Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The story of the creation and similar things in it did not impress me very much, but on the contrary made me incline somewhat towards atheism.
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Every calamity should lead to a thorough cleansing of individual as well as social life.
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I believe in absolute oneness of God and therefore also of humanity.
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The future depends on what we do in the present.
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God has blessed me with the mission to place nonviolence before the nation for adoption.
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My religion and my patriotism derived from my religion, embrace all life.
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You cannot neglect the nearer duty for the sake of a remote.
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We must be ever courteous and patient with those who do not see eye to eye with us. We must resolutely refuse to consider our opponents as enemies.
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To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.
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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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And whilst he may not claim superiority by reason of learning, I myself must not withold that meed of homage that learning, wherever it resides, always commands.
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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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We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings.
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We become Godlike to the extent we realize nonviolence, but we can never become wholly God.
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Let our lives be open books for all to study.
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Of all the black crimes that humanity is committing against the great Creation, vivisection is the blackest.
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I want co-operation between nations for the salvaging of civilization, but co-operation presupposes free nations worthy of co-operation.
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God turns His back on those who quarrel among themselves.
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The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.
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It is knowledge that ultimately gives salvation.
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The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.
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Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.
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Not violence, nor untruth but non-violence and Truth are the laws of our being.
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Hinduism would not have been much of a religion if Rama had not steeled his heart against every temptation.