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Mahatma Gandhi Quotes - Page 60

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The principle of majority does not work when differences on fundamentals are involved.

The principle of majority does not work when differences on fundamentals are involved.

Mahatma Gandhi
Reality, Differences, Majority

It is knowledge that ultimately gives salvation.

Mahatma Gandhi
Knowledge, Giving, Salvation
Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

This civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed.

Mahatma Gandhi
Self, Civilization, Patient
Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.18, Penguin Books India

You will eat not to satisfy your palate but your hunger. A self-indulgent man lives to eat; a self-restrained man eats to live.

Mahatma Gandhi
Men, Self, Hunger
Mahatma Gandhi (1950). “The Good Life”

Means are ends in the making

Mahatma Gandhi
Mean, Ends

I claim to be no more than an average man with below average capabilities.

Mahatma Gandhi
Men, Average, Claims

Non-cooperation with tyrants is a duty.

Mahatma Gandhi
Tyrants, Cooperation, Duty

If I was to be their real teacher and guardian, I must touch their hearts, I must share their joys and sorrows, I must help them to solve the problems that faced them, and I must take along the right channel the surging aspirations of their youth.

Mahatma Gandhi
Teacher, Real, Heart
Mahatma Gandhi (2008). “My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography”, p.359, Jaico Publishing House

And whilst he may not claim superiority by reason of learning, I myself must not withold that meed of homage that learning, wherever it resides, always commands.

Mahatma Gandhi
May, Reason, Claims
Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.209, Penguin Books India

Destruction is not the law of humans. Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him. Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.

Mahatma Gandhi
Brother, Men, Hands
Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.77, A&C Black

I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no dis-advantage whatever. In fact I can see that, on the contrary, it has been all to my advantage.

Mahatma Gandhi
Laughter, Facts, Shyness
Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.55, Courier Corporation

My idea of village SWARAJ is that is a complete republic, independent of its neighbors for its own vital wants, and yet interdependent for many others which dependence is a necessity.

Mahatma Gandhi
Independent, Ideas, Village

When you practice a life of non-violence you no longer need seek the truth, the truth finds you.

Mahatma Gandhi
Practice, Needs, Violence

Because no one sees the truth does not make it untrue.

Mahatma Gandhi
Doe, Untrue

Your readiness to suffer will light the torch of freedom which will never be put out.

Mahatma Gandhi
Light, Suffering, Torches

No human being is so bad as to be beyond redemption.

Mahatma Gandhi
Redemption, Humans, Human Beings
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.30, Courier Corporation

... when all violence subsides in the human heart, the state which remains is love. It is not something we have to acquire; it is always present, and needs only to be uncovered. This is our real nature, not merely to love one person here, another there, but to be love itself.

Mahatma Gandhi
Real, Heart, Needs

3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, but 9 is not prime; -in this incarnation.

Mahatma Gandhi
Prime, Incarnation

Violence will prevail over violence, only when someone can prove to me that darkness can be dispelled by darkness

Mahatma Gandhi
Darkness, Violence, Prove To Me

Love in the sense of ahimsa has only a limited number of votaries in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi
Numbers, World, Ahimsa
Mahatma Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Truth and Non-Violence”, Clarendon Press

Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience.

Mahatma Gandhi
Facts, Theory, Ahimsa
Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

Self-realization is the object of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures.

Mahatma Gandhi
Self, Scripture, Gita
Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi”, p.18, North Atlantic Books

According to the letter of the Gita, it is possible to say that warfare is consistent with renunciation of fruit.

Mahatma Gandhi
Letters, Fruit, Warfare
Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi”, p.23, North Atlantic Books

The whole of India was the home of every Indian who considered himself as one and behaved as such, no matter to what faith he belonged.

Mahatma Gandhi
Home, Matter, India
Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Communal Unity”

If we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place.

Mahatma Gandhi
Giving, Village, Want
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.384, Rajpal & Sons