It is a heavy downpour of rain which drenches the soil to fullness; likewise only a profuse shower of love can overcome hatred.

I claim to represent all the cultures, for my religion, whatever it may be called, demands the fulfillment of all the cultures.

It took Britain half the resources of the planet to achieve its prosperity; how many planets will a country like India require?

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.

Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.

A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings.

I have been practicing, with scientific precision, nonviolence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years.

A nonviolent warrior knows no leaving the battle. He rushes into the mouth of himsa, never even once harbouring an evil thought.

Conservation of national sanitation is Swaraj work and it may not be postponed for a single day on any consideration whatsoever.

The author of the Mahabharata has not established the necessity of physical warfare; on the contrary he has proved its futility.

Nanda broke down every barrier and won his way to freedom not by brag, not by bluster, but by the purest form of self-suffering.

No sophistry, no jugglery in figures can explain away the evidence that the skeletons in many villages present to the naked eye.

If our ahimsa is not of the brave but of the weak, and if it will bend the knee before himsa, Gandhism deserves to be destroyed.

A perfect mind comes from a perfect heart, not the heart known by a doctor's stethoscope but the heart which is the seat of God.

The spinning wheel means national consciousness and a contribution by every individual to a definite constructive national work.

For the courage of self-sacrifice, woman is any time superior to man, as I believe man is to woman for the courage of the brute.

Swaraj is not a product of excitement or intoxication. Swaraj will be the natural and inevitable result of business like habits.

I have known only one way of carrying on missionary work, viz., by personal example and discussion with searchers for knowledge.

The hardest heart and the grossest ignorance must disappear before the rising sun of suffering without anger and without malice.

My non-co-operation is a token of my earnest longing for real heart co-operation in the place of co-operation falsely so called.

I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.

My varnashram dharma teaches me that there must be some significance in the fact of my being born in India instead of in Europe.

Whatever does not exist in the body can't be found in the universe, and whatever exists in the universe can be found in the body.

As soon as we become one with the ocean in the shape of God, there is no more rest for us, nor indeed do we need rest any longer.

Unless we are able to evolve a spirit of mutual tolerance for diametrically opposite views, non co-operation is an impossibility.

I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning of learning.

Force that the performance of duty naturally generates is the non-violent and invincible force that satyagraha brings into being.

No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing.

Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves.

I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit alone when the time comes.

Spiritual instruments suffer in their potency when their use is taught through non-spiritual messages which are self-propagating.

Without a belief in my programme and without an acceptance of my condition, you will ruin me, ruin yourselves and ruin the cause.

That I want to destroy British imperialism is another matter, but I want to do so by converting those who are associated with it.

Being dissatisfied and properly dissatisfied with the husk of Hinduism, you are in danger of losing even the kernel, life itself.

Government of the people by the people and for the people cannot be conducted at the bidding of one man, however great he may be.

My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible.

That religion and that nation will be blotted out of the face of the earth which pins its faith on injustice, untruth or violence.

The spinning wheel and the spinning wheel alone will solve, if anything will solve, the problem of the deepening poverty of India.

True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it.

Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it.

The willing sacrifice of the innocents is the most powerful retort to insolent tyranny that has yet to be conceived by God or man.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

The duty of motherhood, which the vast majority of woman will always undertake, requires the qualities which men need not possess.

Real suffering bravely borne, melts even a heart of stone. Such is the potency of suffering. And there lies the key to Satyagraha.

Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children.

The aim of university education should be to turn out true servants of the people who will live and die for the country's freedom.

Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.

I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice.

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