Mahatma Gandhi Quotes - Page 3

Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.

God has no religion.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.

Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness.

There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.

There are Seven Deadly Social Sins:
Politics without principle.
Wealth without work.
Commerce without morality.
Pleasure without conscience.
Education without character.
Science without humility.
Worship without sacrifice.

It 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.

The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles."

(Young India, 22 October 1925)

I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.

Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

If 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!

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

My Life is My Message

No hay caminos para la paz; la paz es el camino.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

The 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.

All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.

There are seven things that will destroy us:

Wealth without work;
Pleasure without conscience;
Knowledge without character;
Religion without sacrifice;
Politics without principle;
Science without humanity;
Business without ethics.