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Mahatma Gandhi Quotes - Page 93

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Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion.

Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion.

Prayer, Fasting, Common

Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.192, Tara Publishing

Animal experimentation is the blackest of all the black crimes that a man is at present committing... We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings... I abhor [animal] experimentation with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence... The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Animal, Greatness, Men

Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. That strength may be physical or of the heart or, if we do not fight shy of the word, of the spirit. Strength of the heart connotes soul-force. Let it be remembered that physical force is transitory, even as the body is transitory. But the power of spirit is permanent even as the spirit is everlasting.

Strong, Heart, Fighting

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”

Democracy, disciplined and enlightened, is the finest thing in the world.

Democracy, World, Finest

Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.23, Rajpal & Sons

A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much.

Oneness, Opinion

Study not man in his animal nature - man following the laws of the jungle - but study man in all his glory.

Animal, Men, Law

Mahatma Gandhi (1971). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

I eat to live, to serve, and also, if it so happens, to enjoy, but I do not eat for the sake of enjoyment.

Food, Sake, Enjoy

Jesus, to me, is a great world teacher among others.

Teacher, Jesus, World

Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.41, A&C Black

Complete non-violence is complete absence of ill-will against all that lives. It therefore embraces even sub-human life, not excluding noxious insects and beasts. They have not been created to feed our destructive propensities. If we only knew the mind of the Creator, we should find their proper place in His creation.

Philosophical, Animal, Ill Will

Mahatma Gandhi (1943). “The Wisdom of Gandhi in His Own Words”

To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty.

Creative, Overcoming, Slavery

Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “Collected Works”

I look upon air-power for destruction as a terrible crime against humanity.

Air, Humanity, Looks

Source: gandhiking.ning.com

I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest good of the greatest number. The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all.

Peace, Real, Believe

Mahatma Gandhi (1966). “Socialism of My Conception”

Men are good. But they are poor victims making themselves miserable under the false belief that they are doing good.

Men, Good Man, Belief

Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.39, Oxford University Press

One who hooks his fortune to ahimsa, the law of love, daily lessens the circle of destruction and to that extent promotes life and love.

Life And Love, Law, Circles

Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.91, A&C Black

Hand-spinning is designed to put millions of rupees in the hands of the poor villagers.

Hands, Rupees, Spinning

The spinning wheel means national consciousness and a contribution by every individual to a definite constructive national work.

Mean, Spinning, Wheels

Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.194, Vintage

If hand-spinning is an effective method of making India self-supporting, it must be made part of the franchise.

Self, Hands, India

Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Young India, 1924-1926”

God has blessed me with the mission to place nonviolence before the nation for adoption.

God, Blessed, Adoption

Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

If it had not been for the Christians that I have known I might have been a Christian.

Christian, Might, Has Beens

The foundation of service and your real training lie in spinning khaddar.

Real, Lying, Training

Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

Truth and nonviolence are as old as the hills.

Hills, Nonviolence

Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.33, Rajpal & Sons

A democratic organization has to dare to do the right at all costs.

Organization, Democracy, Cost

Mahatma Gandhi (1981). “Collected Works”

Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself?

Art, Speaks Out, Needs

Mahatma Gandhi (1976). “Collected Works”

Those who think religion has nothing to do with politics understand neither religion or politics... The things that will destroy us are: politics without principles, pleasures without conscience, knowledge without character, business without morality.

Character, Thinking, Principles

I have known only one way of carrying on missionary work, viz., by personal example and discussion with searchers for knowledge.

Example, Missionary, Carrying On

Mahatma Gandhi (2008). “My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography”, p.283, Jaico Publishing House

Born: October 2, 1869 - January 30, 1948
Occupation: Civil rights leader

Quotes: 3171

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