Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The Enlightened one has told you in never-to-be-forgotten words that this little span of life is but a passing shadow, a fleeting thing.
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Nonviolent non-co-operation with evil means co-operation with all that is good.
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Watches may disagree, but let us not.
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To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness.
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Truth is my religion and ahimsa is the only way of its realization.
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A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard.
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The turning of the charkha in a lifeless way will be like the turning of the beads of the rosary with a wandering mind turned away from God.
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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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Even if the whole of India, ranged on one side, were to declare that Hindu-Muslim unity is impossible, I will declare that it is perfectly possible.
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I would not sell the vital interests of the untouchables for the sake of winning the freedom of India.
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Everything I have personally experienced, and that also has been expressed by the leaders of the great religions points to the fact that a global spirituality already exists and was intrinsically there from the start as God (by whatever name) is one and is indivisible - everywhere outside time and place.
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A man of faith will remain steadfast to truth even though the whole world might appear to be enveloped in falsehood.
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Hinduism does not rest on the authority of one book or one prophet, nor does it posses a common creed like the Kalma.
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It is knowledge that ultimately gives salvation.
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I look upon air-power for destruction as a terrible crime against humanity.
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A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind.
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Khaddar delivers the poor from the bonds of the rich and creates a moral and spiritual bond between the classes and the masses.
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Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice – nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate.
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No sacrifice is worth the name unless it is a joy. Sacrifice and a long face go ill together. Sacrifice is 'making sacred'. He must be a poor specimen of humanity who is in need of sympathy for his sacrifice.
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Islam was nothing if it did not spell complete democracy.
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The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.
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Retreat itself is often a plan of resistance and may be a precursor of great bravery and sacrifice. Every retreat is not cowardice which implies fear to die.
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Terrorism and deception are weapons not of the strong, but of the weak.
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Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children under training?