Indian independence activist and leader who played a key role in the peaceful resistance movement against British colonial rule
Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.
No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.
We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.
I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.