Occupation: Civil Rights Leader Birth: October 2, 1869 Death: January 30, 1948
It is much more difficult to live for nonviolence than to die for it..
The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing..
When the ego dies, the soul awakes..
Full effort is full victory..
Politics bereft of religion is absolute dirt, ever to be shunned..
The Bhagavadgita is a gospel of non-co-operation between the forces of darkness and those of light..
Non-cooperation is beyond the reach of the bayonet. It has found an abiding place in the Indian heart. Workers like me will go when the hour has stru….
Naked violence repels like the naked skeleton shorn of flesh, blood and the velvety skin..
Earth and heaven are in us.
Throughout the history of mankind there have been murderers and tyrants; and while it may seem momentarily that they have the upper hand, they have a….
My Rama, the Rama of our prayers, is not the historical Rama, the son of Dasharatha, the king of Ayodhya..
I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that viol….
And whilst he may not claim superiority by reason of learning, I myself must not withold that meed of homage that learning, wherever it resides, alwa….
First they ignore you, then they denounce you, and then they say that they knew what you were saying all the time..
The cottage industry of India had to perish in order that Lancashire might flourish..
I do regard spinning and weaving as a necessary part of any national system of education..
Knowledge without devotion will be like a misfire..
That prince is acceptable to me who becomes a prince among his people's servants..
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. Without interrelation with society he cannot ….
Nothing will demoralize the nation so much as that we should learn to despise labour..
What I call the law of satyagraha is to be deduced from an appreciation of duties and rights flowing therefrom..