Quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
If we import compulsion in matters of religion, there is no doubt that we shall be committing suicide.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Dharma is that which is enjoined by the holy books, followed by the sages, interpreted by the learned and which appeals to the heart.
- Mahatma Gandhi
I desire no honour if I have to conceal my religious beliefs in order to have it.
- Mahatma Gandhi
One should not think of embracing another religion before one had fully understand his own.
- Mahatma Gandhi
A courageous man prefers death to the surrender of self-respect.
- Mahatma Gandhi
To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Man does not live by bread alone. Many prefer self-respect to food.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Knowledge without devotion will be like a misfire.
- Mahatma Gandhi
What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing letters, etc.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Knowledge of the tallest scientist or the greatest spiritualist is like a particle of dust.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Without devotion, action and knowledge are cold and dry and many even become shackles.
- Mahatma Gandhi