Occupation: Civil Rights Leader Birth: October 2, 1869 Death: January 30, 1948
Rama Nama should come from the heart. In that event, Rama Nama could become an effective remedy against all ailments. A man who believes in Rama Nama….
Time is wealth, and the Gita says the Great Annihilator annihilates those who waste time..
That economics is untrue which ignores or disregards moral values..
Democracy will break under the strain of apron strings. It can exist only on trust..
Economic equality of my conception does not mean that every one will literally have the same amount..
Swaraj is not a product of excitement or intoxication. Swaraj will be the natural and inevitable result of business like habits..
That we should obey laws whether good or bad is a new-fangled notion. There was no such thing in former days. The people disregarded those laws they ….
Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute, and he knows no law but that of phys….
Where there are millions upon millions of units of idle labour, it is no use thinking of labour-saving devices..
True beauty lies in purity of the heart..
Khadi is the sun of the village solar system..
A mother would never by choice sleep in a wet bed but she would gladly do so in order to spare the dry bed for her child..
Man is the maker of his own destiny, and I therefore ask you to become makers of your own destiny..
India is essentially a karmabhumi (land of duty) in contradistinction to bhogabhumi (land of enjoyment)..
It was not through democratic methods that Britain bagged India..
If you want something done, ask. If you want something done quickly, ask, and then begin counting down from ten with no explanation..
When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand..
The moral to be legitimately drawn from the supreme tragedy of the bomb is that it will not be destroyed by counter bombs even as violence cannot be ….
Freedom of a nation cannot be won by solitary acts of heroism though they may be of the true type, never by heroism so called..
... when all violence subsides in the human heart, the state which remains is love. It is not something we have to acquire; it is always present, and….
The elephant needs a thousand times more food than the ant but that is not an indication of inequality..