Cow protection to me is one of the most wonderful phenomena in the human evolution.

Democracy will break under the strain of apron strings. It can exist only on trust.

The only true resistance to this Government... [is] to cease to co-operate with it.

Breach of promise is no less an act of insolvency than a refusal to pay one's debt.

Even the atheists, who have pretended to disbelieve in God, have believed in Truth.

What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal?

Swaraj means even under dominion status a capacity to declare independence at will.

Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-violent structure of society.

Religion all the world over offeres God as the solace and comfort for all in agony.

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government.

No one has the capacity to judge God. We are drops in that limitless ocean of mercy.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

A small group of determined and like-minded people can change the course of history.

Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.

There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.

Satan's successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips.

Man will ever remain imperfect, and it will always be his part to try to be perfect.

There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.

Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin.

Woman is more fitted than man to make explorations and take bolder action in ahimsa.

If love wasn't the law of life, life would not have persisted in the midst of death.

The whole existence of man is a ceaseless duel between the forces of life and death.

The light of the world will illuminate within you when you fast and purify yourself.

Disease increases in proportion to the increase in the number of doctors in a place.

The way of mutual strife and exclusiveness is the only way to perdition and slavery.

Truth, which is permanent, eludes the historian of events. Truth transcends history.

There is no occasion for women to consider themselves subordinate or inferior to man

Nature Cure is so simple easy and cheap.....this system of treatment should be used.

No nation keeps another in subjection without herself turning into a subject nation.

Without satyagraha carried out in the proper spirit, there is no victory, no Swaraj.

A satyagrahi loves his so-called enemy even as he loves his friend. He has no enemy.

It was our love of foreign cloth that ousted the wheel from its position of dignity.

If we weep for all the deaths in our country, the tears in our eyes would never dry.

I should wish to die if a man who is impure should parade his purity in front of me.

There are innumerable definitions of God because his manifestations are innumerable.

In fact, it is more correct to say that Truth is God, than to say that God is Truth.

I invite even the school of violence to give this peaceful non-co-operation a trial.

Nonviolence or soul force does not need physical aids for its propagation of effect.

I believe in the capacity of India to offer nonviolent battle to the English rulers.

The cottage industry of India had to perish in order that Lancashire might flourish.

If God is not a personal being for me like my earthly father, He is infinitely more.

Assumption of superiority by any person over any other is a sin against God and man.

Satyagraha does not depend on outside help, it derives all its strength from within.

Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled.

When there is no desire for fruit, there is also no temptation for untruth or himsa.

Free, open love I have looked upon as dog's love. Secret love is, besides, cowardly.

Ahimsa is one of the world's great principles, which no power on earth can wipe out.

It is my unmistakable belief that not a blade of grass moves but by the divine will.

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