Occupation: Civil Rights Leader Birth: October 2, 1869 Death: January 30, 1948
There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent..
It was through the Hindu religion that I learnt to respect Christianity and Islam..
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed..
Nonviolence is not a cloistered virtue, confined only to the rishi and the cave-dweller..
The whole of India was the home of every Indian who considered himself as one and behaved as such, no matter to what faith he belonged..
God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless..
I cannot imagine anything nobler or more national than that for, say, one hour in the day we should all do the labor the poor must do, and thus ident….
If the people resolve and carry out this programme of boycott and Swadeshi, they would not have to wait for Swaraj even for a year..
Surely conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows his creatures' hearts. A conversion without a clean heart is, in my opinion, ….
Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence.
Ahimsa must express itself through acts of selfless service of the masses..
Rama Nama should come from the heart. In that event, Rama Nama could become an effective remedy against all ailments. A man who believes in Rama Nama….
Swaraj is not a product of excitement or intoxication. Swaraj will be the natural and inevitable result of business like habits..
Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth & violence. Even if my belief is a fond delusion, it will be admitted….
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake o….
Men should do their actual living and working in communities small enough to permit of genuine self-government and the assumption of personal respons….
It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us. Thi….
No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation..
Intolerance is a species of violence and therefore against our creed..
A true and nonviolent combination of labour would act like a magnet attracting to it all the needed capital..
Marriage must cease to be a matter of arrangement made by parents for money..