“The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.”
Mahatma Gandhi“And the police got nervous and they began to kick us in our backs and stomachs, and the crowd shouted 'Mahatma Gandhi ki jai!' and someone took a kerosene tin and began to beat it, and someone took a cattle-bell and began to ring it, and they cried, 'With them, brothers, with them!' and they leaped and they ducked and they came down to lie beside us, and we shouted 'Mahatma Gandhi ki jai! Mahatma Gandhi ki jai!”
Raja Rao, Kanthapura: Indian Novel“There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid.”
Mahatma Gandhi“My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question, but to be consistent with truth as it may present itself to me at a given moment. The result has been that I have grown from truth to truth.”
Mahatma Gandhi“Even Mahatma Gandhi - hardly a comfortable character - always wore a bowler hat with his loin cloth when practising as a barrister in London.”
William Donaldson“One should not think of embracing another religion before one had fully understand his own.”
Mahatma Gandhi“I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality”
Mahatma Gandhi“Violence begins with the fork.”
Mahatma Gandhi“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
Mahatma Gandhi“To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect and their oneness, and should insist upon choosing as their representatives only such persons as are good and true.”
Mahatma Gandhi“All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.”
Mahatma Gandhi