M.K Gandhi Quotes
We believe as much in the purity of race as we think they do... We believe also that the white race of South Africa should be the predominating race.
You said, 'How is it possible for democracy to work with an illiterate people who are dying of hunger?' But with that people we made a democracy work.
Happiness is such a fleeting point of view - there's no such thing as continual happiness.
I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.
No two men are absolutely alike, not even twins, yet there is much that is indispensably common to all mankind.
I have felt that the Gita teaches us that what cannot be followed in day-to-day practice cannot be called religion.
Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.
The only devils in the world are those running around in our own hearts - that is where the battle should be fought.
Religion is one tree with many branches. As branches, you may say, religions are many, but as a tree, religion is only one.
I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.
There is not a moment when I do not feel the presence of a Witness whose eye misses nothing and with whom I strive to keep in tune.
The elephant needs a thousand times more food than the ant but that is not an indication of inequality.
Nanda broke down every barrier and won his way to freedom not by brag, not by bluster, but by the purest form of self-suffering.
I believe that just as everyone inherits a particular form so does he inherit the particular characteristics and qualities of his progenitors, and to make this admission is to conserve one's energy.
Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties.
My life has been full of external tragedies and if they have not left any visible effect on me, I owe it to the teaching of the Bhagavadgita.
I am part and parcel of the whole and cannot find God apart from the rest of humanity.
Exploitation and domination of one nation over another can have no place in a world striving to put an end to all war.
When real independence comes to India, the Congress and the League will be nowhere unless they represent the real opinion of the country.
I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such things as crawl upon earth.
The unlimited capacity of the plant world to sustain man at his highest is a region as yet unexplored by modern science.
Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses.
The force of nonviolence is infinitely more wonderful and subtle than the material forces of nature, like electricity.
The mind may wander, but let not the senses wander with it. If the senses wander where the mind takes them, one is done for.
A country that is governed by its national army can never be morally free and, therefore, its so-called weakest member can never rise to his full moral height.
The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.
Crime and vice generally require darkness for prowling. They disappear when light plays upon them.
If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality.
I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice.
