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Just as the body cannot exist without blood, so the soul needs the matchless and pure strength of faith.
The votaries of nonviolence cannot harbour violence even in thought, let alone the question of doing it.
The art of dying bravely and with honour does not need any special training, save a living faith in God.
So far as I can see the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained mankind for ages.
I call myself a labourer because I take pride in calling myself a spinner, weaver, farmer and scavenger.
India is essentially a karmabhumi (land of duty) in contradistinction to bhogabhumi (land of enjoyment).
He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa.
If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
I must declare that it is better for India do discard violence altogether even for defending her borders.
My Rama, the Rama of our prayers, is not the historical Rama, the son of Dasharatha, the king of Ayodhya.
I have described Swaraj as Ramarajya and Ramarajya is an impossibility unless we have thousands of Sitas.
Economics that hurt the moral well-being of an individual or a nation are immoral and, therefore, sinful.
The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.
It is necessary first to purify the drunken and dissolute worshippers in charge of some of these temples.
For a non-violent person the whole world is one family. He will thus fear none, nor will others fear him.
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
God the Compassionate and the Merciful, Tolerance incarnate, allows Mammon to have his nine days' wonder.
Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise.
The Indian struggle is not anti-British, it is anti-exploitation, anti-foreign rule, not anti-foreigners.
The call of the spinning wheel is the noblest of all. Because it is the call of love. And love is Swaraj.
Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.
My soul refuses to be satisfied so long as it is a helpless witness of a single wrong or a single misery.
Satyagraha and civil disobedience and fasts have nothing in common with the use of force, veiled or open.
For a fallen India to aspire to move the world and protect the weaker races is seemingly an impertinence.
You are no Satyagrahi if you remain silent or passive spectators while your enemy is being done to death.
Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire.
We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.
The right to err, which means the freedom to try experiments, is the universal condition of all progress.
Hindu religious literature, indeed all religious literature, is full of illustrations to prove the truth.
One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals.
All our philosophy is as dry as dust if it is not immediately translated into some act of living service.
Literary education must follow the education of the hand -the one gift that distinguishes man from beast.
Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic
I want India to come into her own and that state cannot be better defined by any single word than Swaraj.
I do regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism are.
No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will.
If I were over full of pity for the cow, I should sacrifice my life to save her but not take my brother's.
My religion teaches me that a promise once made or a vow once taken for a worthy object may not be broken.
It is difficult for me to regard anyone who obeys no moral principle in his conduct to be a religious man.
My effort should never be to undermine another's faith but to make him a better follower of his own faith.
Confession of one's guilt purifies and uplifts. Its suppression is degrading and should always be avoided.
I eat to live, to serve, and also, if it so happens, to enjoy, but I do not eat for the sake of enjoyment.
Christianity in India is inextricably mixed up for the last hundred and fifty years with the British rule.
To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness.
Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.
There is a power now slumbering within us, which is awakened would do to evil what light does to darkness.
My own opinion is that just as fundamentally man and woman are one, their problems must be one in essence.
Death is at any time blessed but it is twice blessed for a warrior who dies for his cause, that is, truth.
To me I seem to be constantly growing. I must respond to varying conditions, yet remain changeless within.
If you want to play your part in the world's affairs, you must refuse to deck yourselves for pleasing man.