370 quotes found
“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.”
“I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.”
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”
“Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.”
“The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.”
“I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.”
“The environmental problems of developing countries are not the side effects of excessive industrialisation but reflect the inadequacy of development.”
“Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.”
“Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.”
“Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?”
“Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.”
“In more ancient times the life was simpler, but now the discovery of all these different medicines for curing dyspepsia shows that people are suffering from this disease. In this country we know th...”
“Truth is like a vast tree which yields more and more fruit the more you nurture it. The deeper the search in the mind of truth, the richer the discovery of the gems buried there.”
“Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.”
“In international commerce, India is an ancient country-(19th October, 1899)”
“the designation of wife in India, of the Hindu wife, is higher and grander than that of Empress. She is called Devi”
“Any human being has a fundamental right to fight for their rights, but that (own right) can not include anything that is fundamentally trying to deny others what is their fundamental right.The root...”
“The greatest skeptic must now admit that the land and sea-borne trade of India had given her a world-wide fame not only for her gold, spices and silk, but for her religions and philosophies also.”
“It is man's social nature which distinguishes him from the brute creation. If it is his privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter-dependent. Only an arrogant man will claim to...”
