Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Mother cow is in many ways better than the mother who gave us birth.
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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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Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side.
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Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
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Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.
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One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.
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We stand on the threshold of a twilight-whether morning or evening we do not know. One is followed by the night, the other heralds the dawn.
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My idea of society is that while we are born equal, meaning that we have a right to equal opportunity, all have not the same capacity.
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Khaddar brings a ray of hope to the widow's broken-up home.
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History is replete with instances of men, who, by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.
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I am conscious of my own limitations. That consciousness is my only strength.
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What is gained by violence must be lost before superior violence.
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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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Man must choose either of the two courses, the upward or the downward; but as he has the brute in him, he will more easily choose the downward course than the upward, especially when the downward course is presented to him in a beautiful garb. Man easily capitulates when sin is presented in the garb of virtue.
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God turns His back on those who quarrel among themselves.
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God chooses as His instrument the humblest and weakest of His creatures to fulfill Himself.
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Satyagraha is itself an unmistakable mute prayer of an agonized soul.
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The power of unarmed nonviolence is any day far superior to that of armed force.
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Go for the throat. If you cant, go for the nads.
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No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will.
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I do believe that ideas ripen quickly when nourished by the blood of martyrs.
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Civilizations have come and gone and, in spite of our vaunted progress, I am tempted to ask again and again, 'To what purpose?'
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Non-cooperation intended to pave the way to real honourable and voluntary cooperation based on mutual respect and trust.
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Religion is entirely a personal matter. Each one could approach his Creator as he liked.