Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Today

• My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism... true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Freedom, Opportunity

• If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the present

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Motivational, Yesterday, Worry

• I have so much to accomplish today that I must meditate for two hours instead of one.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Two, Today, Hours

• I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Leadership, Time

• Stoning prophets and erecting churches to their memory afterwards has been the way of the world through the ages. Today we worship Christ, but the Christ in the flesh we crucified.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Friday, Jesus, Memories

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “Collected Works”

• Your future depends on what you do today.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Carpe Diem, Today, Future Self

• Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hypocrite, Hypocrisy, Democracy

  Mahatma Gandhi (1974). “Collected Works”

• If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Snakes, Political, Trying

  Mahatma Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Civilization, Politics and Religion”, Clarendon Press

• Celebration of Independence Day with great pomp and show was quite appropriate when we were fighting for independence which we had neither seen nor handled. Now we have handled it and we seem to be disillusioned. At least - I am, even if you are not. What are we celebrating today? Surely, not our disillusionment.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, Hypocrisy, Independence

• If you give me rice, I'll eat today; if you teach me how to grow rice, I'll eat every day.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Teacher, Knowledge, Giving

• Hinduism is a relentless pursuit of Truth. "Truth is God" and if today it has become moribund, inactive, irresponsive to growth, it is because we are fatigued; and as soon as the fatigue is over, Hinduism will burst upon the world with a brilliance perhaps unknown before.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Growth, World, Today

• We no longer have a choice between violence and non-violence. The choice of today stands between nonviolence or non-existence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Choices, Today, Violence

• It is a tragedy that religion for us means, today, nothing more than restrictions on food and drink, nothing more than adherence to absence of superiority and inferiority.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Religion, Tragedy

• My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, Today, Language

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

• Swaraj does not depend on jail going. If it did, there are thousands of prisoners in jail today. It depends on everyone doing his or her own task.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Jail, Doe, Tasks

  Mahatma Gandhi (1975). “Collected Works”

• If we will take care of today, God will take care of the morrow.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Care, Today

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi (1961). “Truth Called Them Differently: (Tagore-Gandhi Controversy)”

• Swaraj, without any qualifying clause, includes that which is better than the best one can conceive or have today.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Today, Clauses, Qualifying

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.151, Oxford University Press

• It is impossible that God, who is the God of Justice, could have made the distinctions that men observe today in the name of religion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Men, Names

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “All Religions are True”

• Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Cities, Crumbling, Village

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.103, Rajpal & Sons

• The sky may be overcast today with clouds, but a fervent prayer to God is enough to dispel them.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Prayer, Clouds

  Mahatma Gandhi (1975). “Collected Works”

• Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realise what a tremendous advantage she has over man.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Women, Sacrifice, Self

  Mahatma Gandhi (1988). “Gandhi on Women: Collection of Mahatma Gandhi's Writings and Speeches on Women”

• If as a member of a slave nation I could deliver the suppressed classes from their slavery without freeing myself from my own, I would do so today. But it is an impossible task.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Class, India, Tasks

  Mahatma Gandhi (2014). “Freedom's Battle: Being a Comprehensive Collection of Writings and Speeches on the Present Situation”, p.113, The Floating Press

• The greatest menace to the world today is the growing, exploiting, irresponsible imperialism.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  World, Growing, Today

  Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Communal Unity”

• The fragrance of nonviolence was never sweeter than it was today amidst the stink of violence of the most cowardly type that was being displayed in the cities of India.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Cities, India, Today

  Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Communal Unity”

• Newspapers today have almost replaced the Bible, the Koran, the Gita and other religious scriptures.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religious, Gita, Today

  Mahatma Gandhi, U. R. Rao (1963). “The Way to Communal Harmony”, Ahmedabad, [India] : Navajivan Publishing House

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