Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Anger, lust and such other evil passions raging in the heart are the real untouchables.
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It was not through democratic methods that Britain bagged India.
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No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will.
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Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction.
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Religion is not what is grasped by the brain, but a heart grasp.
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Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.
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My mission is to convert every Indian, every Englishman and finally the world to nonviolence for regulating mutual relations, whether political, economic, social or religious.
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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.
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I am a Hindu by birth. And yet I do not know much of Hinduism, and I know less of other religions. In fact I do not know where I am, and what is and what should be my belief. I intend to make a careful study of my own religion and, as far as I can, of other religions as well.
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My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest.
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A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be spread without diminishing that of yourself.
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I have in my life never been guilty of saying things I did not mean - my nature is to go straight to the heart and if often I fail in doing so for the time being, I know that Truth ultimately makes itself heard and felt, as it has often done in my experience.
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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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Even a believer in nonviolence has to say between two combatants which is less bad or whose cause is just.
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Faith is the function of the heart.
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Who is there in the world who can insult the God in the image?
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What, however, left a deep impression on me was the reading of the Ramayana before my father. During part of his illness my father was in Porbandar. There every evening he used to listen to the Ramayana.
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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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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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Go for the throat. If you cant, go for the nads.
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Woman is, by habit or nature, queen of the household. She is not designed to organize on a large scale.
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If it is by force that we wish to achieve Swaraj, let us drop nonviolence and offer such violence as we may.
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Those who are truthful, nonviolent and brave do not cease to be so because of the stupidity of their leader.
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All sins are committed in secrecy. The moment we realize that God witnesses even our thoughts, we shall be free.