Top mahatma Quotes Collection
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Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.Collection: Mahatma
Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.Collection: Mahatma
Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.Collection: Mahatma
A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.Collection: Mahatma
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.Collection: Mahatma
I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.Collection: Mahatma
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.Collection: Mahatma
I wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.Collection: Mahatma
I am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom.'Collection: Mahatma
Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.Collection: Mahatma
Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.Collection: Mahatma
Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.Collection: Mahatma
Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.Collection: Mahatma
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.Collection: Mahatma
To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.Collection: Mahatma
A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.Collection: Mahatma
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.Collection: Mahatma
What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.Collection: Mahatma
He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.Collection: Mahatma
That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.Collection: Mahatma
Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.Collection: Mahatma
I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.Collection: Mahatma
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.Collection: Mahatma
I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.Collection: Mahatma
Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.Collection: Mahatma
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.Collection: Mahatma
I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.Collection: Mahatma
I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.Collection: Mahatma
Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.Collection: Mahatma
I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.Collection: Mahatma
Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.Collection: Mahatma
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.Collection: Mahatma
We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.Collection: Mahatma
Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.Collection: Mahatma
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.Collection: Mahatma
Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.Collection: Mahatma
It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.Collection: Mahatma
The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.Collection: Mahatma
We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.Collection: Mahatma
Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.Collection: Mahatma
There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.Collection: Mahatma
I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.Collection: Mahatma
For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.Collection: Mahatma
Poverty is the worst form of violence.Collection: Mahatma
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.Collection: Mahatma
Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.Collection: Mahatma
In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.Collection: Mahatma
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.Collection: Mahatma
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.Collection: Mahatma
The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.Collection: Mahatma