Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The sanyasa of the Gita is all work and yet no work.
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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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I would far rather that Hinduism died than that untouchability lived.
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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.
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I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man.
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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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Let our lives be open books for all to study.
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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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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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If I am true to myself, if I am true to mankind, if I am true to humanity, I must understand all the faults that human flesh is heir to.
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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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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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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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Woman is, by habit or nature, queen of the household. She is not designed to organize on a large scale.
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In any case, the fear of subservience is quite imaginary.
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The ideal that marriage aims at is that of spiritual union through the physical. The human love that it incarnates is intended to serve as a stepping stone to diving or universal love.
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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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There is no road to freedom, freedom is the road.
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This civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed.
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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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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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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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My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest.