Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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He who runs to the doctor, vaidya, or hakim for every little ailment, and swallows all kinds of vegetable and mineral drugs, not only curtails his life, but by becoming the slave of his body instead of remaining its master, loses self-control, and ceases to be a man.
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By spiritual training I mean education of the heart.
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The chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man.
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For a nonviolent struggle, there is no age limit. The blind, the maimed and the bed-ridden may serve, and not only men but women also.
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First they ignore you, then they denounce you, and then they say that they knew what you were saying all the time.
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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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Khadi mentality means decentralization of the production and distribution of the necessaries of life.
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We become Godlike to the extent we realize nonviolence, but we can never become wholly God.
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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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Eye for eye and the world will go blind.
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The Allah of Islam is the same as the God of Christians and the Ishwar of Hindus.
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It was not through democratic methods that Britain bagged India.
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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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Satan mostly employs comparatively moral instruments and the language of ethics to give his aims an air of respectability.
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A prayerful study and experience are essential for a correct interpretation of the scriptures.
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The way to truth lies through ahimsa (nonviolence).
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What has appealed to me most in Tolstoy's life is that he practiced what he preached and reckoned no cost too great in his pursuit of truth.
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What distinguishes man from the brute is his conscious striving to realise the spirit within.
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Outward Peace is useless without inner Peace.
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A man who throws himself on God ceases to fear man.
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For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence.
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My religion teaches me that a promise once made or a vow once taken for a worthy object may not be broken.
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The present war is the saturation point in violence. It spells, to my mind, also its doom.
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When the fear of jail disappears, repression puts heart into the people.