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It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
The prince and the peasant will not be equalized by cutting off the prince's head.
There are two days in the year that we can not do anything, yesterday and tomorrow
The rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society.
I find that we are all such sinners that it is better to leave the judging to God.
Every fight is one between different angles of vision illuminating the same truth.
Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science.
Restore the spinning wheel to its place and you will solve the problem of poverty.
I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him.
A love that is based on the goodness of those whom you love is a mercenary affair.
The richest grace of ahimsa will descend easily upon the owner of hard discipline.
Tolstoy was the greatest apostle of nonviolence that the present age has produced.
No man could look upon another as his enemy, unless he first became his own enemy.
In the code of the satyagrahi, there is no such thing as surrender to brute force.
Hinduism insists on the brotherhood of not only all mankind but of all that lives.
The one condition for fighting for peace and liberty is to acquire self-restraint.
But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.
A duty religiously performed carries with it several other important consequences.
I saw that bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education.
The voice of the people may be said to be God's voice, the voice of the Panchayat.
Nonviolence is the rock on which the whole structure of non-co-operation is built.
In man, reason quickens and guides feelings; in brute, the soul lies ever dormant.
Half-a-dozen or twenty cities of India alone working together cannot bring Swaraj.
Everything that we do is insignificant...and...it is very important that we do it!
It is claimed for satyagraha that it is a complete substitute for violence or war.
If Hinduism teaches hatred of Islam or of non-Hindus, it is doomed to destruction.
A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer.
It was through the Hindu religion that I learnt to respect Christianity and Islam.
The Gita is not only my Bible and my Koran, it is more than that, it is my mother.
Religion is no test of nationality, but a personal matter between man and his God.
India unarmed would not require to be destroyed through poison gas or bombardment.
Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world; but to change ourselves.
Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character.
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.
The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.
Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.
Democracy is a great institution and, therefore, it is liable to be greatly abused.
Vehement writing, even if it is charged with truth, is no answer to violent action.
An India awakened and free has a message of peace and goodwill to a groaning world.
To me Truth is God and there is no way to find Truth except the way of nonviolence.
My love for nonviolence is superior to every other thing, mundane or super mundane.
A man cannot serve God and Mammon, nor be "temperate and furious" at the same time.
I know that not only is Swaraj our birthright, but it is our sacred duty to win it.
I would like to bury myself in an Indian village, preferably in a Frontier village.
A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
Armed conspiracies against something satanic is like matching Satans against Satan.
There is no such thing as 'Gandhism', and I do not want to leave any sect after me.