My Life is My Message

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.

Truthis like a vast tree, which yields more and more fruit, the more you nurture it

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can...

I may have become Christian, were it not for Christians.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man’s injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant...

There are Seven Deadly Social Sins:Politics without principle.Wealth without work.Commerce without morality.Pleasure without conscience.Education without character.Science without humility.Worship without sacrifice.

Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.

Three-fourths of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world will disappear if we step into the shoes of our adversaries and understand their standpoint.

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

No hay caminos para la paz; la paz es el camino.

Gracias a que se mantienen unidas y se mueven de manera conjunta milloners de gotas forman el mar, lo mismo debería ocurrir con los seres humanos

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

A true Brahmachari will not even dream of satisfying the fleshly appetite

Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.

Violence begins with the fork.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I...

The inner voice is something which cannot be described in words. But sometimes we have a positive feeling that something in us prompts us to do a certain thing. The time when I learnt to...

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

In the very first month of Indian Opinion, I realized that the sole aim of journalism should be service. The newspaper press is a great power, but just as an unchained torrent of water submerges...

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by...

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of Hussein, the scrupulous regard for...

Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers.

What barrier is there that love cannot break?

It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

Stoning prophets and erecting churches to their memory afterwards has been the way of the world through the ages. Today we worship Christ, but the Christ in the flesh we crucified.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them, and while I hold by my own religion, I should hold other religions...

The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles.”(Young India, 22 October 1925)

If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors.

True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the ‘still small voice’ within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have...

All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.

Good travels at a snail’s pace. Those who want to do good are not selfish, they are not in a hurry, they know that to impregnate people with good requires a long time.

There is no such thing as ‘too insane’ unless others turn up dead due to your actions.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one...

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.