Occupation: Civil Rights Leader Birth: October 2, 1869 Death: January 30, 1948
How heavy is the toll of sins and wrong that wealth, power and prestige exact from man..
The Gita is not an aphoristic work, it is a great religious poem..
"All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense..
Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence..
Hinduism has sinned in giving sanction to untouchability..
Satyagraha is an attribute of the spirit within..
Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms..
He who runs may see that opium and such other intoxicants and narcotics stupefy a man's soul and reduce him to a level lower than that of beasts..
The platform of services is as big as the world. It is never overcrowded..
What can be richer and more fruitful than a greater fulfillment of the vow of nonviolence in thought, word and deed or the spread of that spirit?.
True paurusha, true bravery, consists in driving out the brute in us..
I claim to know my millions. All the hours of the day I am with them. They are my first care and God that is to be found in the hearts of the dumb mi….
Man can only describe God in his own poor language..
God is the vital force or spirit which is all-pervading, all-embracing and, therefore, beyond human ken..
Truth and untruth often co-exist; good and evil often are found together.
God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth, and he tries you through and through. And when you find that your faith is failing or your ….
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest..
A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control..
I do not regard capital to be the enemy of labour..
Love in the sense of ahimsa has only a limited number of votaries in the world..
If the circulation of blood theory could not have been discovered without vivisection, the human kind could well have done without it..