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Gandhi: An Autobiography QUOTES

1 " What barrier is there that love cannot break? "

― Mahatma Gandhi , Gandhi: An Autobiography

2 " The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth. "

― Mahatma Gandhi , Gandhi: An Autobiography

3 " When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. 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. "

― Mahatma Gandhi , Gandhi: An Autobiography

4 " Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always. "

― Mahatma Gandhi , Gandhi: An Autobiography

5 " I realized that it was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it. And since then, whenever I have heard of someone threatening to commit suicide, it has had little or no effect on me. "

― Mahatma Gandhi , Gandhi: An Autobiography

6 " Truthis like a vast tree, which yields more and more fruit, the more you nurture it "

― Mahatma Gandhi , Gandhi: An Autobiography

7 " A true Brahmachari will not even dream of satisfying the fleshly appetite "

― Mahatma Gandhi , Gandhi: An Autobiography

8 " I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher "

― Mahatma Gandhi , Gandhi: An Autobiography

9 " It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners. "

― Mahatma Gandhi , Gandhi: An Autobiography

10 " In the very first month of Indian Opinion, I realized that the sole aim of journalism should be service. The newspaper press is a great power, but just as an unchained torrent of water submerges whole countrysides and devastates crops, even so an uncontrolled pen serves but to destroy. If the control is from without, it proves more poisonous than want of control. It can be profitable only when exercised from within. If this line of reasoning is correct, how many of the journals in the world would stand the test? But who would stop those that are useless? And who should be the judge? The useful and the useless must, like good and evil generally, go on together, and man must make his choice. "

― Mahatma Gandhi , Gandhi: An Autobiography

11 " While in Bombay, I began, on one hand, my study of Indian law and, on the other, my experiments in dietetics in which Virchand Gandhi, a friend, joined me. My brother, for his part was trying his best to get me briefs. The study of India law was a tedious business. The Civil Procedure Code I could in no way get on with. Not so however, with the Evidence Act. Virchand Gandhi was reading for the Solicitor's Examination and would tell me all sorts of stories about Barristers and Vakils. "

― Mahatma Gandhi , Gandhi: An Autobiography

12 " I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption. "

― Mahatma Gandhi , Gandhi: An Autobiography

13 " It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings. "

― Mahatma Gandhi , Gandhi: An Autobiography

14 " Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of non­resistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in self­suffering. "

― Mahatma Gandhi , Gandhi: An Autobiography

15 " A Satyagrahi obeys the laws of society intelligently and of his own free will, because he considers it to be his sacred duty to do so. It is only when a person has thus obeyed the laws of society scrupulously that he is in a position to judge as to which particular rules are good and just and which unjust and iniquitous. Only then does the right accrue to him of the civil disobedience of certain laws in well defined circumstances. "

― Mahatma Gandhi , Gandhi: An Autobiography

16 " But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep. "

― Mahatma Gandhi , Gandhi: An Autobiography

17 " Men often become what they believe themselves to be.If I believe I cannot do something,it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can , then I acquire the ability to do it even If I didn't have it in the beginning". "

― Mahatma Gandhi , Gandhi: An Autobiography

18 " Truth has drawn me into the field of politics; and I can say without the slightest hesitation, and yet in all humility, that those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means. "

― Mahatma Gandhi , Gandhi: An Autobiography

19 " It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honored by the humiliation of their fellow beings. "

― Mahatma Gandhi , Gandhi: An Autobiography

20 " Hate the sin and not the sinner is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world... It is quite proper to resist and attack a system, but to resist and attack its author is tantamount to resisting and attacking oneself. for we are all tarred with the same brush, and are children of one and the same Creator, and as such the divine powers within us are infinite. To slight a single human being is to slight those divine powers, and thus to harm not only that being but with him the whole world. "

― Mahatma Gandhi , Gandhi: An Autobiography