Mahatma Gandhi
Quotes
Known for his leadership in the Indian independence movement, he championed nonviolent resistance as a powerful tool for social and political change. His philosophy of Satyagraha, or passive resistance, emphasized truth and nonviolence as foundational principles. His efforts and moral integrity inspired many around the world and led to India's eventual independence from British rule in 1947. His legacy extends beyond politics into the realms of civil rights and social justice, with his methods influencing global movements for equality and freedom.
Mahatma Gandhi
Quotes
Known for his leadership in the Indian independence movement, he championed nonviolent resistance as a powerful tool for social and political change. His philosophy of Satyagraha, or passive resistance, emphasized truth and nonviolence as foundational principles. His efforts and moral integrity inspired many around the world and led to India's eventual independence from British rule in 1947. His legacy extends beyond politics into the realms of civil rights and social justice, with his methods influencing global movements for equality and freedom.
If you want real peace in the world, start with children.
People engaged in a war do not lose temper over matters which affect the fortunes of war.
Islam appeals to people because it appeals also to reason.
Priorities lie in your actions.
A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature.
People say true friends must always hold hands, but true friends don't need to hold hands because they know the other hand will always be there.
The cow can be saved only if buffalo-breeding is given up.
Anything that exists is possible.
The Sermon on the Mount...went straight to my heart. I compared it with the Gita. My young mind tried to unify the teaching of the Gita, the `Light of Asia' and the Sermon on the Mount. That renunciation was the highest form of religion appealed to me greatly.
Fear gone, there can be no hatred.
The West has yet to discover anything so hygienic as the Indian toothstick.
To remove untouchability is a penance that caste Hindus owe to Hinduism and to themselves.
Recall the face of the poorest and weakest man you have seen, and ask yourself if this step you contemplate is going to be any use to him.
An unjust law in itself is an act of violence.
The most practical, the most dignified way of going on in the world is to take people at their word, when you have no positive reason to the contrary.
Your life is your message.
Nothing is of a permanent nature.
The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth.
To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.
Violence begins with the fork.
The unlimited capacity of the plant world to sustain man at his highest is a region as yet unexplored by modern science.
So far as I can see the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained mankind for ages.
Buddha renounced every worldly happiness because he wanted to share with the whole world his happiness which was to be had by men who sacrificed and suffered in the search for truth.
