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The Charkha is an outward symbol of truth and nonviolence.
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
Satyagraha does not begin and end with civil disobedience.
Only the toad under the harrow knows where it pinches him.
If an enemy strikes your left cheek, offer him your right.
Swaraj for me means freedom for the meanest of countrymen.
It was the cowards who died many times before their death.
All true art must help the soul to realize its inner self.
Nonviolence requires more courage than the soldier of war.
The purer I try to become, the nearer I feel to be to God.
The cow can be saved only if buffalo-breeding is given up.
It does not require money to be neat, clean and dignified.
In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.
The nonviolent man automatically becomes a servant of God.
I believe that it is impossible to end hatred with hatred.
I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.
God can never be realized by one who is not pure of heart.
Freedom battles are not fought without paying heavy prices.
Religions are different roads converging to the same point.
World has things which full fill man needs, but not greeds.
It is weakness which breeds fear, and fear breeds distrust.
My religion is a matter solely between my Maker and myself.
Ahimsa is not a matter of mere dietetics: it transcends it.
Khaddar brings a ray of hope to the widow's broken-up home.
Every truth is self-acting and possesses inherent strength.
There can be no Swaraj where there is no harmony, no music.
My Swaraj is to keep intact the genius of our civilization.
Unlike the animal, God has given man the faculty of reason.
The devotee of truth is often obliged to grope in the dark.
Ahimsa in theory no one knows. It is as indefinable as God.
I may not unnerve myself while I can struggle against evil.
A friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.
Khadi will be the sun of the whole industrial solar system.
Perfect nonviolence is difficult. It admits to no weakness.
You cannot neglect the nearer duty for the sake of a remote.
Better than cowardice is killing and being killed in battle.
The pure love of one soul can offset the hatred of millions.
Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him.
Non-co-operation in itself is unnatural, vicious and sinful.
If you must kill English officials, why not kill me instead?
Silence is a great help to a seeker after truth like myself.
Doubt is invariably the result of want or weakness of faith.
Religion is a thing to be lived. It is not merely sophistry.
Swaraj as conceived by me does not mean the end of kingship.
Literacy is not the end of education nor even the beginning.
The fullest application of ahimsa does make life impossible.
To a starving man, God can only appear in the form of bread.
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Real education consists in drawing the best out of yourself.
God speaks to us every day only we don't know how to listen.