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Unless the charkha adds to your ahimsa and makes you stronger every day, your Gandhism is of little avail.
Even a believer in nonviolence has to say between two combatants which is less bad or whose cause is just.
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
Indeed one's faith in one's plans and methods is truly tested when the horizon before one is the blackest.
There being no absolute and universal standard of right, terrorism must be held to be wrong in every case.
Tolerance gives us spiritual insight, which is as far from fanaticism as the north pole is from the south.
Buddha never rejected Hinduism, but he broadened its base. He gave it a new life and a new interpretation.
One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.
Through realization of freedom of India, I hope to realize and carry on the mission of brotherhood of man.
Freedom of India will demonstrate to all the exploited races of the earth that their freedom is very near.
It is my great misfortune that I have to measure your love by the money gifts you give for Daridranarayana.
My respectful study of other religions has not abated my reverence for or my faith in the Hindu scriptures.
A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution.
My purpose is to describe experiments in the science ofsatyagraha and not at all to describe how good I am.
Swaraj means, a state such that we can maintain our separate existence without the presence of the English.
My heart rebels against any foreigner imposing on my country the peace which is here called Pax-Britannica.
Love is needed to strengthen the weak; love becomes tyrannical when it exacts obedience from an unbeliever.
Let us remember that we are all Indians eating Indian grain and salt, and living on the dumb Indian masses.
You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.
This feeling of helplessness in us has arisen from our deliberate dismissal of God from our common affairs.
The path of bhakti, karma and love as expounded in the Gita leaves no room for the despising of man by man.
All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body.
I must fight unto the death the unholy attempt to impose British methods and British institutions on India.
A slave-holder cannot hold a slave without putting himself or his deputy in the cage for holding the slave.
Study not man in his animal nature - man following the laws of the jungle - but study man in all his glory.
The world is big enough to satisfy everyones needs, but will always be too small to satisfy everyones greed
A satyagrahi has always his minimum and it is this minimum that is wanted in connection with this struggle.
What the two hands of the labourer can achieve, the capitalist will never get with all his gold and silver.
A Swaraj government means a government established by the free joint will of Hindus, Mussalmans and others.
Forgive and forget, but never forget to forgive. You may find a happier heart is the key to a happier life.
May not men earn their bread by intellectual labor? No, the needs of the body must be supplied by the body.
Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."
God demands nothing less than self - surrender as the price for the only real freedom that is worth having.
If we have the khadi spirit in us, then we should surround ourselves with simplicity in every walk of life.
The end of nonviolent 'war' is always an agreement, never dictation, much less humiliation of the opponent.
The sacred thread and the tuft of hair without a pure heart and a spirit of toleration do not make a Hindu.
What God may have enabled me to do is but a repayment of debt, and he who repays a debt deserves no praise.
If we would be pure, if we would save Hinduism, we must rid ourselves of this poison of enforced widowhood.
Hinduism would not have been much of a religion if Rama had not steeled his heart against every temptation.
The only praise I would like and treasure is the promotion of the activities to which my life is dedicated.
Freedom of worship, even of public speech, would become a farce if interference became the order of the day.
I still somehow or other fancy that "my philosophy" represents the true meaning of the teaching of the Gita.
True ahimsa should mean a complete freedom from ill-will and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all.
One has to speak out and stand up for one's convictions. Inaction at a time of conflagration is inexcusable.
Non-co-operation enables us to show that in everything that matters we can be independent of the Government.
Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.
Of all the black crimes that humanity is committing against the great Creation, vivisection is the blackest.
Those who are truthful, nonviolent and brave do not cease to be so because of the stupidity of their leader.
Great causes cannot be served by intellectual equipment alone, they call for spiritual effort of soul-force.