Occupation: Civil Rights Leader Birth: October 2, 1869 Death: January 30, 1948
We don't use guns because we don't have guns.
Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared..
It is nonviolent non-co-operation which evokes the highest spirit of self-sacrifice that will wean one from the error of one's ways..
True happiness brings more richness than all the money in the world..
Close the day with prayer so that you may have a peaceful night free from dreams and nightmares..
Homeopathy cures a larger percentage of cases than any other form of treatment and is beyond doubt safer and more economical..
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to p….
Liberty never meant the license to do anything at will..
For me, humanitarian service, or rather service of all that lives, is religion. And I draw no distinction between such religion and politics..
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread..
All satyagraha and fasting is a species of tyaga. It depends for its effects upon an expression of wholesome public opinion shorn of all bitterness..
I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a sca….
More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it..
Hindu-Muslim unity, khaddar and removal of untouchability are to me the foundation of Swaraj..
It is beyond my power to induce in you a belief in God. There are certain things which are self proved and certain which are not proved at all..
The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa..
If I am true to myself, if I am true to mankind, if I am true to humanity, I must understand all the faults that human flesh is heir to..
I learned from Hussain how to be wronged and be a winner, I learnt from Hussain how to attain victory while being oppressed..
The end of nonviolent 'war' is always an agreement, never dictation, much less humiliation of the opponent..
Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life..
It is my firm faith that man is by nature going higher..