Occupation: Civil Rights Leader Birth: October 2, 1869 Death: January 30, 1948
Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment..
If you want a change in the world, be the change.
Swaraj is not meant for cowards, but for those who would mount smilingly to the gallows and refuse even to allow their eyes to be bandaged..
The purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself. We cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that lives. The sum-total of tha….
Freedom received though the efforts of others, however benevolent, cannot be retained when such effort is withdrawn..
Love and ahimsa are matchless in their effect..
For the courage of self-sacrifice, woman is any time superior to man, as I believe man is to woman for the courage of the brute..
Nonviolence is an active force of the highest order. It is soul force or the power of the godhead within us..
A man who throws himself on God ceases to fear man.
To know music is to transfer it to life..
God resides in every human form, indeed in every particle of His creations, in everything that is on his earth..
One may detest the wickedness of a brother without hating him..
Through Khadi we teach the people the art of civil obedience to an institution which they have built up for themselves..
Eye for eye and the world will go blind..
Devotion to Truth is the sole justification for our existence..
Swaraj, without any qualifying clause, includes that which is better than the best one can conceive or have today..
I travel third-class because there is no fouth-class..
No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred..
I had learnt at the onset not to carry on public work with borrowed money..
Intolerance, discourtesy and harshness..... are taboo in all good society and are surely contrary to the spirit of democracy..
President means chief servant.