of the government, for we have to convert and befriend those who run it.
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I will not have the power of nonviolence to be underestimated in order to cover my limitations or weaknesses.
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Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.
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Violence can only be effectively met by nonviolence. This is an old established truth.
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I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man, and believing as I do in the theory of reincarnation, I live in the hope that if not in this birth, in some other birth I shall be able to hug all of humanity in friendly embrace.
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It is the absolute right of India to misgovern herself.
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Diversity there certainly is in the world, but it means neither inequality nor untouchability.
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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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Religion is not what is grasped by the brain, but a heart grasp.
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I honor the place within you where, when you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us.
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Life is but an endless series of experiments.
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A jailer is as much a prisoner as his prisoner.
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It is a tragedy of the first magnitude that millions of people have ceased to use their hands as hands. Nature has bestowed upon us this great gift which is our hands. If the craze for machinery method continues, it is highly likely that a time will come when we shall be so incapacitated and weak that we shall begin to curse ourselves for having forgotten the use of the living machines given to us by God.
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We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings.
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My mission is to convert every Indian, every Englishman and finally the world to nonviolence for regulating mutual relations, whether political, economic, social or religious.
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Love based upon indulgence of animal passion, is at best a selfish affair, and likely to snap under the slightest strain.
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Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment.
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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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Imperfect men have no right to judge other imperfect men.