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Nonviolence of the strong cannot be a mere policy. It must be a creed, or a passion, if 'creed' is objected to.
The real property that a parent can transmit to all equally is his or her character and educational facilities.
No two men are absolutely alike, not even twins, yet there is much that is indispensably common to all mankind.
It's more important to put the own heart in the prayer than to put other's words with nothing of the own heart.
To put up with. . . distortions and to stick to one's guns come what may - this is the. . . gift of leadership.
This belief in the necessity of English training has enslaved us. It has unfitted us for true national service.
The day a woman can walk freely on the roads at night, that day we can say that India has achieved independence
God gifted man with intellect so that he might know his Maker. Man abused it so that he might forget his Maker.
God resides in every human form, indeed in every particle of His creations, in everything that is on his earth.
Seeming failure is not of the law of satyagrahabut of incompetence of the satyagrahi by whatever cause induced.
My knowledge of the letter of the Shastras is better, but of true religion they are able to give me but little.
What I call the law of satyagraha is to be deduced from an appreciation of duties and rights flowing therefrom.
You may think your actions are meaningless and that they won't help, but that is no excuse, you must still act.
It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet
If hand-spinning is an effective method of making India self-supporting, it must be made part of the franchise.
When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
Nowhere in the world would you find such skeletons of cows and bullocks as you do in our cow-worshipping India.
To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.
None, while in flesh, can be entirely free from himsa, because one never completely renounces the will to live.
Where there are millions upon millions of units of idle labour, it is no use thinking of labour-saving devices.
I came to the conclusion long ago . . . that all religions were true, and also that all had some error in them.
They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.
Nonviolence in politics is a new weapon in the process of evolution; its vast possibilities are yet unexplored.
My whole soul rebels against the idea that Hinduism and Islam represent two antagonistic cultures and doctrines.
If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.
The very essence of democracy is that every person represents all the varied interests which compose the nation.
I regard Duryodhana and his party as the baser impulses in man, and Arjuna and his party as the higher impulses.
All the great religions of the world inculcate equality and brotherhood of mankind and the virtue of toleration.
All sins are committed in secrecy. The moment we realize that God witnesses even our thoughts, we shall be free.
It amazes me to find an intelligent person who fights against something which he does not at all believe exists.
Whilst the Bihar calamity damages the body, the calamity brought about by untouchability corrodes the very soul.
Does not the history of the world show that there would have been no romance in life if there had been no risks?
Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes.
Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths.
The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.
Ahimsa calls for the strength and courage to suffer without retaliation, to receive blows without returning any.
Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.
A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber.
The man or the woman who can display the nonviolence of the brave can easily stand against as external invasion.
God in his wisdom circumscribed man's vision, and rightly too, for otherwise man's conceit would know no bounds.
The greatness of the human being is not in the reincarnation of the world but in the reincarnation of ourselves.
To gain India's freedom, the capacity for suffering must go hand in hand with the capacity for ceaseless labour.
Whatever else India may not be, she is at least one thing, She is the greatest storehouse of spiritual knowledge.
But the fact that I had learnt to be tolerant to other religions did not mean that I had any living faith in God.
Non-co-operation in the political field is an extension of the doctrine as it is practised in the domestic field.
No two leaves were alike, and yet there is no antagonism between them or between the branches on which they grow.
A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation.
Violence will prevail over violence, only when someone can prove to me that darkness can be dispelled by darkness
The snakes have their place in the agricultural economy of the village, but our villagers do not seem realize it.
The force of the spirit is ever progressive and endless. Its full expression makes it unconquerable in the world.