Quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

There is no yajna (sacrifice) greater than spinning calculated to bring peace to the troubled spirit, to soothe the distracted student's mind, to spiritualize his life.

Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

There is no need of a teacher for those who know how to think.

If you give me rice, I'll eat today; if you teach me how to grow rice, I'll eat every day.

If everyone will try to understand the core of his own religion and adhere to it, and will not allow false teachers to dictate to him, there will be no room left for quarrelling.

Jesus, to me, is a great world teacher among others.

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.

Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life.

Nonviolent nationalism is a necessary condition of corporate or civilized life.

A nonviolent person's life is always at the disposal of him who would take it.

Life will not be a pyramid with the apex sustained by the bottom, but an oceanic circle whose centre will be the individual.

I see neither bravery nor sacrifice in destroying life or property, for offense or defense.

Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life.

To know music is to transfer it to life.

The spinning wheel for us is the foundation for all public corporate life.

I could not be leading a religious life unless I identified myself with the whole of mankind, and that I could not do unless I took part in politics.

I believe in God, not as a theory but as a fact more real than life itself.

When nonviolence is accepted as the law of life, it must pervade the whole being and not be applied to isolated acts.

The very first step in nonviolence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance, loving kindness.

Absolute calm is not the law of ocean. And it is the same with the ocean of life.

Purity of life is the highest and truest art.