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I have no other wish in this world but to find light and joy and peace through Hinduism.
This civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed.
In a society based on nonviolence, the smallest nation will feel as tall as the tallest.
Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction.
Think of the poorest person you know and see if your next act will be of any use to him.
We dare not enter the kingdom of liberty with mere life-homage to truth and nonviolence.
A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature.
Nonviolence is not a cloistered virtue, confined only to the rishi and the cave-dweller.
Nature can provide for the needs of people; [she] can't provide for the greed of people.
God has blessed me with the mission to place nonviolence before the nation for adoption.
The more I reflect and look back on the past, the more vividly do I feel my limitations.
The socialistic conception of the West was born in an environment reeking with violence.
Dharma is one and one only. Ahimsa means moksha, and moksha is the realization of Truth.
Religion is entirely a personal matter. Each one could approach his Creator as he liked.
Liberty is a dearly bought commodity and prisons are factories where it is manufactured.
Those who cannot renounce attachment to the results of their work are far from the path.
Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life.
The process of learning should be as far as possible a pleasurable one and not laborious
We shall dig our own grave if we do not purge ourselves of this curse of untouchability.
Hatred is not essential for nationalism. Race hatred will kill the real national spirit.
There is no better way of industrializing the villages of India than the spinning wheel.
Every single act of one who would lead a life of purity should be in the nature of yajna.
A woman's intuition has often proved truer than a man's arrogant assumption of knowledge.
No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties.
Disorder and violence are, in fact, things that might check the pace of India's progress.
Some form of common worship and a common place of worship appear to be a human necessity.
Prayer has been the saviour of my life. Without it I should have been a lunatic long ago.
Naked violence repels like the naked skeleton shorn of flesh, blood and the velvety skin.
When the panchayat raj is established, public opinion will do what violence can never do.
Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.
Time is wealth, and the Gita says the Great Annihilator annihilates those who waste time.
People engaged in a war do not lose temper over matters which affect the fortunes of war.
If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth, you must reduce yourself to a zero.
Let the content of Swaraj grow with the growth of national consciousness and aspirations.
Hinduism loses its right to make a universal appeal if it closes its temples to Harijans.
Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.
That nonviolence which only an individual can use is not of much use in terms of society.
For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence.
Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself.
To my mind, Swaraj based on nonviolence is the fulfillment of the constructive programme.
With my meager knowledge of my own religion I do not want to belong to any religious body
The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members
Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience.
No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation.
Rights of true citizenship accrue only to those who serve the State to which they belong.
No confirmed satyagrahi is dismayed by dangers, seen or unseen, from his opponent's side.
The spinning wheel is not meant to oust a single man or woman from his or her occupation.
I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.
There is no reason to believe that there is one law for families and another for nations.
I do regard spinning and weaving as a necessary part of any national system of education.