Mahatma Gandhi Facts Quotations

Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

The central fact of Hinduism is cow protection.

Newspapers should be read for the study of facts. They should not be allowed to kill the habit of independent thinking.

Everything I have personally experienced, and that also has been expressed by the leaders of the great religions points to the fact that a global spirituality already exists and was intrinsically there from the start as God (by whatever name) is one and is indivisible - everywhere outside time and place.

Facts we would always place before our readers, whether they are palatable or not, and it is by placing them constantly before the public in their nakedness that the misunderstanding between the two communities in South Africa can be removed.

My varnashram dharma teaches me that there must be some significance in the fact of my being born in India instead of in Europe.

The fact that mankind persists shows that the cohesive force is greater than the disruptive force, centripetal force greater than centrifugal.

Truth stands for the fact, nonviolence negates the fact.

One thing we have endeavoured to observe most scrupulously, namely, never to depart from the strictest facts and, in dealing with the difficult questions that have arisen during the year, we hope that we have used the utmost moderation possible under the circumstances.

What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.

But the fact that I had learnt to be tolerant to other religions did not mean that I had any living faith in God.

I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no dis-advantage whatever. In fact I can see that, on the contrary, it has been all to my advantage.

In fact, it is more correct to say that Truth is God, than to say that God is Truth.

I am a Hindu by birth. And yet I do not know much of Hinduism, and I know less of other religions. In fact I do not know where I am, and what is and what should be my belief. I intend to make a careful study of my own religion and, as far as I can, of others.

Let us learn from the English rulers the simple fact that the oppressors are blind to the enormity of their own misdeeds.

He who would in his own person test the fact of God's presence can do so by a living faith.

Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience.