Occupation: Civil Rights Leader Birth: October 2, 1869 Death: January 30, 1948
I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following..
My faith in non-co-operation is as bright as ever..
What faith can you place in a general or a soldier who lacks resolution and determination, who says, 'I shall keep guard as long as I can'?.
You are not going to know the meaning of God or prayer unless you reduce yourself to a cipher..
As in laws or in war, the longest purse finally wins..
A living faith in God means acceptance of the brotherhood of mankind..
Nonviolence is the means, the end for everyone is complete independence..
I am a Hindu because it is Hinduism which makes the world worth living. I am a Hindu hence I Love not only human beings, but all living beings..
Nonviolence is a universal law acting under all circumstances..
Just think out for yourselves, if a man who was good yesterday has become bad after having come in contact with me, is he responsible that he has det….
Hatred can be overcome only by love..
I believe in the absolute oneness of God and, therefore, also of humanity. I have always believed God to be without form. What I did hear was like a ….
A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer..
The willing sacrifice of the innocents is the most powerful retort to insolent tyranny that has yet to be conceived by God or man..
The idol in the temple is not God. But since God resides in every atom, He resides in that idol too..
Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent..
Is it not possible for us all to realize that the masses will never mount to freedom through murder?.
Literacy is not the end of education nor even the beginning..
It amazes me to find an intelligent person who fights against something which he does not at all believe exists..
I do not like the word tolerance, but could not think of a better one. Tolerance implies a gratuitous assumption of the inferiority of other faiths t….
God will cease to be God, if he brought into being a single person with the hall-mark of inferiority..