Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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... when all violence subsides in the human heart, the state which remains is love. It is not something we have to acquire; it is always present, and needs only to be uncovered. This is our real nature, not merely to love one person here, another there, but to be love itself.
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If you give me rice, I'll eat today; if you teach me how to grow rice, I'll eat every day.
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Whatever may be true of the other modes of warfare, insatyagraha it has been held that the causes for failure are to be sought within.
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What we can do, we will try to do.
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Without the study of Samskrit one cannot become a true Indian and a true learned man.
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Islam was nothing if it did not spell complete democracy.
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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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It is the faith and perseverance and single-mindedness with which Hitler has perfected his weapons of destruction that commands my admiration.
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You cannot neglect the nearer duty for the sake of a remote.
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A clear victory of satyagraha is impossible so long as there is ill will.
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Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India.
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A love that is based on the goodness of those whom you love is a mercenary affair.
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Go for the throat. If you cant, go for the nads.
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Of all the myriads of God, Daridranarayana is the most sacred inasmuch as it represents the untold millions of the poor people as distinguished from the few rich people.
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You never know where your actions will lead to. But if you don't do anything they will lead you nowhere.
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When you know the truth, the truth makes you a soldier.
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Civil disobedience can only lead to strength and purity.
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Each and every one of you should consider himself to be a trustee for the welfare of the rest of his fellow labourers and not be self-seeking.
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I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Eternal and become merely a lump of clay in the Potter's divine hands so that my service may become more certain because uninterrupted by the baser self in me.
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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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Hinduism would not have been much of a religion if Rama had not steeled his heart against every temptation.
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In the secret of my heart I am in perpetual quarrel with God that He should allow such things [as the war] to go on. My non-violence seems almost impotent. But the answer comes at the end of the daily quarrel that neither God nor non-violence is impotent. Impotence is in men. I must try on without losing faith even though I may break in the attempt.
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For India to enter into the race for armaments is to court suicide.