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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He who spins before the poor, inviting them to do likewise, serves God as no one else does.
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A faith gained in strength only when people were willing to lay down their lives for it.
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My attempt and prayer are and will be for an honorable peace between belligerent nations in the least possible time.
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I may not unnerve myself while I can struggle against evil.
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Cowardice is incompatible with divine wisdom.
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Concentrate on your task.
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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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Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.
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The very word Islam means peace, which is nonviolence.
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All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.
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Each and every one of you should consider himself to be a trustee for the welfare of the rest of his fellow labourers and not be self-seeking.
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Truth to me is infinitely dearer than the 'mahatmaship' which is purely a burden.
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What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated?
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The chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man.
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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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Non-cooperation intended to pave the way to real honourable and voluntary cooperation based on mutual respect and trust.
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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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There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.
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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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Our aim is not to do things by violence to opponents.
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Destruction of the churches and the like is not the way to Swaraj as defined by the Congress.
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No stone should be left unturned to bring home to the family members that untouchability is a sin and a blot on Hinduism.
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The force of love is the same as the force of the soul or truth.