Quotes About Mahatma Gandhi

Great causes cannot be served by intellectual equipment alone, they call for spiritual effort of soul-force.

Perhaps no politician could have pleased him, for his hero was the saintly Mahatma Gandhi.

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.

True religion being the greatest thing in life and in the world, has been exploited the most.

The Citizenship Amendment Act is a historic law. It has fulfilled wishes of the Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi.

He put himself at the head of a movement of irreconcilable imperialist romantics,' wrote Boris Johnson in his recent admiring biography of Churchill. 'Die-hard defenders of the Raj and of the God-given right of every pink-jowled Englishman to sit on his veranda and…glory in the possession of India'. Mahatma

What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.

One of my earliest lessons in guilt was imparted in childhood through the story of the death of Mahatma Gandhi's father.

Time is wealth, and the Gita says the Great Annihilator annihilates those who waste time.

I grew up in India. From my childhood, I remember the great reverence that people held for our national hero, Mahatma Gandhi. He galvanized millions to march as one, disarmed the empire that had ruled his country for nearly a century, and enabled India to become a free and independent nation.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

More than anything, though, my fascination with India had to do with Mahatma Gandhi. Along with Lincoln, King, and Mandela, Gandhi had profoundly influenced my thinking.

My fast is, among other things, meant to qualify me for achieving that equal and selfless love.

The tragedy of India is that the Mahatma, who has numerous streets named after him and has had his statues put up everywhere, who's there in our school books and on our currency, who is used by everyone to hardsell his political ideology, is not emulated in India.

Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him.

There is no "playing with truth" in the Charkha programme, for satyagraha is not predominantly civil disobedience but a quiet and irresistible pursuit of Truth.

In fact, it is more correct to say that Truth is God, than to say that God is Truth.

If fighting for the legislatures meant a sacrifice of truth and nonviolence, democracy would not be worth a moment's purchase.

Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth and the soul requires inward restfulness to attain its full height.

Self-suppression is often necessary in the interest of truth and nonviolence.

If it is possible for the human tongue to give the fullest description of God, I have come to the conclusion that God is Truth.

Truth and nonviolence are both the means and the end, and given the right type of men, the legislatures can be the means of achieving the concrete pursuit of truth and nonviolence.

It is through truth & non-violence that I can have some glimpse of God. Truth & non-violence are my God. They are the obverse and reverse of the same coin.

Harshness is conquered by gentleness, hatred by love, lethargy by zeal and darkness by light.