Occupation: Civil Rights Leader Birth: October 2, 1869 Death: January 30, 1948
When freedom is in jeopardy, non-co-operation may be a duty and prison may be a palace..
It is the best thing to blame ourselves when people cannot get on well with us. Boundless charity necessarily includes all or it ceases to be boundle….
Our existence as embodied beings is purely momentary; what are a hundred years in eternity? But if we shatter the chains of egotism, and melt into th….
Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain..
It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh..
To see farther, you must climb higher..
Hinduism is like the Ganga, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga it is beneficent….
What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another..
Self-suppression is often necessary in the interest of truth and nonviolence..
The taking of vows that are not feasible or that are beyond one's capacity would betray thoughtlessness and want of balance..
Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment..
Violence can only be effectively met by nonviolence. This is an old established truth..
God has been described by all the scriptures of the world as protector and saviour of the sinner..
No one can dominate a population of 80,000,000..
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another..
Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all..
Truth (satya) is positive, nonviolence is negative..
Non-co-operation enables us to show that in everything that matters we can be independent of the Government..
No man has ever been able to describe God fully. The same holds true of ahimsa..
I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we….
Where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul..