Occupation: Civil Rights Leader Birth: October 2, 1869 Death: January 30, 1948
With me the connection between the cosmic phenomena and human behaviour is a living faith that draws me nearer to God, humbles me and makes me readie….
Prayer needs no speech. It is in itself independent of any sensuous effort. But it must be combined with the utmost humility..
India unarmed would not require to be destroyed through poison gas or bombardment..
I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to….
For India to enter into the race for armaments is to court suicide..
Today, as it was 2,000 years ago, the Kingdom of God is within each of us. It is not within a church, a temple, a mosque or synagogue..
Live simply so that others may simply live..
Who is there in the world who can insult the God in the image?.
The primary object of non-co-operation is nowhere stated to be paralysis of the Government. The primary object is self-purification..
By patriotism I mean the welfare of the whole people, if I secure it at the hands of my opponent, I should bow down my head to him..
My optimism rests on my belief in the infinite possibilities of the individual to develop nonviolence. . . . In a gentle way you can shake the world..
A full and candid admission of one's mistakes should make proof against its repetition..
Islam stands for the unity and brotherhood of mankind, and not for disrupting the oneness of the human family..
You can judge a society by the way it treats it's animals.
Ahimsa and Truth are my two lungs. I cannot live without them..
Ahimsa and Truth are so intertwined that it is practically impossible to disentangle and separate them..
In the secret of my heart I am in perpetual quarrel with God that He should allow such things [as the war] to go on. My non-violence seems almost imp….
I am wedded to India because I owe my all to her..
If you Christians acted more like your Christ, the world would be a better place..
The Divine Music is incessantly ringing within all of us, but the loud senses drown the delicate Music, which is unlike and infinitely superior to an….
A religion cannot be sustained by the number of its lip-followers denying in their lives its tenets..