Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Start changing yourself if you want to change the life around you.
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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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A successful search for truth means complete deliverance from the dual throng, such as of love and hate, happiness and misery.
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Before Hindus and Moslems dare think of freedom, they must be brave enough to love one another, to tolerate one another's religion, even prejudices and superstitions, and to trust one another. This requires faith in oneself.
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Pure motives can never justify impure or violent action.
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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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To prevent the workers from going to their work by standing in front of them is pure violence and must be given up.
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Cowardice is not a sign of belief in God.
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Civilizations have come and gone and, in spite of our vaunted progress, I am tempted to ask again and again, 'To what purpose?'
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History is replete with instances of men, who, by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.
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The whole of India was the home of every Indian who considered himself as one and behaved as such, no matter to what faith he belonged.
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Behaviour is the mirror in which we can display our image.
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One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.
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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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First they ignore you, then they denounce you, and then they say that they knew what you were saying all the time.
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The purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself. We cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that lives. The sum-total of that life is God.
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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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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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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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The unparalleled extravagance of English rule has demented the rajas and the maharajas who, unmindful of consequences, ape it and grind their subjects to dust.
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This earthly existence of ours is more brittle that the glass bangles that ladies wear.
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Democracy is a great institution and, therefore, it is liable to be greatly abused.
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Nonviolent non-co-operation with evil means co-operation with all that is good.
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Truth is my religion and ahimsa is the only way of its realization.