Occupation: Civil Rights Leader Birth: October 2, 1869 Death: January 30, 1948
When you surrender completely to God, as the only truth worth having, you find yourself in service of all that exists. It becomes your joy and recrea….
I would like to say that that even the teachings of the Koran cannot be exempted from criticism..
There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent..
If I preach against the modern artificial life of sensual enjoyment, and ask men and women to go back to the simple life epitomized in the charkha, I….
My nonviolence is made of stern stuff. It is firmer than the firmest metal known to scientists..
Live like Jesus did, and the world will listen..
A love that is based on the goodness of those whom you love is a mercenary affair..
Khaddar was conceived with a much more ambitious object, that is, to make our villages starvation-proof..
Ahimsa in theory no one knows. It is as indefinable as God..
Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane..
The whole world is in the throes of a new birth. Anything done for a temporary gain would be tantamount to an abortion..
To a starving man, God can only appear in the form of bread..
One's everyday life is never capable of being separated from his spiritual being..
Shraddha means self-confidence and self-confidence means faith in God..
The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer..
My life is dedicated to the service of Indians through the religion of nonviolence which I believe to be the root of Hinduism..
What we can do, we will try to do..
Whomsoever you follow, howsoever great, see to it that you follow the spirit of the master and not imitate him mechanically..
Satyagraha is a purely spiritual weapon..
Men in prison are "civilly dead" and have no claim to any say in policy..
A perfect mind comes from a perfect heart, not the heart known by a doctor's stethoscope but the heart which is the seat of God..