Occupation: Civil Rights Leader Birth: October 2, 1869 Death: January 30, 1948
Strength of numbers is the delight of the timid. The Valiant in spirit glory in fighting alone..
History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force..
Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues..
The voice of the people may be said to be God's voice, the voice of the Panchayat..
If blood be shed, let it be our own. Let us cultivate the calm courage to die without killing..
Why should men arrogate to themselves the right to regulate female purity?.
The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one..
Untouchability is an error of long standing..
If we had attained the full vision of Truth, we would no longer be seekers, but become one with God, for Truth is God..
Mother cow is in many ways better than the mother who gave us birth..
I have felt that the Gita teaches us that what cannot be followed in day-to-day practice cannot be called religion..
The way of mutual strife and exclusiveness is the only way to perdition and slavery..
Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the J….
Coercion cannot but result in chaos in the end..
Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals..
I know that I can never be alone as God is there with me..
Religious truth, or for that matter any truth, requires a calm and meditative atmosphere for its percolation..
Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice..
Nonviolence, when it becomes active, travels with extraordinary velocity, and then it becomes a miracle..
Nations are not formed in a day, the formation requires years..
The law of love knows no bounds of space or time..