01c. 1908 ADTo give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.Mahatma Gandhi / quote ↗
02c. 1908 ADThe greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind.Mahatma Gandhi / quote ↗
03c. 1908 ADAll humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.Mahatma Gandhi / quote ↗
04c. 1908 ADIt is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.Mahatma Gandhi / quote ↗
06c. 1908 ADYes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.Mahatma Gandhi / quote ↗
07c. 1908 ADDo not worry in the least about yourself, leave all worry to God,' - this appears to be the commandment in all religions. This need not frighten anyone. He who devotes himself to service with a clear conscience, will day by day grasp the necessity for it in greater measure, and will continually grow richer in faith. The path of service can hardly be trodden by one who is not prepared to renounce self-interest, and to recognize the conditions of his birth. Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make not only for our own happiness but that of the world at large.Mahatma Gandhi / quote ↗
08c. 1908 ADA religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.Mahatma Gandhi / quote ↗
09c. 1908 ADIf I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern!Mahatma Gandhi / quote ↗
10c. 1908 ADThose who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.Mahatma Gandhi / quote ↗
11c. 1908 ADThere is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.Mahatma Gandhi / quote ↗
12c. 1908 ADA man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber.Mahatma Gandhi / quote ↗
13c. 1908 ADFirst they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.Mahatma Gandhi / quote ↗
14c. 1908 ADWhat difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?Mahatma Gandhi / quote ↗
15c. 1908 ADAn unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment.Mahatma Gandhi / quote ↗
16c. 1908 ADAmong the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a whole nation of arms as the blackest.Mahatma Gandhi / quote ↗
17c. 1908 ADFreedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.Mahatma Gandhi / quote ↗
19c. 1908 ADTo call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than wMahatma Gandhi / quote ↗
20c. 1908 ADOf all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity; the female sex.Mahatma Gandhi / quote ↗
21c. 1908 ADI like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.Mahatma Gandhi / quote ↗
22c. 1908 ADYou Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature.Mahatma Gandhi / quote ↗
23c. 1908 ADRemember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.Mahatma Gandhi / quote ↗
24c. 1908 ADIf we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors.Mahatma Gandhi / quote ↗