Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths.
Mahatma GandhiHindu religious literature, indeed all religious literature, is full of illustrations to prove the truth.
Mahatma GandhiThere can be in the eyes of God no distinction between man and man, even as there is no distinction between animal and animal.
Mahatma GandhiDomestic matters are trifles for us. But they occupy the principal part of my life. They teach me to know my limitations.
Mahatma GandhiI submit that scientists have not yet explored the hidden possibilities of the innumerable seeds, leaves and fruits for giving the fullest possible nutrition to mankind.
Mahatma GandhiMy plea is for banishing the English language as a cultural usurper, as we successfully banished the political rule of the English usurper.
Mahatma GandhiThere are a lot of ways to become a failure, but never taking a chance is the most successful. As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Mahatma GandhiTo change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice.
Mahatma GandhiThere are sufficient resources on this planet to answer the needs of all, but not enough to satisfy everyone's greed.
Mahatma GandhiFreedom of India will demonstrate to all the exploited races of the earth that their freedom is very near.
Mahatma GandhiThe time is fast coming when politicians will cease to fear the religion of humanity and humanitarians will find entrance into political life indispensable for full service.
Mahatma GandhiOnly this much I knew - that under ideal conditions, true education could be imparted only by the parents, and that then there should be the minimum of outside help.
Mahatma GandhiA general belief seems to prevail in the colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than the savages or natives of Africa. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir.
Mahatma GandhiSelf-sacrifice of one innocent man is a million times more potent than the sacrifice of a million men who die in the act of killing others.
Mahatma GandhiHuman nature will find itself only when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or brutal.
Mahatma GandhiThe willing sacrifice of the innocents is the most powerful retort to insolent tyranny that has yet to be conceived by God or man.
Mahatma GandhiIf a man voluntarily allows himself to be crushed, he yields the oil of moral energy which sustains the world.
Mahatma GandhiThe spinning wheel is itself an exquisite piece of machinery. My head daily bows in reverence to its unknown inventor.
Mahatma GandhiPrayer needs no speech. It is in itself independent of any sensuous effort. But it must be combined with the utmost humility.
Mahatma GandhiWith every true friendship, we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests.
Mahatma GandhiThe message of Jesus has proved ineffective because the environment was unready to receive it.
Mahatma GandhiIf intellect plays a large part in the field of violence, I hold that it plays a larger part in the field of nonviolence.
Mahatma GandhiWe have to make truth and non-violence not matters for mere individual practice but for practice by groups and communities and nations. That at any rate is my dream. I shall live and die in trying to realize it. My faith helps me to discover new truths every day.
Mahatma GandhiHatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two... The duty of a human being is to diminish hatred and to promote love.
Mahatma GandhiJust as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for nonviolence.
Mahatma GandhiReason has to be strengthened by suffering, and suffering opens the eyes of understanding.
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