Mahatma Gandhi
The sanyasa of the Gita will not tolerate complete cessation of activity.Collection: Gita
The message of the Gita is to be found in the second chapter of the Gita where Lord Krishna speaks of the balanced state of mind, of mental equipoise.Collection: Mind
The Gita has become for me the key to the scriptures of the world.Collection: Keys
Let the Gita be to you a mine of diamonds, as it has been to me; let it be your constant guide and friend on life's way.Collection: Way
My love of the British is equal to that of my own people.Collection: People
My faith in non-co-operation is as bright as ever.Collection: Faith
My implicit faith in nonviolence does mean yielding to minorities when they are really weak.Collection: Faith
With me the connection between the cosmic phenomena and human behaviour is a living faith that draws me nearer to God, humbles me and makes me readier for facing Him.Collection: Faith
Without a belief in my programme and without an acceptance of my condition, you will ruin me, ruin yourselves and ruin the cause.Collection: Faith
What faith can you place in a general or a soldier who lacks resolution and determination, who says, 'I shall keep guard as long as I can'?Collection: Faith
Can a general fight on the strength of soldiers, who, he knows, have no faith in him?Collection: Faith
God always saves the world from the consequences of unintended errors of men who live in fear of Him.Collection: God
God alone is immortal, imperishable.Collection: God
God alone is truth, everything else is transitory and illusory.Collection: God
God alone knows absolute Truth.Collection: God
God cannot be so cruel and unjust as to make the distinctions of high and low between man and man, and woman and woman.Collection: God
God created man to work for his food and said that those who ate without work were thieves.Collection: God
God does not punish directly. His ways are inscrutable.Collection: God
And everyone who wills can hear the Voice. It is within every one. But like everything else it requires previous and definite preparation.Collection: Voice
The scriptures of Christians, Mussalmans and Hindus are all replete with the teaching of ahimsa.Collection: Christian
My knowledge of the letter of the Shastras is better, but of true religion they are able to give me but little.Collection: Giving
It is a tragedy of the first magnitude that millions of people have ceased to use their hands as hands. Nature has bestowed upon us this great gift which is our hands. If the craze for machinery method continues, it is highly likely that a time will come when we shall be so incapacitated and weak that we shall begin to curse ourselves for having forgotten the use of the living machines given to us by God.Collection: Hands
Self-defense...is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation.Collection: Self
Unlike the animal, God has given man the faculty of reason.Collection: Animal
If we want to cultivate a true spirit of democracy we cannot afford to be intolerant. Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.Collection: Struggle
Non-cooperation is directed not against men but against measures. It is not directed against the Governors, but against the system they administer. The roots of non-cooperation lies not in hatred but in justice if not in love.Collection: Lying
Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocraticCollection: Views
Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds not words.Collection: Spiritual
If love wasn't the law of life, life would not have persisted in the midst of death.Collection: Life
A person unbound by vows can never be absolutely relied upon.Collection: Vow
I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong.Collection: Strong
Man must choose either of the two courses, the upward or the downward; but as he has the brute in him, he will more easily choose the downward course than the upward, especially when the downward course is presented to him in a beautiful garb. Man easily capitulates when sin is presented in the garb of virtue.Collection: Beautiful
Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes.Collection: Truth
To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.Collection: Ignorance
A fearless woman who knows that her purity is her best shield can never be dishonoured.Collection: Women
A genuine satyagraha should never excite contempt in the opponent even when it fails to command regard or respect.Collection: Opponents
The need of the moment is not one religion, but mutual respect and tolerance of the devotees of the different religions.Collection: Tolerance
I believe that the sum total of the energy of mankind is not to bring us down but to lift us up, and that is the result of the definite, if unconscious, working of the law of love. The fact that mankind persists shows that the cohesive force is greater than the disruptive force, centripetal force greater than centrifugal.Collection: Love
There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.Collection: Hunger
Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large.Collection: Happiness
There is no road to freedom, freedom is the road.Collection: Freedom
Roving dogs do not indicate the civilisation or compassion of the society. They betray on the country the ignorance and lethargy of its members.Collection: Country
If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek. If leaving duties unperformed we run after rights, they will escape us like a will-o'-the-wisp.Collection: Running
God has enabled man to distinguish between his sister, his mother, his daughter and his wife.Collection: God
It's not just words. Action expresses priorities.Collection: Priorities
Englishmen must learn to be Brahmins, not banias.Collection: Language
I will not be a traitor of God to please the whole world.Collection: God
Mine is not a religion of the prison-house. It has room for the least among God's creation.Collection: God
Nations are born out of travail and sufferingCollection: Suffering