A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
Can a general fight on the strength of the soldiers who, he knows, have no faith in him?
Hate the sin and love the sinner.
If I preach against the modern artificial life of sensual enjoyment, and ask men and women to go back to the simple life epitomized in the charkha, I do so because I know that without an intelligent return to simplicity, there is no escape from our descent to a state lower than brutality.
If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.
Three quarters of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world would finish if people were to put on the shoes of their adversaries and understood their points of view.
There is no road towards peace; peace is the road.
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
The Enlightened One has told you in never-to-be- forgotten words that this little span of life is but a passing shadow, a fleeting thing, and if you realize the nothingness of all that appears before your eyes, the nothingness of this material case that we see before us ever changing, then indeed there are treasures […]
