If you want something done, ask. If you want something done quickly, ask, and then begin counting down from ten with no explanation.
We must widen the circle of our love till it embraces the whole village; the village in its turn must take into its fold the district, the district the province, and so on until the scope of our love becomes co-terminous with the world.
If blood be shed, let it be our own. Let us cultivate the calm courage to die without killing.
Selfishness is blind.
True education is that which proves useful in life and makes you industrious.
Well, India is a country of nonsense.
I know that I have still before me a difficult path to traverse. I must reduce myself to zero. So long as a man does not of his own free will put himself last among his fellow creatures, there is no salvation for him. Ahimsa is the farthest limit of humility.
The Bhagavad-Gita calls on humanity to dedicate body, mind and soul to pure duty and not to become mental voluptuaries at the mercy of random desires and undisciplined impulses.
I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability which is amazing and he seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed.
Duly Enlightened Gandhi’s head by Mall of the ‘Free Press Journal,’ Bombay, in 1932Watches may disagree, but let us not.
Everything we do is futile, but we must do it anyway.
Go for the throat. If you cant, go for the nads.
To a starving man, God can only appear in the form of bread.
The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country’s and ultimately that of the whole of mankind.
I eat to live, to serve, and also, if it so happens, to enjoy, but I do not eat for the sake of enjoyment.
My nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving the dear ones unprotected.
Start changing yourself if you want to change the life around you.
Think of the poorest person you know and see if your next act will be of any use to him.
Real education consists in drawing the best out of yourself.
Genuine laughter is true eloquence and more effective than speech.