Birth: September 27, 1907 Death: March 23, 1931
...by crushing individuals, they cannot kill ideas..
The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salvation here after, but to make the best use of it h….
Life is lived on its ownother's shoulders are used only at the time of funeral..
For us, compromise never means surrender, but a step forward and some rest. That is all and nothing else..
Lovers, Lunatics and poets are made of same stuff..
The people generally get accustomed to the established order of things and begin to tremble at the very idea of a change. It is this lethargical spir….
For mass struggles, nonviolence is essential..
We become pitiable and ridiculous when we imbibe an unreasoned mysticism in our life without any natural or substantial basis. People like us, who ar….
It is easy to kill individuals but you cannot kill the ideas..
Non-violence is backed by the theory of soul-force in which suffering is courted in the hope of ultimately winning over the opponent. But what happen….
If the deaf are to hear, the sound has to be very loud. When we dropped the bomb, it was not our intention to kill anybody. We have bombed the Britis….
The bomb was necessary to awaken England from her dreams. We dropped the bomb on the floor of the assembly chamber to register our protest on behalf ….
...as I reject the old time beliefs, it is not a matter of countering belief with belief, rather I can challenge the efficacy of old beliefs with sou….
Man acts only when he is sure of the justness of his action, as we threw the bomb in the Legislative Assembly.
Revolution is an inalienable right of mankind. Freedom is an imperishable birth right of all. Labor is the real sustainer of society, the sovereignty….
The elimination of force at all costs is Utopian and the new movement which has arisen in the country and of whose dawn we have given a warning is in….