Occupation: Civil Rights Leader Birth: October 2, 1869 Death: January 30, 1948
The Indian struggle is not anti-British, it is anti-exploitation, anti-foreign rule, not anti-foreigners..
This campaign of non-cooperation has no reference to diplomacy, secret or open. The only diplomacy it admits of is the statement and pursuance of tru….
A rabbit that runs away from the bull-terrier is not particularly non-violent..
For me to dominate the Congress in spite of these fundamental differences is almost a species of violence which I must refrain from..
Nothing is impossible for pure love..
Begin your day with prayer, and make it so soulful that it may remain with you until the evening..
I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You wi….
I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence..
Ahimsa is my God, and Truth is my God..
Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together..
I have no other wish in this world but to find light and joy and peace through Hinduism..
I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by ….
You can't shake hands with a closed fist..
Nonviolence, in its dynamic condition means conscious suffering..
Running away for fear of death, leaving one's dear ones, temples or music to take care of themselves, is irreligion; it is cowardice..
Faith is like the Himalaya mountains which cannot possibly change..
By using violence to subjugate one another we are using violence against our own souls..
Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason..
There is a vital connection between satyagraha and charkha, and the more I find that belief challenged, the more I am confirmed in it..
Non-violence is the article of faith..
What may appear as truth to one person will often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry the seeker. When there is honest effor….