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My non-violence bids me dedicate myself to the service of the minorities.
Wildlife is decreasing in the jungles, but it is increasing in the towns.
I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians.
It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.
Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
The spinning wheel is the auspicious symbol of sharir yajna, body labour.
I refuse to believe that the tendency of human nature is always downward.
The more efficient a force is, the more silent and the more subtle it is.
The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.
My religion and my patriotism derived from my religion, embrace all life.
It needs more than a heart of oak to shed all fear except the fear of God.
There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.
At the moment the British Common-wealth is a Commonwealth of White nation.
A literal interpretation of the Gita lands one in a sea of contradictions.
In a strictly scientific sense God is at the bottom of both good and evil.
Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute.
India's freedom must revolutionize the world's outlook upon Peace and War.
Why should men arrogate to themselves the right to regulate female purity?
The spinning wheel is as much a necessity of Indian life as air and water.
Love is the humblest yet the most powerful force that the human being has.
The spinning wheel for us is the foundation for all public corporate life.
A man who broods on evil is as bad a man who does evil, if he is no worse.
Nonviolent defence presupposes recklessness about one's life and property.
I had learnt at the onset not to carry on public work with borrowed money.
God's laws are eternal and unalterable and not separable from God Himself.
I cannot picture to myself a time when all mankind will have one religion.
I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist and Confucian.
The ally we must cultivate is the part of our enemy which knows the truth.
Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence.
My nonviolence demands universal love, and you are not a small part of it.
I claim to be no more than an average man with below average capabilities.
A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much.
Ahimsa must express itself through acts of selfless service of the masses.
If treachery is the reward of trust, will the man who trusts come to harm?
Whatever can be useful to those starving millions is beautiful to my mind.
Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.
It's not too late at all. You just don't yet know what you are capable of.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
If light can come out of darkness, then alone can love emerge from hatred.
Begin with duties of a man and rights will follow as spring follows winter
Live each day as if it were your last. Learn as if you would live forever.
The Bible is as much a book of religion with me as the Gita and the Koran.
Death is no fiend, he is the truest of friends. He delivers us from agony.
Healthy and nourishing food was the only alpha and omega of rural economy.
Imperialism is a negation of God. It does ungodly acts in the name of God.
For me the only certain means of knowing God is nonviolence, ahimsa, love.
My fight against untouchability is a fight against the impure in humanity.
The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa.
The fear of the judge within is more terrible than that of the one without.
Nonviolence to be worth anything has to work in the face of hostile forces.