About Mahatma Gandhi: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is also called Bapu (Gujarati: endearment for "father", "papa") in India.
I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
I want the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown of my feet by any.
Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?
To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect and their oneness, and should insist upon choosing as their representatives only such persons as are good and true.
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.
To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.
Truth is like a vast tree which yields more and more fruit the more you nurture it. The deeper the search in the mind of truth, the richer the discovery of the gems buried there.
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.
There are Seven Deadly Social Sins: Politics without principle. Wealth without work. Commerce without morality. Pleasure without conscience. Education without character. Science without humility. Worship without sacrifice.
There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.
I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.
Three-fourths of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world will disappear if we step into the shoes of our adversaries and understand their standpoint.
To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not g...
Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.
Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity; the female sex.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It is when the horizon is the darkest and human reason is beaten down to the ground that faith shines brightest and com...
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
Friendship that insists upon agreement on all things isn't worth the name.
