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It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.
I refuse to believe that the tendency of human nature is always downward.
It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.
A semi-starved nation can have neither religion nor art nor organization.
I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians.
The more efficient a force is, the more silent and the more subtle it is.
'Physician, heal thyself' is more true in matters religious than mundane.
It will profit you nothing to remember old wrongs and nurse old enmities.
The sanyasa of the Gita will not tolerate complete cessation of activity.
The man of prayer will be at peace with himself and with the whole world.
The religion of nonviolence is not meant merely for therishis and saints.
A clear victory of satyagraha is impossible so long as there is ill will.
Democracy, disciplined and enlightened, is the finest thing in the world.
The foundation of service and your real training lie in spinning khaddar.
The spinning wheel is the auspicious symbol of sharir yajna, body labour.
My attitude towards the British is one of utter friendliness and respect.
The platform of services is as big as the world. It is never overcrowded.
A true Brahmachari will not even dream of satisfying the fleshly appetite
My non-violence bids me dedicate myself to the service of the minorities.
My religion and my patriotism derived from my religion, embrace all life.
Nonviolence is a plant of slow growth, it grows imperceptibly but surely.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
It's not too late at all. You just don't yet know what you are capable of.
Imperialism is a negation of God. It does ungodly acts in the name of God.
Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence.
Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.
If light can come out of darkness, then alone can love emerge from hatred.
Live each day as if it were your last. Learn as if you would live forever.
Why should men arrogate to themselves the right to regulate female purity?
There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.
I cannot picture to myself a time when all mankind will have one religion.
Whatever can be useful to those starving millions is beautiful to my mind.
Death is no fiend, he is the truest of friends. He delivers us from agony.
The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa.
In a strictly scientific sense God is at the bottom of both good and evil.
Ahimsa must express itself through acts of selfless service of the masses.
Begin with duties of a man and rights will follow as spring follows winter
For me the only certain means of knowing God is nonviolence, ahimsa, love.
A literal interpretation of the Gita lands one in a sea of contradictions.
The spinning wheel is as much a necessity of Indian life as air and water.
God's laws are eternal and unalterable and not separable from God Himself.
Nonviolent defence presupposes recklessness about one's life and property.
If treachery is the reward of trust, will the man who trusts come to harm?
At the moment the British Common-wealth is a Commonwealth of White nation.
The spinning wheel for us is the foundation for all public corporate life.
A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much.
The Bible is as much a book of religion with me as the Gita and the Koran.
Healthy and nourishing food was the only alpha and omega of rural economy.
Love is the humblest yet the most powerful force that the human being has.
I had learnt at the onset not to carry on public work with borrowed money.