1. “That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.”
2. “To Believe is something, and do not live it,is dishonest..”
3. “All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.”
4. “It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honored by the humiliation of their fellow beings.”
5. “Seven Dangers Of Human Virtue:
--> Wealth without Work
-->Pleasure without conscience
-->Knowledge without character
-->Business without ethics
-->Science without Humanity
-->Religion without sacrifice
-->Politics without Principles”
6. “Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. Without interrelation with society he cannot realize his oneness with the universe or suppress his egotism. His social interdependence enables him to test his faith and to prove himself on the touchstone of reality.”
7. “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
8. “All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.”
9. “The Best Thing To Find Yourself Is To Lose Yourself In The Service Of Others”
10. “Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone.”
11. “Morality is contraband in war.”
12. “Truth should be the very breath of our life. When once this state in the pilgrim's progress is reached, all other rules of correct living will come without any effort, and obedience to them will be instinctive.”
13. We must be ever courteous and patient with those who do not see eye to eye with us. We must resolutely refuse to consider our opponents as enemies.”
14.. “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.”
15. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”
16. “God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.”
17. “Violence begins with the fork.”
18 “Hesitating to act because the whole vision might not be achieved, or because others do not yet share it, is an attitude that only hinders progress.”
19. “Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
20. “We are constantly being astonished these days at the amazing discoveries in the field of violence. But I maintain that far more undreamt of and seemingly impossible discoveries will be made in the field of nonviolence.”
21. “Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.”
22. “Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.”
23.“A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.”
24.“I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.”
25.“I believe in trusting. Trust begets trust. Suspicion is foetid and only stinks. He who trusts has never yet lost in the world.”
26.“Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways. I am sensible of the fact that they are indescribable and inscrutable. But if mortal man will dare to describe them, he has no better medium than his own inarticulate speech.”
27.“Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.”
28. “One thing we have endeavored to observe most scrupulously, namely, never to depart from the strictest facts and, in dealing with the difficult questions that have arisen during the year, we hope that we have used the utmost moderation possible under the circumstances.”
30. “Sympathy is what you have for someone after they die, pity you have for someone when they don't have a date to the biggest dance of the year. Empathy is what I do to you when you judge me. Envy is having pity on you. Can you discern the rest for yourself?”
31. “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.”
32. “In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
33. “It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, which he is shaming by his manners.”
34. I look upon an increase in the power of the State with the greatest fear because, although while apparently doing good by minimizing exploitation, it does the greatest harm to mankind by destroying individuality which lies at the heart of all progress.”
35. “We stand on the threshold of a twilight-whether morning or evening we do not know. One is followed by the night, the other heralds the dawn.”
36. “Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.”
37. “Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It is when the horizon is the darkest and human reason is beaten down to the ground that faith shines brightest and comes to our rescue.”
38. “We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.”
39. “The devotion of such titans of spirit as Lenin to an Ideal must bear fruit. The nobility of his selflessness will be an example through centuries to come, and his Ideal will reach perfection.”
40. “I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest good of the greatest number. The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all.”
41. “Whatever you do in life will be insignificant, but it's very important that you do it. Because nobody else will.”
42. “Civilization is the encouragement of differences.”
43. “I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.”
44. “We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings.”
45. “Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers.”
46. “If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors.”
47. “Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.”
48. “Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two. What is obtained by love is retained for all time. What is obtained by hatred proves a burden in reality for it increases hatred."
49. “There are only two ways to live your life: as though nothing is a miracle, or as though everything is a miracle.”
50. “Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even If I didn't have it in the beginning".”
51. “If you want something really important to be done you must not merely satisfy the reason, you must move the heart also.”
52. “Truth has drawn me into the field of politics; and I can say without the slightest hesitation, and yet in all humility, that those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means.”
53. “Love is the strongest force the world possesses.”
54. “You can't lead a true life without suffering”
55. “Sacrifice is joy.”
56. “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.”
57. “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 man from the cruelty of humankind.”
58. “As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.”
59. “It seems to me as clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime.”
60. “No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.”
61. “Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence”
62. “One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.”
63. “In fact, it is more correct to say that Truth is God, than to say that God is Truth.”
64. “There's no God higher than truth.”
65. “I shall die, but I will not kill.”
66. “I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality”
67. “Strength of numbers is the delight of the timid. The Valiant in spirit glory in fighting alone.”
68. “I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the culture of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any”
69. “I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption.”
70. “Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.”
71. “Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself”
72. “My effort should never be to undermine another's faith but to make him a better follower of his own faith.”
73. “A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.”
74. “All your scholarship would be in vain if at the same time you do not build your character and attain mastery over your thoughts and your actions.”
75. “Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state.”
76. “What lies ahead of you & what lies behind you are nothing compared to what lies within you.”
77. “Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.”
78. “The more efficient a force is, the more silent and the more subtle it is.”
79. “A man of character will make himself worthy of any position he is given.”
80. “But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep.”
81. “I claim to be no more than the average person with less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.”
82. “One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole”
83. “Recall the face of the poorest and weakest man you have seen, and ask yourself if this step you contemplate is going to be any use to him.”
84. “Do not crave to know the views of others, nor base your intent thereon. To think independently for yourself is a sign of fearlessness.”
85. “Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the government of the day, to do the work of defense for him. A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women.”
86. “Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologize for being correct, or for being years ahead of your time. If you’re right and you know it, speak your mind. Speak your mind. Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth.”
87. “There are two days in the year that we cannot do anything, yesterday and tomorrow”
88. “A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.”
89. “Where there is fear there is no religion.”
90. “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 be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.”
91. “Your tomorrow depends entirely on what you do today.”
92. “Behavior is the mirror in which we can display our image.”
93. “A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.”
94. “Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.”
95. “An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.”
96. “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.”
97. “It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.”
98. “You yourself as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve love and affection.”
99. “Everyone holds a piece of the truth.”
100. “To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.”
