Occupation: Civil Rights Leader Birth: October 2, 1869 Death: January 30, 1948
What is it but my ahimsa that draws thousands of women to me in fearless confidence?.
God has no religion..
A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who….
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being..
A fast to be true must be accompanied by a readiness to receive pure thoughts and determination to resist all Satan's temptations..
I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such thing….
That which you look upon as your own you may keep only so long as the world allows you to own it..
I am just not thinking of India's deliverance. It will come, but will it be worth if England and France fall, or if they come out victorious over Ger….
The path is the goal..
Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been..
Nonviolent non-co-operation with evil means co-operation with all that is good..
The sole aim of journalism should be service..
There are sufficient resources on this planet to answer the needs of all, but not enough to satisfy everyone's greed..
Your life is your message..
Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people..
However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes..
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time th….
There is only one God for us all, whether we find him through the Koran, the Zend-Avesta, The Tolmud, or the Gita..
Truth is the first thing to be sought for, and Beauty and Goodness will then be added unto you..
Nonviolence to be worth anything has to work in the face of hostile forces..
If my nonviolence is to be contagious and infectious, I must acquire greater control over my thoughts..