Mahatma Gandhi Sayings
Posted on May 5, 2008 - Filed Under Author Quotes |
About Author : Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, also known as Mahatma Gandhi, was a major political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement. He was the pioneer of Satyagraha a philosophy that is largely concerned with truth and ‘resistance to evil through active, non violent resistance’ which led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. Gandhi is commonly known in India and across the world as the Mahatma and as Bapu. On 15 June 2007, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution declaring 2 October, his birthday to be the “International Day of Non-Violence.”
Mahatma Gandhi Quotations and Sayings
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.
Many could forgo heavy meals a full wardrobe a fine house et cetera it is the ego they cannot forgo.
Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped by the grain. It is a heart grasp.
Hate the sin and love the sinner.
On Western civilization I think it would be a good idea.
Satisfaction lies in the effort not in the attainment full effort is full victory.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please or worse to avoid trouble.
Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it If not we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
If we are to teach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war we shall have to begin with the children.
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Faith Must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.
The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
There are people in the world so hungry that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.
I object to violence because when it appears to do good the good is only temporary the evil it does is permanent.
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings be they ever so experienced and able can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.
The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.
It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and wisest might err.
Where there is love there is life.
In doing something do it with love or never do it at all.
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