Quotes about Gandhi

I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker in this cause. The example of great and pure characters is the only thing that can produce fine ideas and noble deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus, or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?

the only thing that can lead us to noble thoughts and deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and irresistibly invites abuse. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus, or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?

The example of great and pure characters is the only thing that can produce fine ideas and noble deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus, or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?

Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses or imperfections.

Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves.

When Gandhi was asked what he thought of Western civilization, he said, "It would be nice."

Mass civil disobedience was for the attainment of independence.

Independence of my conception means nothing less than the realization of the "Kingdom of God" within you and on this earth.

Ahimsa is one of the world's great principles, which no power on earth can wipe out.

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.

It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world.