Occupation: Civil Rights Leader Birth: October 2, 1869 Death: January 30, 1948
It is weakness which breeds fear, and fear breeds distrust..
India's way is not Europe's. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages..
Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession..
After long study and experience, I have come to the conclusion that (1) all religions are true; (2) all religions have some error in them; (3) all re….
The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience..
I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice..
No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world..
Keep your values positive, because your values become your destiny..
Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity..
If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has no….
A successful bloody revolution can only mean further misery for the masses..
Lady is the buddy of man, skilled with equivalent mental limit..
Lovers of Swaraj cannot rest till a solution is found which would allay Mussalman apprehensions and yet not endanger Swaraj..
Love is needed to strengthen the weak; love becomes tyrannical when it exacts obedience from an unbeliever..
It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine..
Cow preservation is an article of faith in Hinduism..
Swaraj would be real Swaraj only when there would be no occasion for safeguarding any rights..
Tolerance gives us spiritual insight, which is as far from fanaticism as the north pole is from the south..
The greatest lessons in life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from the grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ig….
You are not going to know the meaning of God or prayer unless you reduce yourself to a cipher..
A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer..