Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses or imperfections.
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My own opinion is that just as fundamentally man and woman are one, their problems must be one in essence.
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I believe it to be perfectly possible for an individual to adopt the way of life of the future. . . without having to wait for others to do so.
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A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind.
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The aim of university education should be to turn out true servants of the people who will live and die for the country's freedom.
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If one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains.
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Every moment of my life I realize that God is putting me on my trial.
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There is no fundamental cleavage between Hindus and Mussalmans. We have lived in the same land as brothers for generations and what has been possible all these years will certainly be possible in the future.
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The mind may wander, but let not the senses wander with it. If the senses wander where the mind takes them, one is done for.
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I implicitly believe in the truth of the saying that not a blade of grass moves but by His will. He will save it (my life) if He needs it for further service in this body. None can save it against His will.
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We must break through the provincial crust if we are to reach the core of all-India nationalism.
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Ahimsa is my God, and Truth is my God.
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The Divine Music is incessantly ringing within all of us, but the loud senses drown the delicate Music, which is unlike and infinitely superior to anything we can perceive with our senses.
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There is no path to peace; peace is the path.
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It is not given to man to know the whole Truth. His duty lies in living up to the truth as he sees it, and in doing so, to resort to the purest means, i.e., to non-violence. God alone knows absolute truth. Therefore, I have often said, Truth is God. It follows that man, a finite being, cannot know absolute truth. Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. This is God's attribute alone. Relative truth is all we know. Therefore, we can only follow the truth as we see it. Such pursuit of truth cannot lead anyone astray.
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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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When there is no desire for fruit, there is also no temptation for untruth or himsa.
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...service can have no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it. When it is done for show or for fear of public opinion, it stunts the man and crushes his spirit. Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.
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Concentrate on your task.
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No police officer could compel a satyagrahi to give evidence against a person who has confessed to him. A satyagrahi would never be guilty of a betrayal of trust.
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The spirit of democracy... requires change of the heart... requires the inculcation of the spirit of brotherhood.
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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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Ravana was a rakshasa but this rakshasi of untouchability is even more terrible than Ravana.
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Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation.