To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect and their oneness, and should insist upon choosing as their representatives only such persons as are good and tru...
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it.
My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.
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 cruelt...
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.
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.
Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrar...
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
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.
Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.
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 moral power, then w...
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
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 as dear as Hinduism. So...
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
Nobody can hurt me without my permission.