Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
Hatred is not essential for nationalism. Race hatred will kill the real national spirit.
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
A man with a grain of faith in God never loses hope, because he ever believes in the ultimate triumph of Truth.
Education is the basic tool for the development of consciousness and the reconstitution of society.
Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain as far as is humanly possible from violence.
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.
All of us with one voice call one God differently as Parmatma, Ishwara, Shiva, Vishnu, Rama, Allah, Khuda, Dada-Hormuzda, Jehova, God and an infinite variety of names.
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.
The purification required is not of untouchables but of the so-called superior castes.
Untouchability is a many-headed monster and forms, some of them so subtle as not to be easily detected.
Hesitating to act because the whole vision might not be achieved, or because others do not yet share it, is an attitude that only hinders progress.
An error can never become true however many times you repeat it. The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.
Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire.
When untouchability is rooted out, these distinctions will vanish and no one will consider himself superior to any other.
Homeopathy cures a larger percentage of cases than any other form of treatment and is beyond doubt safer and more economical.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
Our struggle does not end so long as there is a single human being considered untouchable on account of his birth.
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.