“I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“The devotee of truth is often obliged to grope in the dark.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“If you want something really important to be done you must not merely satisfy the reason, you must move the heart also.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“My experience has shown me that we win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“Why, then, grieve — tatra ka paridevana — asks Shri Krishna. This is the great mystery of God. As a magician creates the illusion of a tree and destroys it, so God sports in endless ways and does not let us know the beginning and the end of his play. Why grieve over it?”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“The heart’s earnest and pure desire is always fulfilled. In my own experience I have often seen this rule verified.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth. ”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help…”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“[We] need the same advice that was given to Martha. If we but do “the one thing needful,” there is no occasion for us to be “anxious and troubled” about the many things in the shape of wanting to know what our Governors will do, or who the next Prime Minister is likely to be, or what laws affecting us are likely to be passed
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
