Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.
Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.
Force that the performance of duty naturally generates is the non-violent and invincible force that satyagraha brings into being.
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary.
Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.
My whole soul rebels against the idea that Hinduism and Islam represent two antagonistic cultures and doctrines.
As soon as we become one with the ocean in the shape of God, there is no more rest for us, nor indeed do we need rest any longer.
In the very act of my non-co-operation, I am seeking their co-operation in my campaign.
My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible.
If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live, I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species.
The measure of a country's greatness should be based on how well it cares for its most vulnerable populations.
To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that being but with him, the whole world.
To say that God permits evil in the world may not be pleasing to the ear. But if He is held responsible for the good, it follows that He has to be responsible for the evil too.
Islam stands for the unity and brotherhood of mankind, and not for disrupting the oneness of the human family.
Under ideal conditions, the barrister and the bhangi (sweeper) should both get the same payment.
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself.
Men like me feel that untouchability is no integral part of Hinduism, it is an excrescence.
My knowledge of the letter of the Shastras is better, but of true religion they are able to give me but little.
Let us give today first the vital things of life and all the grace and ornaments of life will follow.
The scriptures of Christians, Mussalmans and Hindus are all replete with the teaching of ahimsa.
I have no other wish in this world but to find light and joy and peace through Hinduism.
Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation.
The object of the Gita appears to me to be that of showing the most excellent way to attain self-realization.
Who can deny that much that passes for science and art today destroys the soul instead of uplifting it and instead of evoking the best in us, panders to our basest passions?
Through the deliverance of India, I seek to deliver the so-called weaker races of the earth from the crushing heels of Western exploitation in which England is the greatest partner.
It is impossible that God, who is the God of Justice, could have made the distinctions that men observe today in the name of religion.
God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth and He tries you through and through.