Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
All religions enjoined worship of the One God who is all-pervasive. He is present even in a drop of water or in a tiny speck of dust.
Our prayer is a heart search. It is a reminder to ourselves that we are helpless without His support.
Religion is entirely a personal matter. Each one could approach his Creator as he liked.
India's way is not Europe's. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages.
Whatever else India may not be, she is at least one thing, She is the greatest storehouse of spiritual knowledge.
In a self-respecting India, is not every woman's virtue as much every man's concern as his own sister's?
I must not refrain from saying that India can gain more by waiving the right of punishment.
I would far rather that India perished than that she won Her freedom at the sacrifice of truth.
I would rather have India reduced to a state of pauperism than have thousands of drunkards in our midst.
If the Commander-in-Chief will look beyond the defence forces, he will discover that the real India is not military but peace-loving.
Khadi to me is the symbol of unity of Indian humanity, of its economic freedom and equality and, therefore, ultimately, in the poetic expression of Jawaharlal Nehru, 'the livery of India's freedom'.
Our non-co-operation is with the system the English have established in India, with the material civilization and its attendant greed and exploitation of the weak.
Nothing depends upon the death of an individual, be he ever so great, but much depends upon the freedom of India.
The whole of India was the home of every Indian who considered himself as one and behaved as such, no matter to what faith he belonged.
Many persons claiming different faiths make us one and an indivisible nation. All these have an equal claim to be the nationals of India.
Unity among the different races and the different religions of India is indispensable to the birth of national life.
In this, of all the countries in the world, possession of inordinate wealth by individuals should be held as a crime against Indian humanity.
We must break through the provincial crust if we are to reach the core of all-India nationalism.
The commerce between India and Africa will be of ideas and services, not of the manufactured goods against raw materials after the fashion of the Western exploiters.
Khadi service, village service and Harijan service are one in reality, though three in name.
I would ask you to come in Khadi, for Khadi links you with the fallen and the down-trodden.
Khadi will cease to have any value in my eyes if it does not usefully employ the millions.
Coal is not dear for the coal-miner who can use it there and then, nor is khadi dear for the villager who manufactures his own khadi.
If we have the khadi spirit in us, then we should surround ourselves with simplicity in every walk of life.
My only sanction is the love and affection in which you hold me. But it has its weaknesses, as it has its strengths.
Violence is bound sooner or later to exhaust itself but peace cannot issue out of such exhaustion.
We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him.
To prevent the workers from going to their work by standing in front of them is pure violence and must be given up.
By using violence to subjugate one another we are using violence against our own souls.