Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one.
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God turns His back on those who quarrel among themselves.
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Let our lives be open books for all to study.
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A man of character will make himself worthy of any position he is given.
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A satyagrahi has infinite patience, abundant faith in others, and ample hope.
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Every moment of my life I realize that God is putting me on my trial.
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Whatever may be true of the other modes of warfare, insatyagraha it has been held that the causes for failure are to be sought within.
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There can be no rule of God in the present state of iniquitous inequalities in which a few roll in riches and the masses do not get enough to eat.
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If people knew the working of the law of truth and nonviolence, then they would themselves regulate the matter of its shortage.
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Hinduism is a living organism liable to growth and decay subject to the laws of Nature. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown into a vast tree with innumerable branches. The changes in the season affect it. It has its autumn and its summer, its winter and its spring. It is, and is not, based on scriptures. It does not derive its authority from one book. Non violence has found the highest expression and application in Hinduism.
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In any case, the fear of subservience is quite imaginary.
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Study not man in his animal nature - man following the laws of the jungle - but study man in all his glory.
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When you want to find Truth as God, the only inevitable means is love, that is nonviolence.
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Man must choose either of the two courses, the upward or the downward; but as he has the brute in him, he will more easily choose the downward course than the upward, especially when the downward course is presented to him in a beautiful garb. Man easily capitulates when sin is presented in the garb of virtue.
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The sanyasa of the Gita is all work and yet no work.
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No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reason, will survive the coming reconstruction of society in which the values will have changed and character, not possession of wealth, title or birth, will be the test of merit.
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The lower animals are our brethren. I include among them the lion and the tiger. We do not know how to live with these carnivorous beasts and poisonous reptiles because of our ignorance.
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I would far rather that Hinduism died than that untouchability lived.
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Man's triumph will consist in substituting the struggle for existence by a struggle for mutual service.
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The real implication of equal distribution is that each man shall have the wherewithal to supply all his natural needs and no more.
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Non-cooperation is protest against an unwitting and unwilling participation in evil.
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For the courage of self-sacrifice, woman is any time superior to man, as I believe man is to woman for the courage of the brute.
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One is ever young in the presence of the God of Truth, or Truth which is God.
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I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man, and believing as I do in the theory of reincarnation, I live in the hope that if not in this birth, in some other birth I shall be able to hug all of humanity in friendly embrace.