Occupation: Civil Rights Leader Birth: October 2, 1869 Death: January 30, 1948
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..
A small group of determined and like-minded people can change the course of history..
True ahimsa lay in running into the mouth of himsa..
I believe in the absolute oneness of God and, therefore, also of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but one soul. The rays of the sun….
The way to truth lies through ahimsa (nonviolence)..
Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world; but to change ourselves..
Conquer the heart of the enemy with truth and love, not by violence..
Swaraj as conceived by me does not mean the end of kingship..
If hand-spinning is an effective method of making India self-supporting, it must be made part of the franchise..
The method of satyagraha requires that the satyagrahi should never lose hope, so long as there is the slightest ground left for it..