Mahatma Gandhi Should Quotations

Nature Cure is so simple easy and cheap.....this system of treatment should be used.

The process of learning should be as far as possible a pleasurable one and not laborious

The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust.

That we should obey laws whether good or bad is a new-fangled notion. There was no such thing in former days. The people disregarded those laws they did not like and suffered the penalties for their breach.

Nothing once begun should be abandoned, unless it is proved to be morally wrong.

Hitler killed five million Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher's knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs. As it is, they succumbed anyway in their millions.

I understood . . . that those who desired salvation should act like the trustee who, though having control over great possessions, regards not an iota of them as his own.

We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings.

Only this much I knew - that under ideal conditions, true education could be imparted only by the parents, and that then there should be the minimum of outside help.

Whilst power, superimposed, always needs the help of the police and the military, power generated from within should have little or no use of them.

The sole aim of journalism should be service.

Under ideal conditions, the barrister and the bhangi (sweeper) should both get the same payment.

Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation.

Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.

If I had to face only the Sermon on the Mount and my own interpretation of it, I should not hesitate to say, 'O yes, I am a Christian.'

A genuine satyagraha should never excite contempt in the opponent even when it fails to command regard or respect.

Religion should be dearer than life itself.

Prayer has been the saviour of my life. Without it I should have been a lunatic long ago.

Every single act of one who would lead a life of purity should be in the nature of yajna.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

Decency requires that when a programme is approved by the majority, all should carry it out faithfully.

A satyagrahi should have a living faith in God.

True ahimsa should wear a smile even on a deathbed brought about by an assailant. It is only with that ahimsa that we can befriend our opponents and win their love.

My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all-embracing and I should reject that patriotism which sought to mount the distress or exploitation of other nationalities.

Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.

A full and candid admission of one's mistakes should make proof against its repetition.

If we have the khadi spirit in us, then we should surround ourselves with simplicity in every walk of life.

Nothing will demoralize the nation so much as that we should learn to despise labour.

Each and every one of you should consider himself to be a trustee for the welfare of the rest of his fellow labourers and not be self-seeking.

Today I know that physical training should have as much place in the curriculum as mental training.