Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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God turns His back on those who quarrel among themselves.
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What barrier is there that love cannot break?
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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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A woman's intuition has often proved truer than a man's arrogant assumption of knowledge.
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The wise are unaffected either by death or life. These are but faces of the same coin.
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What distinguishes man from the brute is his conscious striving to realise the spirit within.
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Through Khadi we teach the people the art of civil obedience to an institution which they have built up for themselves.
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It is knowledge that ultimately gives salvation.
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... man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows. I know we must all err. I would give up milk if I could, but I cannot. I have made that experiment times without number. I could not, after a serious illness, regain my strength, unless I went back to milk. That has been the tragedy of my life. But the basis of my vegetarianism is not physical, but moral. If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef tea or mutton, even on medical advice, I would prefer death. That is the basis of my vegetarianism.
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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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Watches may disagree, but let us not.
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I have recognized that the nation has the right, if it so wills, to vindicate her freedom even by actual violence.
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They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.
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My life is dedicated to the service of Indians through the religion of nonviolence which I believe to be the root of Hinduism.
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Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion.
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God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist.
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If you do nothing there will be no results.
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Faith is the function of the heart.
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Non-cooperation means nothing less than training in self-sacrifice.
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The still small voice within you must always be the final arbiter when there is a conflict of duty.
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Force that the performance of duty naturally generates is the non-violent and invincible force that satyagraha brings into being.
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Happiness, the goal to which we all are striving is reached by endeavoring to make the lives of others happy, and if by renouncing the luxuries of life we can lighten the burdens of others.... surely the simplification of our wants is a thing greatly to be desired! And so, if instead of supposing that we must become hermits and dwellers in caves in order to practice simplicity, we set about simplifying our affairs, each according to his own convictions and opportunity, much good will result and the simple life will at once be established.
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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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Ahimsa is nothing if not a well-balanced, exquisite consideration for one's neighbour, and an idle man is wanting in that elementary consideration.