Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Civil disobedience can only lead to strength and purity.
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I have known only one way of carrying on missionary work, viz., by personal example and discussion with searchers for knowledge.
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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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Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion.
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A woman's intuition has often proved truer than a man's arrogant assumption of knowledge.
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A dissolute character is more dissolute in thought than in deed. And the same is true of violence. Our violence in word and deed is but a feeble echo of the surging violence of thought in us.
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God alone is the judge of true greatness because He knows men's hearts.
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Ahimsa is my God, and Truth is my God.
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Not violence, nor untruth but non-violence and Truth are the laws of our being.
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The bravery of the nonviolent is vastly superior to that of the violent.
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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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The moral to be legitimately drawn from the supreme tragedy of the bomb is that it will not be destroyed by counter bombs even as violence cannot be by counter-violence.
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For India to enter into the race for armaments is to court suicide.
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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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Khaddar brings a ray of hope to the widow's broken-up home.
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Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction.
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Many persons claiming different faiths make us one and an indivisible nation. All these have an equal claim to be the nationals of India.
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To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty.
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The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that too, unconditional assistance, Co-operation which needs consideration is as a commercial contract and not friendship. Conditional co-operation is like adulterated cement which does not bind.
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Live simply that others might simply live.
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As the means, so the end.
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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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God is the vital force or spirit which is all-pervading, all-embracing and, therefore, beyond human ken.
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It's not just words. Action expresses priorities.