370 quotes found
“Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself if the s...”
“There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid.”
“In the very first month of Indian Opinion, I realized that the sole aim of journalism should be service. The newspaper press is a great power, but just as an unchained torrent of water submerges wh...”
“My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who do the work, and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition there.”
“While in Bombay, I began, on one hand, my study of Indian law and, on the other, my experiments in dietetics in which Virchand Gandhi, a friend, joined me. My brother, for his part was trying his b...”
“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 gro...”
“One should not think of embracing another religion before one had fully understand his own.”
“Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.”
“I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption.”
“They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.”
“I am & have been for years a confirmed anti-vaccinationist. Anti-vaccination has no backing from the orthodox medical opinion. A medical man who expresses himself against vaccination loses caste. T...”
“I hold that it is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others'religions as we would have them to respect our own, a frie...”
“If I want to deprive you of your watch, I shall certainly have to fight for it; if I want to buy your watch, I shall have to pay for it; and if I want a gift, I shall have to plead for it; and, acc...”
“Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilisation.”
“I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.”
“If I had no sense of humor I should long ago have committed suicide.”
“Faith is not something to grasp it is a state to grow into.”
“Whenever you are confronted with an opponent conquer him with love.”
“Faith is the function of the heart.”
“To a man with an empty stomach food is god.”
