Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Darkness
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My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness.
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The Gita distinguishes between the powers of light and darkness and demonstrates their incompatibility.
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Crime and vice generally require darkness for prowling. They disappear when light plays upon them.
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In the midst of darkness, light persists.
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There is a power now slumbering within us, which is awakened would do to evil what light does to darkness.
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A nonviolent struggle necessarily involves construction on a small scale. It cannot therefore lead to tamas or darkness or inertia.
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Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness.
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If light can come out of darkness, then alone can love emerge from hatred.
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While everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates.... For I can see in the midst of death, life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.
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Violence will prevail over violence, only when someone can prove to me that darkness can be dispelled by darkness
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Harshness is conquered by gentleness, hatred by love, lethargy by zeal and darkness by light.
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I was a coward. I used to be haunted by the fear of thieves, ghosts and serpents. I did not dare to stir out of doors at night. Darkness was a terror to me. It was almost impossible for me to sleep in the dark, as I would imagine ghosts coming from one direction, thieves from another and serpents from a third. I could not therefore bear to sleep without a light in the room.
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The Bhagavadgita is a gospel of non-co-operation between the forces of darkness and those of light.
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God is Light, not darkness. God is Love, not hate. God is truth, not untruth. God alone is great.
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In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.
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Mahatma Gandhi
- Born: October 2, 1869
- Died: January 30, 1948
- Occupation: Civil rights leader
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