M.K Gandhi Quotes
And he who would be friends with God must remain alone, or make the whole world his friend
Truth is transcendent. There are many expressions of it and ways to glimpse it. We cannot hold it in our clenched fist, but must hold it in our open palm and invite others to see it for themselves.
The first condition of humaneness is a little humility and a little diffidence about the correctness of one's conduct and a little receptiveness.
If one does not practice nonviolence in one's own personal relations with others and hopes to use it in bigger affairs, one is vastly mistaken.
Truth and nonviolence demand that no human being may debar himself from serving any other human being, no matter how sinful he may be.
Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.
By patriotism I mean the welfare of the whole people, if I secure it at the hands of my opponent, I should bow down my head to him.
Let the Gita be to you a mine of diamonds, as it has been to me; let it be your constant guide and friend on life's way.
In the characteristics of the perfected man of the Gita, I do not see any to correspond to physical warfare.
I still somehow or other fancy that "my philosophy" represents the true meaning of the teaching of the Gita.
To one who reads the spirit of the Gita, it teaches the secret of nonviolence, the secret of realizing self through the physical body.
The Charkha is intended to realize the essential and living oneness of interest among India's myriads.
The Charkha is the symbol of nonviolence on which all life, if it is to be real life, must be based.
The Charkha is the symbol of sacrifice, and sacrifice is essential for the establishment of the image of the deity.
Non-co-operation is a movement intended to invite Englishmen to co-operate with us on honourable terms or retire from our land.
Swaraj means, a state such that we can maintain our separate existence without the presence of the English.
However virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India.
It is better to be charged with cowardice and weakness than to be guilty of denial of our oath and sin against God.
It was manly and dignified to rely upon God for the dissolution of all troubles. He was the only infallible help, guide and friend.
Nonviolence is an attribute of the Almighty whose ways of fulfilling Himself are inscrutable.
Man in the flesh is essentially imperfect. He may be described as being made in the image of God but is far from being God.
Without an unreserved surrender to His grace, complete mastery over thoughts is impossible.
Through realization of freedom of India, I hope to realize and carry on the mission of brotherhood of man.
To gain India's freedom, the capacity for suffering must go hand in hand with the capacity for ceaseless labour.
I want for India complete independence in the full English sense of that English term.
I would not sell the vital interests of the untouchables for the sake of winning the freedom of India.
I would bend the knee before the poorest scavenger, the poorest untouchable in India for having participated in crushing him for centuries; I would even take the dust off his feet.
My varnashram dharma teaches me that there must be some significance in the fact of my being born in India instead of in Europe.
Even if the whole of India, ranged on one side, were to declare that Hindu-Muslim unity is impossible, I will declare that it is perfectly possible.