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The cause is everything. Those even who are dearest to us must be shunted for the sake of the cause.
I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence.
Every person in a well-ordered state is fully conscious of both his responsibilities and his rights.
You cannot succeed in one department of life while cheating on another, life is an indivisible whole.
Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties.
Let us give today first the vital things of life and all the grace and ornaments of life will follow.
Every moment of my existence is dedicated to the winning of Swaraj by means of truth and nonviolence.
The moment the cultivators of the soil realize their power, the evil of Zamindari will be sterilized.
Khadi mentality means decentralization of the production and distribution of the necessaries of life.
A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
God will cease to be God, if he brought into being a single person with the hall-mark of inferiority.
It is a travesty of true religion to consider one's own religion as superior and other's as inferior.
God is omnipresent; even a pebble in the Narmada can represent Him and serve as an object of worship.
Khadi work without the mastery of the science of khadi will be love's labour lost in terms of Swaraj.
Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
Love is a rare herb that makes a friend even of a sworn enemy and this herb grows out of nonviolence.
A man can give up a right, but he may not give up a duty without being guilty of a grave dereliction.
I condemn, for all climes and for all times, secret murders and unfair methods even for a fair cause.
It is indeed a million times better to appear untrue before the world than to be untrue to ourselves.
All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation.
Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself?
I will say that if there is anything like God Or Truth on earth, Hindu-Muslim unity is also possible.
God always saves the world from the consequences of unintended errors of men who live in fear of Him.
Our prayer is a heart search. It is a reminder to ourselves that we are helpless without His support.
To reject the necessity of temples is to reject the necessity of God, religion and earthly existence.
All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.
If I arrogate to myself the exclusive title of being in the right, I usurp the function of the Deity.
If Britain wins wholly, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and perhaps even Bolshevik Russia will disappear.
Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society.
If my nonviolence is to be contagious and infectious, I must acquire greater control over my thoughts.
The Charkha is intended to realize the essential and living oneness of interest among India's myriads.
I have pinned my faith to the spinning wheel. On it, I believe, the salvation of this country depends.
I would rather drown myself in the waters of the Sabarmati than harbour hate or animosity in my heart.
Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge.
Once Jesus had blazed the trail, his twelve disciples could carry on his mission without his presence.
You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.
If we import compulsion in matters of religion, there is no doubt that we shall be committing suicide.
The real test of nonviolence lies in its being brought in contact with those who have contempt for it.
Let the villages of the future live in our imagination, so that we might one day come to live in them!
Mankind is one, seeing that all are equally subject to the moral law. All men are equal in God's eyes.
Nonviolence is the law of the human race and is infinitely greater than, and superior to, brute force.
Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world.
Study men laying down their lives without hurting anyone else in the cause of their country's freedom.
Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.
My religion enables me, obliges me to imbibe all that is good in all the great religions of the earth.
Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.
Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you.
Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha.
I would not sell the vital interests of the untouchables for the sake of winning the freedom of India.
I hold too that whatever may be true of other countries, a bloody revolution will not succeed in India.