Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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A fear-stricken person can never know God, and one who knows God will never fear a mortal man.
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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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God is Truth, Truth is God.
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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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Non-cooperation means nothing less than training in self-sacrifice.
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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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All have not the same capacity. I would allow a man of intellect to earn more, I would not cramp his talent.
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Not violence, nor untruth but non-violence and Truth are the laws of our being.
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I am conscious of my own limitations. That consciousness is my only strength.
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Cow protection is the gift of Hinduism to the world.
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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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God chooses as His instrument the humblest and weakest of His creatures to fulfill Himself.
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I would rather have India without education, if that is the price to be paid for making it dry.
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To a man with an empty stomach food is God.
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A satyagrahi has infinite patience, abundant faith in others, and ample hope.
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If India won her freedom through truth and non-violence, India would not only point the way to all the exploited Asiatic nations, she would become a torch-bearer for the Negro races.
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It was through the Hindu religion that I learnt to respect Christianity and Islam.
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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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If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the Granth Sahib or the Koran?
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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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The snakes have their place in the agricultural economy of the village, but our villagers do not seem realize it.
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To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny one's faith in man and God, even one's own self. It were better for one to drown oneself than live to declare such bankruptcy of faith.
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Let our lives be open books for all to study.
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The power we call God defies description.