Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
Anything which is a hindrance to the fight of the soul is a delusion and a snare, even like the body which often does hinder you in the path of salvation.
My soul refuses to be satisfied so long as it is a helpless witness of a single wrong or a single misery.
Spiritual instruments suffer in their potency when their use is taught through non-spiritual messages which are self-propagating.
Temples are like spiritual hospitals, and the sinful, who are spiritually diseased, have the first right to be ministered to by them.
Mortification of the flesh has been held all the world over as a condition of spiritual progress.
Birth-control through self-restraint is the most desirable, sensible and totally harmless method.
Without the study of Samskrit one cannot become a true Indian and a true learned man.
There is a power now slumbering within us, which is awakened would do to evil what light does to darkness.
Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone.
The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit.
What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells?
The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.
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.
