Occupation: Civil Rights Leader Birth: October 2, 1869 Death: January 30, 1948
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….
Literary education must follow the education of the hand -the one gift that distinguishes man from beast..
For me, Rama and Rahim are one and the same deity..
India as a nation can live and die only for the spinning wheel..
Forgive and forget, but never forget to forgive. You may find a happier heart is the key to a happier life..
Many an individual has turned from the mean, personal, acquisitive point of view to one that sees society as a whole and works for its benefit. If th….
None, while in flesh, can be entirely free from himsa, because one never completely renounces the will to live..
Journalism should never be prostituted for selfish ends or for the sake of merely earning a livelihood or, worse still, for amassing money..
I do not want India to rise on the ruin of other nations..
If I had to face only the Sermon on the Mount and my own interpretation of it, I should not hesitate to say, 'O yes, I am a Christian.'.
The seeker is at liberty to extract from this treasure any meaning he likes, so as to enable him to enforce in his life the central teaching..
No one can ride on the back of a man unless it is bent..