Occupation: Civil Rights Leader Birth: October 2, 1869 Death: January 30, 1948
An awakened people who rely upon their nonviolent strength are independent in the face of any conceivable combination of the armed powers..
I own no enemy on earth. That is my creed..
My purpose is to describe experiments in the science ofsatyagraha and not at all to describe how good I am..
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems..
There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; f….
Behaviour is the mirror in which we can display our image..
Government of the people by the people and for the people cannot be conducted at the bidding of one man, however great he may be..
Nobody can hurt me without my permission..
For a satyagrahi brigade only those are eligible who believe in ahimsa and satya..
A person who has truly realized the principle of nonviolence has the God given strength for his weapon, and the world has not yet known anything that….
That which looks for mercy from an opponent is not non-violence..
Moral restrictions tend to become lax in a foreign country, since the fear of social opinion disappears..
Religion is not like a house or a cloak which can be changed at will..
Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you..
I may be a despicable person, but when Truth speaks through me I am invincible..
The message of the Gita is to be found in the second chapter of the Gita where Lord Krishna speaks of the balanced state of mind, of mental equipoise..
The states can make the finest contribution to the building of India's future independence if they set the right example in their own territories..
It is not part of religion to breed buffaloes or, for that matter, cows..
The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust..
It dawned upon me that fasting could be made as powerful a weapon of indulgence as of restraint.
Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas the former ru….