Mahatma Gandhi Hands Quotations

Religions are different roads converging on the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal? I believe that all religions of the world are true more or less. I say "more or less" because I believe that everything the human hand touches, by reason of the very fact that human beings are imperfect, becomes imperfect.

People say true friends must always hold hands, but true friends don't need to hold hands because they know the other hand will always be there.

It is a tragedy of the first magnitude that millions of people have ceased to use their hands as hands. Nature has bestowed upon us this great gift which is our hands. If the craze for machinery method continues, it is highly likely that a time will come when we shall be so incapacitated and weak that we shall begin to curse ourselves for having forgotten the use of the living machines given to us by God.

A perfect Muslim is he from whose tongue and hands mankind is safe.

Those who have their hands dyed deep in blood cannot build a nonviolent order for the world.

What the two hands of the labourer can achieve, the capitalist will never get with all his gold and silver.

Unless our hands go hand in hand with our heads, we will be able to do nothing whatsoever.

To gain India's freedom, the capacity for suffering must go hand in hand with the capacity for ceaseless labour.

Boycott brought about anyhow of British cloth cannot yield the same results as such boycott brought about by hand-spinning and khaddar.

If hand-spinning is an effective method of making India self-supporting, it must be made part of the franchise.

Hand-spinning is designed to put millions of rupees in the hands of the poor villagers.

By patriotism I mean the welfare of the whole people, if I secure it at the hands of my opponent, I should bow down my head to him.

Throughout the history of mankind there have been murderers and tyrants; and while it may seem momentarily that they have the upper hand, they have always fallen. Always.

I learnt the lesson on nonviolence from my wife, when I tried to bend her to my will. Her determined resistance to my will on the one hand, and her quiet submission to the suffering my stupidity involved on the other, ultimately made me ashamed of myself and cured me of my stupidity in thinking that I was born to rule over her.

I well remember how the thoughts I had up to the time of my discharge from the jail on every occasion were modified immediately after discharge, and after getting first-hand information myself. Somehow or other the jail atmosphere does not allow you to have all the bearings in your mind.

Literary education must follow the education of the hand -the one gift that distinguishes man from beast.

H. G. Wells was not the only one to mention Churchill and Hitler in the same breath: "Churchill and Hitler are striving to change the nature of their respective countrymen by forcing and hammering violent methods on them. Man may be suppressed in this manner but he cannot be changed. Ahimsa [non-violence in the Hindu tradition], on the other hand, can change human nature and sooner than men like Churchill and Hitler."

You can't shake hands with a closed fist.

May the work of your hands be a sign of gratitude and reverence to the human condition.

I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Eternal and become merely a lump of clay in the Potter's divine hands so that my service may become more certain because uninterrupted by the baser self in me.

I crave to die with my hand at the spinning wheel.

When I don't understand something, I reach up and hold God's hand. And we walk together in silence.

Destruction is not the law of humans. Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him. Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.

The Charkha in the hands of a poor widow brings a paltry price to her, in the hands of Jawaharlal; it is an instrument of India's freedom.

I once Experimented with marijuna, next thing I know I'm waking up with blood on my hands.......and not my own blood.

It is for us to make the effort. The result is always in God's hands.