Famous quotes by mohandas k. gandhi:
“Reporter: ‘Mr. Gandhi, what do you think of Western civilization?’
Gandhi: ‘I think it would be a very good idea.’”
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948)
“I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.”
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948)
“Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God. I plead not for the suppression of reason, but for a due recognition of that in us which sanctifies reason.”
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948)
“I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.”
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948)
“What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells?”
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948)