Occupation: Civil Rights Leader Birth: October 2, 1869 Death: January 30, 1948
I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him. I am prepared to sacrifice the things dearest to me in pursuit of ….
Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew..
My varnashram dharma teaches me that there must be some significance in the fact of my being born in India instead of in Europe..
The end is inherent in the means..
The British Government in India constitutes a struggle between modern civilization, which is the Kingdom of Satan, and the ancient civilization, whic….
Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison..
In the case of the Indian villager, an age-old culture is hidden under entrustment of crudeness..
Nonviolent non-co-operation, I am convinced, is a sacred duty at times..
A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat..
If that is the law of life we must work it out in daily exisitance. Wherever there are wars, wherever we are confronted with an opponent, conquer by ….
The Swaraj of my dream recognizes no race or religious distinctions..
Human society is a ceaseless growth, and unfoldment in terms of spirituality..
It is necessary first to purify the drunken and dissolute worshippers in charge of some of these temples..
Cow-slaughter can never be stopped by law..
My Gita tells me that evil can never result from a good action..
At the individual level Swaraj is vitally connected with the capacity for dispassionate self-assessment , ceaseless self purification and growing sel….
The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing..
You may pluck out my eyes, but that cannot kill me. You may chop off my nose, but that will not kill me. But blast my belief in God, and I am dead..
Nonviolence abhors fear and therefore, secrecy..
In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place..
It is a crime and a sin to regard a person as untouchable because he is born in a particular community..