Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Khaddar delivers the poor from the bonds of the rich and creates a moral and spiritual bond between the classes and the masses.
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In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one else could possibly reject the law of the final supremacy of brute force.
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The fear of the judge within is more terrible than that of the one without.
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No reform is possible unless some of the educated and the rich voluntarily accept the status of the poor, travel third, refuse to enjoy the amenities denied to the poor and, instead of taking avoidable hardships, discourtesies and injustice as a matter of course, fight for their removal.
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The most violent weapon on earth is the table fork.
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If one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains.
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Even the most sublime ideas sound ridiculous if heard too often. Be the change that you want to see in the world.
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The lower animals are our brethren. I include among them the lion and the tiger. We do not know how to live with these carnivorous beasts and poisonous reptiles because of our ignorance.
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Crime and vice generally require darkness for prowling. They disappear when light plays upon them.
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The way of mutual strife and exclusiveness is the only way to perdition and slavery.
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Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him.
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Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
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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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No one has the capacity to judge God. We are drops in that limitless ocean of mercy.
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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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The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there is between trees of the same species. Where in is the cause for anger, envy or discrimination?
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All have not the same capacity. I would allow a man of intellect to earn more, I would not cramp his talent.
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Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction.
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With God as witness, I want to proclaim this truth, that the way of violence cannot bring Swaraj, it can only lead to disaster.
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Nature can provide for the needs of people; [she] can't provide for the greed of people.
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The very word Islam means peace, which is nonviolence.
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I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.
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Unless discipline is rooted in nonviolence, it might prove to be a source of infinite mischief.
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If you give me rice, I'll eat today; if you teach me how to grow rice, I'll eat every day.