“To my mind the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.”
―
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
“You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“The face of Truth is hidden behind the golden veil of maya, says the Upanishad.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills, and in it you too have the only method of saving your people from enslavement.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“Europe I travelled third—and only once first, just to see what it was like—but there I noticed no such difference between the first and the third-classes. In South Africa third-class passengers are mostly Negroes, yet the third-class comforts are better there than here.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“To Believe is something, and do not live it, is dishonest..”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“The aim of the sinless One lies in not doing evil unto those who have done evil unto him.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“The story of the creation and similar things in it did not impress me very much, but on the contrary made me incline somewhat towards atheism.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“When your intellect, once perverted by listening to all manner of arguments, is totally absorbed in the contemplation of God, you will then attain yoga. When a person is firmly established in samadhi — samadhi means fixing the mind on God — he is filled with ecstatic love and, therefore, can be completely indifferent to this world.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
