Occupation: Civil Rights Leader Birth: October 2, 1869 Death: January 30, 1948
The spinning wheel is the auspicious symbol of sharir yajna, body labour..
Man does not live by bread alone. Many prefer self-respect to food..
I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the culture of all lands to be blown about my house as freel….
The message of khaddar can penetrate to the remotest villages if we only will that it shall be so..
The measure of a society can be how well its people treat its animals.
We do not know the laws of God, nor their working..
Man must choose either of the two courses, the upward or the downward; but as he has the brute in him, he will more easily choose the downward course….
I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings..
The instruments for the quest for Truth are as simple as they are difficult..
It is a travesty of true religion to consider one's own religion as superior and other's as inferior..
Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness..
If there ever is to be a republic of every village in India, then I claim verity for my picture in which the last is equal to the first or, in other ….
If Euclid's point, though incapable of being drawn by any human agency, has an imperishable value, my picture has its own for mankind to live..
If non-violence is the Law of our being, the future is with Women..
Spiritually, compulsory disarmament has made us unmanly, and the presence of an alien army of occupation, employed with deadly effect to crush in us ….
Though we are politically free, we are hardly free from the subtle domination of the West..
It's more important to put the own heart in the prayer than to put other's words with nothing of the own heart..
The music of life is in danger of being lost in the music of the voice..
A fear-stricken person can never know God, and one who knows God will never fear a mortal man..
If you do nothing there will be no results.
The renunciation of the Gita is the acid test of faith..