Purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one's surroundings.

Non-co-operation intended to pave the way to real honourable and voluntary co-operation based on mutual respect and trust.

A man who is intentionally unarmed relies upon the Unseen Force called God by poets, but called the Unknown by scientists.

The fullest life is impossible without an immovable belief in a Living Law in obedience to which the whole universe moves.

If Swaraj is to be had by peaceful methods, it will only be attained by attention to every little detail of national life.

Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood.

The use of soul-force for turning stones into bread would have been considered, as it is still considered, as black magic.

In the East, as in the West, newspapers are fast becoming people's Bible, Koran, Zend-Avesta and Gita all rolled into one.

Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.

Non -violence is infinitely superior to violence , forgiveness is more manly than punishment. Forgiveness is the ornament.

Everyone wants to be strong and self sufficient, but few are willing to put in the work necessary to achieve worthy goals.

A society or a nation constructed nonviolently must be able to withstand attack upon its structure from without or within.

The early Mussalmans accepted Islam not because they knew it to be revealed but because it appealed to their virgin reason.

Ours is a civil fight, and imprisonment as a civil prisoner has got to be earned by the strict observance of the programme.

All I want to say, with the utmost emphasis at my command, is that the description of India as a military country is wrong.

Religion is one tree with many branches. As branches, you may say, religions are many, but as a tree, religion is only one.

A satyagrahi has no other stay but God, and he who has any other stay or depends on any other help cannot offer satyagraha.

To a people famishing and idle, the only acceptable form in which God can dare appear is work and promise of food as wages.

Do not flatter yourselves with the belief that a mere recital of that celebrated verse in St. John makes a man a Christian.

Independence of my conception means nothing less than the realization of the "Kingdom of God" within you and on this earth.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

Man in the flesh is essentially imperfect. He may be described as being made in the image of God but is far from being God.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

Britain's success in the exploitation of non-European races raised the ambition of Bismarck and later Mussolini and others.

To say that a single human being, because of his birth, becomes an untouchable, unapproachable or invisible is to deny God.

I can neither serve God nor humanity if as an Indian I do not serve India, and as a Hindu I do not serve Indian Mussalmans.

Whomsoever you follow, howsoever great, see to it that you follow the spirit of the master and not imitate him mechanically.

A free India will throw all her weight in favour of world disarmament and should herself be prepared to give a lead in this.

Out of the performance of duties flow rights, and those that knew and performed their duties came naturally by their rights.

I learned from Hussain how to be wronged and be a winner, I learnt from Hussain how to attain victory while being oppressed.

Let us, by praying, purify ourselves and we shall not only remove untouchability but shall also hasten the advent of Swaraj.

Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power.

The taking of vows that are not feasible or that are beyond one's capacity would betray thoughtlessness and want of balance.

We cry for cow protection in the name of religion, but we refuse protection to the human cow in the shape of the girl-widow.

There is every reason for being cautious about founding new universities till India has digested Her newly acquired freedom.

Swadeshism is not a cult of hatred. It is a doctrine of selfless service that has its roots in the purest ahimsa, i.e. love.

A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty.

Lovers of Swaraj cannot rest till a solution is found which would allay Mussalman apprehensions and yet not endanger Swaraj.

Much that we hug today as knowledge is ignorance pure and simple. It makes the mind wander and even reduces it to a vacuity.

Life will not be a pyramid with the apex sustained by the bottom, but an oceanic circle whose centre will be the individual.

Non-co-operation and civil disobedience in terms of Swaraj are not to be thought of without substantial constructive effort.

It would be a blunder of the first magnitude for the British to be a party, in any way whatsoever, to the division of India.

What is truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the 'voice within' tells you.

A rose will smell as sweet by any other name, but it must be the rose of liberty that I want and not the artificial product.

The mind may wander, but let not the senses wander with it. If the senses wander where the mind takes them, one is done for.

Khaddar is an attempt to revise and reverse the process and establish a better relationship between the cities and villages.

Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.

I honor the place within you where, when you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us.

Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it.

For satyagraha and its offshoots, non-co-operation and civil resistance, are nothing but new names for the law of suffering.

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