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It is claimed for satyagraha that it is a complete substitute for violence or war.
A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer.
The prince and the peasant will not be equalized by cutting off the prince's head.
I find that we are all such sinners that it is better to leave the judging to God.
It was through the Hindu religion that I learnt to respect Christianity and Islam.
Restore the spinning wheel to its place and you will solve the problem of poverty.
Tolstoy was the greatest apostle of nonviolence that the present age has produced.
Every fight is one between different angles of vision illuminating the same truth.
The voice of the people may be said to be God's voice, the voice of the Panchayat.
There are two days in the year that we can not do anything, yesterday and tomorrow
Half-a-dozen or twenty cities of India alone working together cannot bring Swaraj.
The Gita is not only my Bible and my Koran, it is more than that, it is my mother.
Everything that we do is insignificant...and...it is very important that we do it!
In the code of the satyagrahi, there is no such thing as surrender to brute force.
Religion is no test of nationality, but a personal matter between man and his God.
Hinduism insists on the brotherhood of not only all mankind but of all that lives.
India unarmed would not require to be destroyed through poison gas or bombardment.
If Hinduism teaches hatred of Islam or of non-Hindus, it is doomed to destruction.
Nonviolence is the rock on which the whole structure of non-co-operation is built.
The one condition for fighting for peace and liberty is to acquire self-restraint.
But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.
A love that is based on the goodness of those whom you love is a mercenary affair.
I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him.
Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character.
Even the atheists, who have pretended to disbelieve in God, have believed in Truth.
Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.
Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-violent structure of society.
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.
Vehement writing, even if it is charged with truth, is no answer to violent action.
When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
Armed conspiracies against something satanic is like matching Satans against Satan.
To me Truth is God and there is no way to find Truth except the way of nonviolence.
There is no such thing as 'Gandhism', and I do not want to leave any sect after me.
I know that not only is Swaraj our birthright, but it is our sacred duty to win it.
An India awakened and free has a message of peace and goodwill to a groaning world.
Cow protection to me is one of the most wonderful phenomena in the human evolution.
I would like to bury myself in an Indian village, preferably in a Frontier village.
What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal?
Democracy will break under the strain of apron strings. It can exist only on trust.
My love for nonviolence is superior to every other thing, mundane or super mundane.
Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world; but to change ourselves.
The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.
Swaraj means even under dominion status a capacity to declare independence at will.
The only true resistance to this Government... [is] to cease to co-operate with it.
Religion all the world over offeres God as the solace and comfort for all in agony.
Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
A man cannot serve God and Mammon, nor be "temperate and furious" at the same time.
Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.
Breach of promise is no less an act of insolvency than a refusal to pay one's debt.
A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.