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Swaraj is our birthright. No one can deprive us of it unless we forfeit it ourselves.
Your readiness to suffer will light the torch of freedom which will never be put out.
My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive.
Means to be means must always be within our reach, and so ahimsa is our supreme duty.
We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean.
Non-co-operation is protest against an unwitting and unwilling participation in evil.
Can a general fight on the strength of soldiers, who, he knows, have no faith in him?
Without the study of Samskrit one cannot become a true Indian and a true learned man.
Ahimsa is the height of Kshatriya dharma as it represents the climax of fearlessness.
If we develop the force of will, we shall find that we do not need the force of arms.
Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side.
Nothing will demoralize the nation so much as that we should learn to despise labour.
I have so much to accomplish today that I must meditate for two hours instead of one.
Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
A smattering of English is worse than useless; it is an unnecessary tax on our women.
By ahimsa we will be able to save the cow and also win the friendship of the English.
The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit.
Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.
Hinduism with its message of ahimsa is to me the most glorious religion in the world.
The first condition of nonviolence is justice all round, in every department of life.
All the dry ethics of the world turn to dust because apart from God they are lifeless.
I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong.
The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.
On India rests the burden of pointing the way to all the exploited races of the earth.
I am part and parcel of the whole and cannot find God apart from the rest of humanity.
Every man has an equal right to the necessaries of life even as birds and beasts have.
Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.
Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.
I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people.
Like the watch, the heart needs the winding of purity, or the Dweller ceases to speak.
Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men.
The untouchability of Hinduism is probably worse than that of the modern imperialists.
If we are true servants of the masses, we would take pride in spinning for their sake.
The principle of majority does not work when differences on fundamentals are involved.
True material welfare is never inconsistent with performance of religious obligations.
I believe that religious education must be the sole concern of religious associations.
Swaraj means ability to regard every inhabitant of India as our own brother or sister.
The wise are unaffected either by death or life. These are but faces of the same coin.
Violence can only be effectively met by nonviolence. This is an old established truth.
Our nonviolence vis-а-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak.
If it had not been for the Christians that I have known I might have been a Christian.
Cow-protection can only be secured by cultivating universal friendliness, i.e. ahimsa.
My Hinduism teaches me to respect all religions. In this lies the secret of Ramarajya.
The purification required is not of untouchables but of the so-called superior castes.
If all simply insist on rights and no duties, there will be utter confusion and chaos.
There is no such thing as ‘too insane’ unless others turn up dead due to your actions.
Without devotion, action and knowledge are cold and dry and many even become shackles.
Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.
Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
When a man fasts, it is not the gallons of water he drinks that sustains him, but God.