" I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any. "
Mahatma Gandhi Indian ascetic & nationalist leader (1869 – 1948)
" In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth. "
Mahatma Gandhi Indian ascetic & nationalist leader (1869 – 1948)
" The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within. "
Mahatma Gandhi Indian ascetic & nationalist leader (1869 – 1948)
" Affection cannot be manufactored or regulated by law. If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should be free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection, so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite to violence. "
Mahatma Gandhi, 1922 Circuit House speech (court) charged with “attempting to disaffect towrds his majestys government” Indian ascetic & nationalist leader (1869 – 1948)