The ideal is a synthesis of the different cultures that have come to stay in India, that have influenced Indian life, and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We do not know whether it is good to live or to die. Therefore, we should not take delight in living, nor… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Under ideal conditions, the barrister and the bhangi (sweeper) should both get the same payment. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The ideal that marriage aims at is that of spiritual union through the physical. The human love that it incarnates is intended… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
An ideal sanctified by the sacrifices of such master spirits as Lenin cannot go in vain, the noble example of their renunciation… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A votary of ahimsa cannot subscribe to the utilitarian formula (of the greatest good of the greatest number). He will strive for… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A certain degree of physical harmony and comfort is necessary, but above a certain level it becomes a hindrance instead of a… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image