Occupation: Civil Rights Leader Birth: October 2, 1869 Death: January 30, 1948
What the Sermon describes in a graphic manner, the Bhagavadgita reduces to a scientific formula..
Make injustice visible..
That which is inherent in man is his virtue..
However virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India..
The still small voice within you must always be the final arbiter when there is a conflict of duty..
One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman..
Ahimsa is nothing if not a well-balanced, exquisite consideration for one's neighbour, and an idle man is wanting in that elementary consideration..
Where my own mission is concerned, my thought is active, and I try to wish everyone well in spite of doubts and mistrust..
People in a democracy should be satisfied with drawing the Government's attention to a mistake, if any..
When you are right,you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry..
The only way Hinduism can convert the whole world to cow-protection is by giving an object-lesson in cow-protection and all it means..
The man who eats to live, who is friends with the five powers - earth, water, ether, sun and air - who is a servant of God, the Creator of all these,….
Nonviolence is an attribute of the Almighty whose ways of fulfilling Himself are inscrutable..
An education which does not teach us to discriminate between good and bad, to assimilate the one and eschew the other, is a misnomer.
A man of faith does not bargain or stipulate with God..
When a slave begins to take pride in his fetters and hugs them like precious ornaments, the triumph of the slave-owner is complete..
Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association..
Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence..
Without real nonviolence, there would be perfect anarchy..
In a society based on nonviolence, the smallest nation will feel as tall as the tallest..
How heavy is the toll of sins and wrong that wealth, power and prestige exact from man..