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By Ram Raj I do not mean Hindu Raj. I mean by Ram Raj, Divine Raj, the Kingdom of God.
Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect.
God will not be God, if He allowed Himself to be the object of proof by His creatures.
Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.
I want for India complete independence in the full English sense of that English term.
There is a world-wide conflict between capital and labour, and the poor envy the rich.
In the very act of my non-co-operation, I am seeking their co-operation in my campaign.
The Law of Love, call it attraction, affinity, cohesion if you like, governs the world.
How heavy is the toll of sins and wrong that wealth, power and prestige exact from man.
Nonviolence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-co-operation with evil.
Employers ganging up against workers is like raising an army of elephants against ants.
To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy.
Nonviolence is not an easy thing to understand, still less to practice, weak as we are.
Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.
By using violence to subjugate one another we are using violence against our own souls.
India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.
If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.
Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.
A fearless woman who knows that her purity is her best shield can never be dishonoured.
Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion.
Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
A full and candid admission of one's mistakes should make proof against its repetition.
If you take care of your immediate surroundings, the universe will take care of itself.
A votary of ahimsa always prays for ultimate deliverance from the bondage of the flesh.
Hand-spinning is designed to put millions of rupees in the hands of the poor villagers.
It is as much our obligation not to cooperate with evil as it is to cooperate with good
I am a seasoned soldier of nonviolence, and I have evidence enough to sustain my faith.
May the work of your hands be a sign of gratitude and reverence to the human condition.
A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat.
All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error.
Anger, lust and such other evil passions raging in the heart are the real untouchables.
A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence.
This earthly existence of ours is more brittle that the glass bangles that ladies wear.
We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
I cannot give active support in the war effort without denying a life-time of practice.
When freedom is in jeopardy, non-co-operation may be a duty and prison may be a palace.
Every calamity should lead to a thorough cleansing of individual as well as social life.
God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.
The best way of losing a cause is to abuse your opponent and to trade upon his weakness.
Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent.
Even swadeshi, like any other good thing, can be ridden to death if it is made a fetish.
Total nonviolent non-cooperation has no place in popular Raj, whatever its level may be.
A faith gained in strength only when people were willing to lay down their lives for it.
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate.
I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.
Personally I like to believe that all become honest, the millennium is round the corner!
The English language is so elastic that you can find another word to say the same thing.
Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.
God makes crooked straight for us and sets things right when they seem to go dead wrong.