Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I have mentally become a woman in order to steal into her heart.
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I look upon air-power for destruction as a terrible crime against humanity.
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Satan mostly employs comparatively moral instruments and the language of ethics to give his aims an air of respectability.
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As in laws or in war, the longest purse finally wins.
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Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.
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It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.
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Your future depends on what you do today.
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All sins are committed in secrecy. The moment we realize that God witnesses even our thoughts, we shall be free.
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For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence.
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Decency and tolerance, to be of any value, must be capable of withstanding the severest strain.
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True beauty consists of purity of heart.
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I believe in the capacity of India to offer nonviolent battle to the English rulers.
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The sanyasa of the Gita is all work and yet no work.
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Why should men arrogate to themselves the right to regulate female purity?
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Why worry one's head over a thing that is inevitable? Why die before one's death?
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The sole aim of journalism should be service.
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You cannot neglect the nearer duty for the sake of a remote.
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One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals.
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Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.
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One cannot reach Truth by untruthfulness. Truthful conduct alone can reach truth.
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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, who is the embodiment of Truth and Right and Justice, can never have sanctioned a religion or practice which regards one - fifth of our vast population as untouchables.
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If my nonviolence is to be contagious and infectious, I must acquire greater control over my thoughts.
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Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation.