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God chooses as His instrument the humblest and weakest of His creatures to fulfill Himself.
There is no time limit for a satyagrahi nor is there a limit to his capacity for suffering.
God created man to work for his food and said that those who ate without work were thieves.
He who spins before the poor, inviting them to do likewise, serves God as no one else does.
The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
I see neither bravery nor sacrifice in destroying life or property, for offense or defense.
I would risk violence a thousand times rather than risk the emasculation of the whole race.
Knowledge of the tallest scientist or the greatest spiritualist is like a particle of dust.
When you want to find Truth as God, the only inevitable means is love, that is nonviolence.
Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed.
Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.
The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one.
I would ask you to come in Khadi, for Khadi links you with the fallen and the down-trodden.
I believe that the yarn we spin is capable of mending the broken warp and woof of our life!
Let me say that God will send me the plan when He gives the word as He has done before now.
The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.
Without an unreserved surrender to His grace, complete mastery over thoughts is impossible.
One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
If God is vast and boundless as the ocean, how can a tiny drop like man imagine what He is?
Mine is not a religion of the prison-house. It has room for the least among God's creation.
Those who have their hands dyed deep in blood cannot build a nonviolent order for the world.
The way of peace is the way of truth. Truthfulness is even more important than peacefulness.
Purification is never for the selfishly idle, it accrues only to the selflessly industrious.
Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.
I know that man who forsakes Truth can forsake his country and his nearest and dearest ones.
What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.
Wherever flaxseeds become a regular food item among the people, there will be better health.
More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it.
My implicit faith in nonviolence does mean yielding to minorities when they are really weak.
The bomb-throwers have discredited the cause of freedom, in whose name they threw the bombs.
Ravana was a rakshasa but this rakshasi of untouchability is even more terrible than Ravana.
I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.
Self-defense...is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation.
Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
Khadi service, village service and Harijan service are one in reality, though three in name.
Withholding of payment of taxes is one of the quickest methods of overthrowing a government.
I worship the God that is Truth or Truth which is God through the service of these millions.
I believe that there is no prayer without fasting, and there is no real fast without prayer.
Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason.
The world is changing every moment, and is therefore unreal. It has non permanent existence.
Openness of mind strengthens the truth in us and removes the dross from it, if there is any.
Hinduism dies if untouchability lives, and untouchability has to die if Hinduism is to live.
My dharma teaches me to give my life for the sake of others without even attempting to kill.
Celibacy is a great help, inasmuch as it enables one to lead a life of full surrender to God.
Hindu-Muslim unity, khaddar and removal of untouchability are to me the foundation of Swaraj.
Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
Suffering cheerfully endured, ceases to be suffering and is transmuted into an ineffable joy.
Swaraj would be real Swaraj only when there would be no occasion for safeguarding any rights.
What distinguishes man from the brute is his conscious striving to realise the spirit within.