Occupation: Civil Rights Leader Birth: October 2, 1869 Death: January 30, 1948
India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body..
A national spirit is necessary for national existence. A flag is a material aid to the development of such a spirit..
Violent nationalism, otherwise known as imperialism, is a curse..
You cannot succeed in one department of life while cheating on another, life is an indivisible whole..
Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed..
Ours has not been unadulterated nonviolence in thought, word and deed..
There can be no nonviolence offered by the militarily strong..
The spinning wheel is a symbol of nonviolence for me..
People cannot hurt you without your permission..
Nonviolence does not require any outside or outward training..
The stability of the State depends upon the readiness of every citizen to subordinate his rights to those of the rest..
I believe it to be perfectly possible for an individual to adopt the way of life of the future. . . without having to wait for others to do so..
There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good..
Life becomes livable only to the extent that death is treated as a friend, never as an enemy..
Let the villages of the future live in our imagination, so that we might one day come to live in them!.
If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be.
Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger... . Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice..
If you are left with only one piece of homespun,wear it with dignity.
Could there be a greater proof of our cowardice than fighting amongst ourselves?.
If one takes care of the means, the end will take care of itself..
Continue to grow and evolve..