Gandhi Quotes

“ولقد علّمتني هذه التجارب, أكثر من أيما وقت مضى, أن من المستحيل عليك, بغير الصبر اللانهائي, أن تحمل الناس على القيام بأي عمل. إن المصلح هو وحده الذي يتلهف على الإصلاح, لا المجتمع الذي يتعيّن على المصلح أن لايتوقع منه شيئاً أفضل من المعارضة, والمقت, والاضطهاد المميت. ولماذا لايعتبر المجتمع تقهقراً مايعتبره المصلح غالياً كالحياة نفسها؟”
― مهاتما غاندي, Gandhi: An Autobiography

“إن الخدمة التي تقدّم في غير ابتهاج, أعجز من أن تعود بالفائدة على أي من الخادم والمخدوم. ولكن جميع المتع والمقتنيات تهزل حتى العدم أمام الخدمة التي تسدى في روح من الابتهاج.”
― مهاتما غاندي, Gandhi: An Autobiography

“لقد كنت دائماً عاجزاً عن أن أفهم كيف يستطيع الناس أن يستشعروا الرفعة والجاه من طريق إذلال إخوانهم في الإنسانية.”
― مهاتما غاندي, Gandhi: An Autobiography

“إن الرجل القليل الكلام نادراً مايكون أحمق في حديثه. إنه يزن كل كلمة.”
― مهاتما غاندي, Gandhi: An Autobiography

“لقد رأيت من ذلك الحين, أني أخطأت الحساب. فالمصلح لايستطيع أن يكون على صداقة حميمة مع ذلك الذي يسعى إلى إصلاحه. إن الصداقة الحقيقية هي وحدة في النفوس يندر أن توجد في هذا العالم. وبين الطبائع المتماثلة وحدها يمكن للصداقة أن تكون دائمة مستحقة للاسم. إن الأصدقاء يتفاعلون, ومن هنا فليس في الصداقة غير متسع صغير جداً للإصلاح.”
― مهاتما غاندي, Gandhi: An Autobiography

“The instruments for the quest of truth are as simple as they are difficult. They may appear quite impossible to an arrogant person, and quite possible to an innocent child.”
― M.K. Gandhi, An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth

“It was not a translation, it was the substance.”
― M.K. Gandhi, An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth

“can never be realized by one who is not pure of heart.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography

“Truth can hardly convey an idea of the indescribable lustre of Truth, a million times more intense than that of the sun we daily see with our eyes.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography

“it is only when one sees one’s own mistakes with a convex lens, and does just the reverse in the case of others, that one is able to arrive at a just relative estimate of the two. I further believe that a scrupulous and conscientious observance of this rule is necessary for one who wants to be a Satyagrahi.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography

“remember that even truthfulness in the practice of the profession cannot cure it of the fundamental defect that vitiates it.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography

“A successful search for Truth means complete deliverance from the dual throng such as of love and hate, happiness and misery.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography

“in trying to enjoy the pleasures of sense, we lose in the end even our capacity for enjoyment. All this is passing before our very eyes, but there are none so blind as those who will not see.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography

“began to take an exclusive fruit diet or to fast on the Ekadashi day, and also to observe Janmashtami and similar holidays.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography

“Passion in man is generally co-existent with a hankering after the pleasures of the palate. And”
― Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography

“Without an unreserved surrender to His grace, complete mastery over thought is impossible.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography

“hold that believers who have to see the same God in others that they see in themselves, must be able to live amongst all with sufficient detachment. And the ability to live thus can be cultivated, not by fighting shy of unsought opportunities for such contacts, but by hailing them in a spirit of service”
― Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography

“Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation and a wicked deed disapprobation, the doer of the deed, whether good or wicked, always deserves respect or pity as the case may be. ‘Hate the sin and not the sinner’ is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practised, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography

“restraint in diet both as to quantity and quality is as essential as restraint in thought and speech.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography

“Truth is like a vast tree, which yields more and more fruit, the more you nurture it. The deeper the search in the mine of truth, the richer the discovery of the gems buried there, in the shape of openings or an ever greater variety of service.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography

“But one thing took deep root in me—the conviction that morality is the basis of things, and that truth is the substance of all morality.”
― M.K. Gandhi, An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth

“Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.     27”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhi: an Autobiography (Green Reader): The Story of my Experiments with Truth

“Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal. Such worship or prayer is no flight of eloquence; it is no lip-homage.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhi: an Autobiography (Green Reader): The Story of my Experiments with Truth

“Service of the poor has been my heart’s desire, and it has always thrown me amongst the poor and enabled me to identify myself with them.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

“Plymouth Brethren confronted me with an argument for which I was not prepared:       'You cannot understand the beauty of our religion. From what you say it appears that you must be brooding over your transgressions every moment of your life, always mending them and atoning for them. How can this ceaseless cycle of action bring you redemption? You can never have peace. You admit that we are all sinners. Now look at the perfection of our belief. Our attempts at improvement and atonement are futile. And yet redemption we must have. How can we bear the burden of sin? We can but throw it on Jesus. He is the only sinless Son of God. It is His word that those who believe in Him shall have everlasting life. Therein lies God's infinite mercy. And as we believe in the atonement of Jesus, our own sins do not bind us. Sin we must. It is impossible to live in this world sinless. And therefore Jesus suffered and atoned for all the sins of mankind. Only he who accepts His great redemption can have eternal peace. Think what a life of restlessness is yours, and what a promise of peace we have.'       The argument utterly failed to convince me. I humbly replied:”
― Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

“Writing it is itself one of the experiments with truth. One”
― Mahatma Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

“It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even mortal persecution. Why”
― Mahatma Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

“It is idle to adjudicate upon the right and wrong of incidents that have already happened. It is useful to understand them and, if possible, to learn a lesson from them for the future. It”
― Mahatma Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

“Facts mean truth, and once we adhere to truth, the law comes to our aid naturally. I”
― Mahatma Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

“I recalled the late Mr. Pincutt’s advice—facts are three-fourths of the law. At”
― Mahatma Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi