Occupation: Civil Rights Leader Birth: October 2, 1869 Death: January 30, 1948
I think it would be a good idea..
There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence..
Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of nonresistance to ev….
Blaming the wolf would not help the sheep much. The sheep must learn not to fall in the clutches of the wolf..
I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily want….
Even the most sublime ideas sound ridiculous if heard too often. Be the change that you want to see in the world..
All have not the same capacity. I would allow a man of intellect to earn more, I would not cramp his talent..
Ravana was a rakshasa but this rakshasi of untouchability is even more terrible than Ravana..
No nation keeps another in subjection without herself turning into a subject nation..
The turning of the charkha in a lifeless way will be like the turning of the beads of the rosary with a wandering mind turned away from God..
Cowardice is not a sign of belief in God..
The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular..
If the Commander-in-Chief will look beyond the defence forces, he will discover that the real India is not military but peace-loving..
A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. ….
Destruction of the churches and the like is not the way to Swaraj as defined by the Congress..
The moment the cultivators of the soil realize their power, the evil of Zamindari will be sterilized..
Today I know that physical training should have as much place in the curriculum as mental training..
What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule..
He who has a living faith in God will not do evil deeds with name of God on his lips..
With every true friendship we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests. Thought by thought and act by act, with ….
I have recognized that the nation has the right, if it so wills, to vindicate her freedom even by actual violence..