“It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“You yourself as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve love and affection.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“Facts mean truth, and once we adhere to truth, the law comes to our aid naturally.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“Human language can but imperfectly describe God’s ways.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“That we should obey laws whether good or bad is a new-fangled notion. There was no such thing in former days. The people disregarded those laws they did not like and suffered the penalties for their breach.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“Where choice is set between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence ... I prefer to use arms in defense of honor rather than remain the vile witness of dishonor...”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“Then, too, the dissemination of the truth in a society based on coercion was always hindered in one and the same manner, namely, those in power, feeling that the recognition of this truth would undermine their position, consciously or sometimes unconsciously perverted it by explanations and additions quite foreign to it, and also opposed it by open violence.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“But the fact that I had learnt to be tolerant to other religions did not mean that I had any living faith in God.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“The various religions
are like different roads
converging on the same point.
What difference does it make
if we follow different routes,
provided we arrive
at the same destination?”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
