Occupation: Civil Rights Leader Birth: October 2, 1869 Death: January 30, 1948
I must fight unto the death the unholy attempt to impose British methods and British institutions on India..
Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before ….
Seeing God face to face is to feel that He is enthroned in our hearts even as a child feels a mother's affection without needing any demonstration..
Rama, Allah and God are to me convertible terms..
A faith gained in strength only when people were willing to lay down their lives for it..
I condemn, for all climes and for all times, secret murders and unfair methods even for a fair cause..
In this instance of the fire-arms, the Asiatic has been most improperly bracketed with the native. The British Indian does not need any such restrict….
Healthy and nourishing food was the only alpha and omega of rural economy..
Democracy demands patient instruction on it before legislation..
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul..
An error can never become true however many times you repeat it. The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it..
Total nonviolent non-cooperation has no place in popular Raj, whatever its level may be..
The purer I try to become, the nearer I feel to be to God..
The socialistic conception of the West was born in an environment reeking with violence..
The pure love of one soul can offset the hatred of millions..
To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception..
Roving dogs do not indicate the civilisation or compassion of the society. They betray on the country the ignorance and lethargy of its members..
For a fallen India to aspire to move the world and protect the weaker races is seemingly an impertinence..
God speaks to us every day only we don't know how to listen..
It is no religion to have for one's wife a girl who is fit only to sit in one's lap, it is the height of irreligion..
A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal..