“I believe that just as everyone inherits a particular form so does he inherit the particular characteristics and qualities of his progenitors, and to make this admission is to conserve one's energy.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“The credit system has encircled this beautiful globe of ours like a serpent's coil, and if we do not mind, it bids fair to crush us out of breath.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“I hold that it is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read
sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others'
religions as we would have them to respect our own, a friendly study of the
world's religions is a sacred duty.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“There are many causes that I am prepared to die for, but no causes that I am prepared to kill for.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“Why
should I, who have no need to work for food, spin? ' may be the question
asked. Because I am eating what does not belong to me. I am living on the
spoliation of my countrymen. Trace the source of every coin that finds its way
into your pocket, and you will realise the truth of what I write. Every one
must spin.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
