"I hold it a blasphemy to say that the Creator resides in a temple from which a particular class of His devotees sharing faith in it are excluded."
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"I hold it a blasphemy to say that the Creator resides in a temple from which a particular class of His devotees sharing faith in it are excluded."
"I believe that the yarn we spin is capable of mending the broken warp and woof of our life!"
"Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good."
"Civilization is the encouragement of differences."
"There is no love where there is no will"
"Love transcends all animosity and is never partial."
"I realized the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. The lesson was so indelibly burnt into me that a large part of my time during the twenty years of my practice as a lawyer was occupied in bringing about private compromises of hundreds of cases. I lost nothing thereby -- not even money, certainly not my soul."
"If love wasn't the law of life, life would not have persisted in the midst of death."
"Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man."
"So far as I can see the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained mankind for ages."
"A pacifism which can see the cruelties only of occasional military warfare and is blind to the continuous cruelties of our social system is worthless."
"The satyagrahi should not have any hatred in his heart against the opponent."
"We have to tackle the triple malady which holds our villages fast in its grip; want of corporate sanitation, deficient diet and inertia."
"True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it."
"Khadi mentality means decentralization of the production and distribution of the necessaries of life."
"Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her."
"I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world."
"I believe that there is no prayer without fasting, and there is no real fast without prayer."
"All good thoughts and ideas mean nothing without action"
"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom."