Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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Cowardice is incompatible with divine wisdom.
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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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When there is no desire for fruit, there is also no temptation for untruth or himsa.
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We must be ever courteous and patient with those who do not see eye to eye with us. We must resolutely refuse to consider our opponents as enemies.
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The state represents violence in a concentrated and organize form.
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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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Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself?
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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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If people knew the working of the law of truth and nonviolence, then they would themselves regulate the matter of its shortage.
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The more I reflect and look back on the past, the more vividly do I feel my limitations.
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To a man with an empty stomach food is God.
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No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reason, will survive the coming reconstruction of society in which the values will have changed and character, not possession of wealth, title or birth, will be the test of merit.
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All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.
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If we were to drive out the English with the weapons with which they enslaved us, our slavery would still be with us even when they have gone.
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They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.
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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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What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated?
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I could not be leading a religious life unless I identified myself with the whole of mankind, and that I could not do unless I took part in politics.
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Of all the black crimes that humanity is committing against the great Creation, vivisection is the blackest.
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Ravana was a rakshasa but this rakshasi of untouchability is even more terrible than Ravana.
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Buddha renounced every worldly happiness because he wanted to share with the whole world his happiness which was to be had by men who sacrificed and suffered in the search for truth.
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The British are weak in numbers, we are weak in spite of our numbers.
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The force of love is the same as the force of the soul or truth.