Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of nonresistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by l...
Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.
God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.
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...
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 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.
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
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.
Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.
If I had no sense of humor I should long ago have committed suicide.
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
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.
You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them.
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is...