Quotes About Mahatma Gandhi

All the great religions of the world inculcate equality and brotherhood of mankind and the virtue of toleration.

In man, reason quickens and guides feelings; in brute, the soul lies ever dormant.

Mahatma Gandhi claimed that betting was a more pernicious evil than drinking.

I do not accept the orthodox teaching that Jesus was or is God incarnate in the accepted sense or that he was or is the only Son of God.

The spirit of non-violence necessarily leads to humility. Non-violence means reliance on God, the rock of ages. If we would seek his aid, we must approach Him with a humble and contrite heart.

By Ram Raj I do not mean Hindu Raj. I mean by Ram Raj, Divine Raj, the Kingdom of God.

To me Truth is God and there is no way to find Truth except the way of nonviolence.

What I want to achieve, what I have been striving and pining for these thirty years, is self-realization, that is, to see God face to face.

Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion.

The Bhagavad-Gita calls on humanity to dedicate body, mind and soul to pure duty and not to become mental voluptuaries at the mercy of random desires and undisciplined impulses.

Truth is God, and Truth overrides all our plans. The whole Truth is only embodied within the heart of Great Power-Truth.

Mahatma Gandhi was someone who demonstrated the tremendous power of leadership by example.

Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion.

We also see the power of weakness. In Fourth Generation warfare, the weak often have more moral power than the strong. One of the first people to employ the power of weakness was Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi's insistence on non-violent tactics to defeat the British in India was and continues to be a classic strategy of Fourth Generation war. When the British responded to Indian independence rallies with violence, they immediately lost the moral war.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

I have felt that the Gita teaches us that what cannot be followed in day-to-day practice cannot be called religion.

The concepts of truth may differ. But all admit and respect truth. That truth I call God. For sometime I was saying, "God is Truth," but that did not satisfy me. So now I say, "Truth is God."

My attitude towards the British is one of utter friendliness and respect.

It is said that Mahatma Gandhi, when asked about Western civilization, remarked, 'I think it would be a good idea.' That's how I feel about intelligent life on Earth, especially when I think about the question of what truly intelligent life might look like elsewhere in the universe.

The script was focused on how Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi turned into the Mahatma. There was no room for many others who mattered in the making of India. There was no space for Subhas Chandra Bose or Rajaji that an Indian director might have been pressured to include. This process of elimination was necessary.

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

Education is the basic tool for the development of consciousness and the reconstitution of society.

In 1931, when Anwar was twelve, Mahatma Gandhi passed through the Suez Canal on his way to London to negotiate the fate of India. The ship stopped in Port Said, whereupon Egyptian journalists besieged the ascetic leader. The correspondent for Al-Ahram marveled that Gandhi was wearing "nothing but a scrap of cloth worth five piasters, wire rim glasses worth three piasters

Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society.