Occupation: Civil Rights Leader Birth: October 2, 1869 Death: January 30, 1948
God does not punish directly. His ways are inscrutable..
God is omnipresent; even a pebble in the Narmada can represent Him and serve as an object of worship..
Everything that we do is insignificant...and...it is very important that we do it!.
Our peaceful non-co-operation must be constructive, non-destructive. Poison should not emerge from the throes of love..
If non-violence is the Law of our being, the future is with Women..
A nation that is capable of limitless sacrifice is capable of rising to limitless heights. The purer the sacrifice the quicker the progress..
It's more important to put the own heart in the prayer than to put other's words with nothing of the own heart..
Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men..
The renunciation of the Gita is the acid test of faith..
A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society..
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion..
No one has the capacity to judge God. We are drops in that limitless ocean of mercy..
Woman is the embodiment of sacrifice and suffering and her advent to public life should, therefore, result in purifying it, in restraining unbridled ….
Satyagraha and civil disobedience and fasts have nothing in common with the use of force, veiled or open..
The music of life is in danger of being lost in the music of the voice..
I believe in advaita, I believe in the essential unity of man and for that matter of all that lives..
If you do nothing there will be no results.
Though we are politically free, we are hardly free from the subtle domination of the West..
Nonviolence is the virtue of the manly. The coward is innocent of it..
Man does not live by bread alone. Many prefer self-respect to food..
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….