Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Ravana was a rakshasa but this rakshasi of untouchability is even more terrible than Ravana.
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Nothing is of a permanent nature.
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Unlike the animal, God has given man the faculty of reason.
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We become Godlike to the extent we realize nonviolence, but we can never become wholly God.
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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 function of Nayee-Talim is not to teach an occupation, but through it to develop the whole man.
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I cannot give active support in the war effort without denying a life-time of practice.
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The purer I try to become, the nearer I feel to be to God.
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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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God is Truth, Truth is God.
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Facts we would always place before our readers, whether they are palatable or not, and it is by placing them constantly before the public in their nakedness that the misunderstanding between the two communities in South Africa can be removed.
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Cent percent swadeshi gives sufficient scope for the most insatiable ambition for service and a satisfaction of every kind of talent.
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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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It is no non-violence if we merely love those that love us. It is non-violence only when we love those that hate us.
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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 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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A living faith cannot be manufactured by the rule of majority.
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The power we call God defies description.
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The fear of the judge within is more terrible than that of the one without.
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Prayer can come in only when fasting has done its work. It can make fasting easy and bearable.
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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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Outward Peace is useless without inner Peace.
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Democracy disciplined and enlightened is the finest thing in the world. A democracy prejudiced, ignorant, superstitious, will land itself in chaos and may be self-destroyed.
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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.