Mahatma Gandhi Matter Quotations

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

People engaged in a war do not lose temper over matters which affect the fortunes of war.

Marriage must cease to be a matter of arrangement made by parents for money.

The whole of India was the home of every Indian who considered himself as one and behaved as such, no matter to what faith he belonged.

Domestic matters are trifles for us. But they occupy the principal part of my life. They teach me to know my limitations.

Non-co-operation enables us to show that in everything that matters we can be independent of the Government.

If people knew the working of the law of truth and nonviolence, then they would themselves regulate the matter of its shortage.

To practice nonviolence in mundane matters is to know its true value.

It is not part of religion to breed buffaloes or, for that matter, cows.

'Physician, heal thyself' is more true in matters religious than mundane.

My religion is a matter solely between my Maker and myself.

Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.

Let no one charge me with ever having abused or encouraged weakness or surrendered on matters of principle. But I have said, as I say again, that every trifle must not be dignified into a principle.

No matter how explicit the pledge, people will turn and twist the text to suit their own purpose

No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred.

Strictly speaking, no activity and no industry is possible without a certain amount of violence, no matter how little. Even the very process of living is impossible without a certain amount of violence. What we have to do is to minimize it to the greatest extent possible.

My personal religion enables me to serve my countrymen without hurting the English or, for that matter, anybody else.

No matter what the cause was and wherever it was, Indian governments must never requisition the services of British soldiers to deal with civil disturbances.

That I want to destroy British imperialism is another matter, but I want to do so by converting those who are associated with it.

My fast is a matter between God and myself.

Religion is entirely a personal matter. Each one could approach his Creator as he liked.

Truth and nonviolence demand that no human being may debar himself from serving any other human being, no matter how sinful he may be.

Ahimsa is not a matter of mere dietetics: it transcends it.