Democracy is a great institution and, therefore, it is liable to be greatly abused.

It was our love of foreign cloth that ousted the wheel from its position of dignity.

Assumption of superiority by any person over any other is a sin against God and man.

No one has the capacity to judge God. We are drops in that limitless ocean of mercy.

There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.

Satan's successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips.

Satyagraha does not depend on outside help, it derives all its strength from within.

No nation keeps another in subjection without herself turning into a subject nation.

Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin.

Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled.

Woman is more fitted than man to make explorations and take bolder action in ahimsa.

Man will ever remain imperfect, and it will always be his part to try to be perfect.

When there is no desire for fruit, there is also no temptation for untruth or himsa.

Disease increases in proportion to the increase in the number of doctors in a place.

Without satyagraha carried out in the proper spirit, there is no victory, no Swaraj.

A satyagrahi loves his so-called enemy even as he loves his friend. He has no enemy.

The way of mutual strife and exclusiveness is the only way to perdition and slavery.

There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.

Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government.

Truth, which is permanent, eludes the historian of events. Truth transcends history.

Free, open love I have looked upon as dog's love. Secret love is, besides, cowardly.

I believe in the capacity of India to offer nonviolent battle to the English rulers.

What is it but my ahimsa that draws thousands of women to me in fearless confidence?

In fact, it is more correct to say that Truth is God, than to say that God is Truth.

The cottage industry of India had to perish in order that Lancashire might flourish.

If love wasn't the law of life, life would not have persisted in the midst of death.

A small group of determined and like-minded people can change the course of history.

If we weep for all the deaths in our country, the tears in our eyes would never dry.

Ahimsa is one of the world's great principles, which no power on earth can wipe out.

The whole existence of man is a ceaseless duel between the forces of life and death.

I should wish to die if a man who is impure should parade his purity in front of me.

There is no occasion for women to consider themselves subordinate or inferior to man

Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.

Nature Cure is so simple easy and cheap.....this system of treatment should be used.

It is my unmistakable belief that not a blade of grass moves but by the divine will.

There are innumerable definitions of God because his manifestations are innumerable.

The light of the world will illuminate within you when you fast and purify yourself.

India will not be a helpless partner in her own exploitation and foreign domination.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

I invite even the school of violence to give this peaceful non-co-operation a trial.

Nonviolence or soul force does not need physical aids for its propagation of effect.

If God is not a personal being for me like my earthly father, He is infinitely more.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

He who is ever brooding over result often loses nerve in the performance of his duty.

Nonviolence is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.

He who has a living faith in God will not do evil deeds with name of God on his lips.

Man is neither mere intellect not the gross animal body, nor the heart or soul alone.

A man of prayer regards what are known as physical calamities as divine chastisement.

Prosecution of the constructive programme means constructing the structure of Swaraj.

Every living faith must have within itself the power of rejuvenation if it is to live

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