Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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Non-cooperation intended to pave the way to real honourable and voluntary cooperation based on mutual respect and trust.
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Nonviolent nationalism is a necessary condition of corporate or civilized life.
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The snakes have their place in the agricultural economy of the village, but our villagers do not seem realize it.
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I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man.
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Hate the sin, love the sinner.
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Cow protection is the gift of Hinduism to the world.
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There is no road to freedom, freedom is the road.
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If I were over full of pity for the cow, I should sacrifice my life to save her but not take my brother's.
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Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India.
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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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Nonviolence which to me is the glory of Hinduism, has been sought to be explained away by our people as being meant for the sanyasis only.
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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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Non-cooperation means nothing less than training in self-sacrifice.
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God chooses as His instrument the humblest and weakest of His creatures to fulfill Himself.
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The knowledge of the omnipresence of God also means respect for the lives even of those who may be called opponents.
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The spirit of non-violence necessarily leads to humility. Non-violence means reliance on God, the rock of ages. If we would seek his aid, we must approach Him with a humble and contrite heart.
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To a man with an empty stomach food is God.
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There is no path to peace; peace is the path.
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There is no yajna (sacrifice) greater than spinning calculated to bring peace to the troubled spirit, to soothe the distracted student's mind, to spiritualize his life.
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My doctrine means that I must identify myself with life, with everything that lives, that I must share the majesty of life in the presence of God. The sum-total of this life is God. .. Man is not at peace with himself until he has become like unto God. The endeavor to reach this state is the supreme, the only ambition worth having. And this is self-realisation. This self-realisation is the subject of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures... to be a real devotee is to realise oneself. Self-realisation is not something apart.
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Hindus, if they want unity among different races, must have the courage to trust the minorities.
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I could not be leading a religious life unless I identified myself with the whole of mankind, and that I could not do unless I took part in politics.
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There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.