M.K Gandhi Quotes
A slave-holder cannot hold a slave without putting himself or his deputy in the cage for holding the slave.
Soul-force comes only through God's grace and never descends upon a man who is a slave to lust.
The use of soul-force for turning stones into bread would have been considered, as it is still considered, as black magic.
It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world.
I have endeavored to show that there is no real service of humanity in the profession of medicine and that it is injurious to mankind.
Man is not to drown himself in the well of the Shastras, but he is to dive in their broad ocean and bring out pearls.
Man has regarded woman as his tool. She has learnt to be his tool and in the end found it is easy and pleasurable to be such, because when one drags another in his fall, the descent is easy.
Every man has an equal right to the necessaries of life even as birds and beasts have.
All the great religions of the world inculcate equality and brotherhood of mankind and the virtue of toleration.
A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate.
For me nonviolence is a creed. I must act up to it, whether I am alone or have companions.
As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality.
Education without courage is like a wax statue - beautiful to look at but bound to melt at the first touch of a hot stuff.
The real property that a parent can transmit to all equally is his or her character and educational facilities.
No effort is complete without prayer - without definite recognition that the best human endeavor is of no effect if it has not God's blessing behind it.
All I want to say, with the utmost emphasis at my command, is that the description of India as a military country is wrong.
I believe in advaita, I believe in the essential unity of man and for that matter of all that lives.
A warrior lives on his wars, whether offensive or defensive. And he suffers a collapse if he finds that his warring capacity is unwanted.
The whole world is like the human body with its various members. Pain in one member is felt in the whole body.
It is indeed a million times better to appear untrue before the world than to be untrue to ourselves.
Execution of the constructive programme in its entirety means more than Swaraj. It means Ram Raj, Khudai Sultanat or the Divine Kingdom.