Occupation: Civil Rights Leader Birth: October 2, 1869 Death: January 30, 1948
To bear all kinds of tortures without a murmur of resentment is not possible for a human being without the strength that comes from God..
Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face..
The best politics is right action..
A man who behaves like a beast is worse than the beast..
Man cannot be transformed from bad to good overnight..
I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability which is amazing and he seems to be gaining his victories without m….
Domestic matters are trifles for us. But they occupy the principal part of my life. They teach me to know my limitations..
Man is born of woman, he is flesh of her flesh and bone of her bone..
[I]t seems to me as clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime..
Every man has an equal right to the necessaries of life even as birds and beasts have..
The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies..
Ramanama can be used only for a good, never for an evil end, or else thieves and robbers would be the greatest devotees..
Real non-co-operation is non-co-operation with evil and not with the evil-doer..
Think for tomorrow but act for today..
There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come by mere academic arg….
I was a coward. I used to be haunted by the fear of thieves, ghosts and serpents. I did not dare to stir out of doors at night. Darkness was a terror….
Truth and nonviolence demand that no human being may debar himself from serving any other human being, no matter how sinful he may be..
Always believe in your dreams, because if you don't, you'll still have hope..
The Law which governs all life is God..
Religion to be true must satisfy what may be termed humanitarian economics, that is, where the income and the expenditure balance each other..
In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed..