About Mahatma Gandhi: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is also called Bapu (Gujarati: endearment for "father", "papa") in India.
Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.
When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
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.
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? 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.
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.
Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.
Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
Morality is contraband in war.
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
