Quotes about Mahatma Gandhi

My uniform experience has convinced me that there is no other God than Truth

My fast is, among other things, meant to qualify me for achieving that equal and selfless love.

If it is possible for the human tongue to give the fullest description of God, I have come to the conclusion that God is Truth.

Truth is the right designation of God.

True religion being the greatest thing in life and in the world, has been exploited the most.

In 1931, when Anwar was twelve, Mahatma Gandhi passed through the Suez Canal on his way to London to negotiate the fate of India. The ship stopped in Port Said, whereupon Egyptian journalists besieged the ascetic leader. The correspondent for Al-Ahram marveled that Gandhi was wearing "nothing but a scrap of cloth worth five piasters, wire rim glasses worth three piasters

Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country.

Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion.

That religion and that nation will be blotted out of the face of the earth which pins its faith on injustice, untruth or violence.

I have felt that the Gita teaches us that what cannot be followed in day-to-day practice cannot be called religion.

The willing sacrifice of the innocents is the most powerful retort to insolent tyranny that has yet to be conceived by God or man.

A man like me cannot but believe that this earthquake is a divine chastisement sent by God for our sins.