Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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True ahimsa should mean a complete freedom from ill-will and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all.
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Whilst the Bihar calamity damages the body, the calamity brought about by untouchability corrodes the very soul.
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There is no time limit for a satyagrahi nor is there a limit to his capacity for suffering.
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My knowledge of the letter of the Shastras is better, but of true religion they are able to give me but little.
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The ideal that marriage aims at is that of spiritual union through the physical. The human love that it incarnates is intended to serve as a stepping stone to diving or universal love.
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I felt that God could be realized only through service. And service for me was the service of India, because it came to me without my seeking, because I had an aptitude for it.
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Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.
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Character alone will have real effect on the masses.
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The one condition for fighting for peace and liberty is to acquire self-restraint.
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The present war is the saturation point in violence. It spells, to my mind, also its doom.
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Cent percent swadeshi gives sufficient scope for the most insatiable ambition for service and a satisfaction of every kind of talent.
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To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.
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It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet.
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Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world.
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When I don't understand something, I reach up and hold God's hand. And we walk together in silence.
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Further march of civilization seems to employ increasing domination of man over beast, together with a growingly humane method of using them.
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The mind may wander, but let not the senses wander with it. If the senses wander where the mind takes them, one is done for.
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God alone is the judge of true greatness because He knows men's hearts.
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God never made man that he may consider another man as untouchable.
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To a people famishing and idle, the only acceptable form in which God can dare appear is work and promise of food as wages.
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Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children under training?
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All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation.
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A man of character will make himself worthy of any position he is given.
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It may be long before the law of love will be recognised in international affairs. The machineries of government stand between and hide the hearts of one people from those of another.