I would like to say that that even the teachings of the Koran cannot be exempted from criticism.
Mahatma GandhiIf we are to reach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with children; and if they will grow up in their natural innocence, we won't have to struggle; we won't have to pass fruitless idle resolutions, but we shall go from love to love and peace to peace, until at last all the corners of the world are covered with that peace and love for which consciously or unconsciously the whole world is hungering.
Mahatma GandhiIf I arrogate to myself the exclusive title of being in the right, I usurp the function of the Deity.
Mahatma GandhiIf what passed as nonviolence does not enable people to protect the honour of women, or if it does not enable women to protect their own honour, it is not nonviolence.
Mahatma GandhiA satyagrahi must ceaselessly strive to realize and live truth. And he must never contemplate hurting anyone by thought, word or deed.
Mahatma GandhiAs the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.
Mahatma GandhiA teetotaler would regard it as his duty to associate with his drunkard brother for the purpose of weaning him from the evil habit.
Mahatma GandhiIt is not that I do not get angry. I don't give vent to my anger. I cultivate the quality of patience as angerlessness, and generally speaking, I succeed. But I only control my anger when it comes. How I find it possible to control it would be a useless question, for it is a habit that everyone must cultivate and must succeed in forming by constant practice.
Mahatma GandhiIn placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed.
Mahatma GandhiI cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man, and believing as I do in the theory of reincarnation, I live in the hope that if not in this birth, in some other birth I shall be able to hug all of humanity in friendly embrace.
Mahatma GandhiThe process of learning should be as far as possible a pleasurable one and not laborious
Mahatma GandhiI have found that life persists in the midst of destruction and, therefore, there must be a higher law than that of destruction. Only under that law would a well-ordered society be intelligible and life worth living.
Mahatma GandhiThe author of the Mahabharata has not established the necessity of physical warfare; on the contrary he has proved its futility.
Mahatma GandhiMy wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.
Mahatma GandhiHinduism dies if untouchability lives, and untouchability has to die if Hinduism is to live.
Mahatma GandhiI must rebel against the idea that millions of Indians, who were Hindus, the other day, changed their nationality on adopting Islam as their religion.
Mahatma GandhiNo empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world.
Mahatma GandhiThe story of the creation and similar things in it did not impress me very much, but on the contrary made me incline somewhat towards atheism.
Mahatma GandhiThe socialistic conception of the West was born in an environment reeking with violence.
Mahatma GandhiIt ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion toward our fellow creatures.
Mahatma GandhiNonviolence which to me is the glory of Hinduism, has been sought to be explained away by our people as being meant for the sanyasis only.
Mahatma GandhiIf Gandhism means simply mechanically turning the spinning wheel, it deserves to be destroyed.
Mahatma GandhiIndeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.
Mahatma GandhiIf India adopted the doctrine of love as an active part of her religion and introduced it in her politics. Swaraj would descend upon India from heaven. But I am painfully aware that that event is far off as yet.
Mahatma GandhiI understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong.
Mahatma GandhiLet us, by praying, purify ourselves and we shall not only remove untouchability but shall also hasten the advent of Swaraj.
Mahatma GandhiOne who hooks his fortune to ahimsa, the law of love, daily lessens the circle of destruction and to that extent promotes life and love.
Mahatma GandhiRenunciation is the central sun, round which devotion, knowledge and the rest revolve like planets.
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