Explore Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.

Real beauty is my aim.

Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals?

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.

My greatest weapon is mute prayer.

It has often occurred to me that a seeker after truth has to be silent.

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.

The person who discovered the law of love was a far greater scientist than any of our modern scientists. Only our explorations have not gone far enough and so it is not possible for everyone to see all its workings.

True education must correspond to the surrounding circumstances or it is not a healthy growth.

What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.

Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.

Love requires that true education should be easily accessible to all and should be of use to every villager in this daily life. The emphasis laid on the principle of spending every minute of one's life usefully is the best education for citizenship.

By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit.

A teacher who establishes rapport with the taught, becomes one with them, learns more from them than he teaches them. He who learns nothing from his disciples is, in my opinion, worthless. Whenever I talk with someone I learn from him. I take from him more than I give him.

Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India.

Education should be so revolutionized as to answer the wants of the poorest villager, instead of answering those of an imperial exploiter.

The real difficulty is that people have no idea of what education truly is. We assess the value of education in the same manner as we assess the value of land or of shares in the stock-exchange market. We want to provide only such education as would enable the student to earn more. We hardly give any thought to the improvement of the character of the educated. The girls, we say, do not have to earn; so why should they be educated? As long as such ideas persist there is no hope of our ever knowing the true value of education.

As the means, so the end.

A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.

The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.

It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.