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Better than cowardice is killing and being killed in battle.
Literacy is not the end of education nor even the beginning.
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers.
Speed is irrelevant if you are going in the wrong direction.
My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness.
Real education consists in drawing the best out of yourself.
Religion is a thing to be lived. It is not merely sophistry.
The pure love of one soul can offset the hatred of millions.
Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him.
The fullest application of ahimsa does make life impossible.
But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
You cannot neglect the nearer duty for the sake of a remote.
God speaks to us every day only we don't know how to listen.
Non-co-operation in itself is unnatural, vicious and sinful.
Doubt is invariably the result of want or weakness of faith.
If you must kill English officials, why not kill me instead?
Non-co-operation in an angry atmosphere is an impossibility.
To a starving man, God can only appear in the form of bread.
Silence is a great help to a seeker after truth like myself.
Swaraj as conceived by me does not mean the end of kingship.
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.
Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?
Harijan service is a duty the caste Hindus owe to themselves.
A spirit is not necessarily purer, because it is disembodied.
The nation cannot be kept on the nonviolent path by violence.
A person unbound by vows can never be absolutely relied upon.
To die in the act of killing is, in essence, to die defeated.
Non-co-operation is not a movement of drag, bluster or bluff.
My personal religion peremptorily forbids me to hate anybody.
There can be no nonviolence offered by the militarily strong.
All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.
Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill.
A living faith cannot be manufactured by the rule of majority
The music of the spinning wheel will be as balm to your soul.
Nonviolence does not require any outside or outward training.
You will find that God is always by the side of the fearless.
You will not pit one word of God against another word of God.
Men aspiring to be free can hardly think of enslaving others.
It is for you and me to show that no vice is inherent in man.
Mankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence.
Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves.
At the centre of nonviolence is a force which is self-acting.
In satyagraha, a courted imprisonment carries its own praise.
There is no need of a teacher for those who know how to think.
The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet.