Quotes by Indian authors

"Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God"

"One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's"

"Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain"

"Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man"

"Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts"

"Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality"

"Morality is contraband in war"

"Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort"

"Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment"

"Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature"

"Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep"

"Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him"

"Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment"

"Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her"

"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"

"It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head"

"It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings"

"Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up"

"Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit"

"Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause"

"Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being"

"Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands"

"Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth"

"I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people"

"I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality"

"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent"

"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"

"I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice"

"I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could"

"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"