Indian independence activist and leader who played a key role in the peaceful resistance movement against British colonial rule
God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?
Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.