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There is a world-wide conflict between capital and labour, and the poor envy the rich.
Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.
If we are true servants of the masses, we would take pride in spinning for their sake.
If it had not been for the Christians that I have known I might have been a Christian.
The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.
I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people.
The wise are unaffected either by death or life. These are but faces of the same coin.
Our nonviolence vis-а-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak.
God will not be God, if He allowed Himself to be the object of proof by His creatures.
All the dry ethics of the world turn to dust because apart from God they are lifeless.
On India rests the burden of pointing the way to all the exploited races of the earth.
By Ram Raj I do not mean Hindu Raj. I mean by Ram Raj, Divine Raj, the Kingdom of God.
Like the watch, the heart needs the winding of purity, or the Dweller ceases to speak.
True material welfare is never inconsistent with performance of religious obligations.
I believe that religious education must be the sole concern of religious associations.
Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.
Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.
If you take care of your immediate surroundings, the universe will take care of itself.
Anger, lust and such other evil passions raging in the heart are the real untouchables.
Employers ganging up against workers is like raising an army of elephants against ants.
A fearless woman who knows that her purity is her best shield can never be dishonoured.
May the work of your hands be a sign of gratitude and reverence to the human condition.
In the very act of my non-co-operation, I am seeking their co-operation in my campaign.
To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy.
All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error.
A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence.
This earthly existence of ours is more brittle that the glass bangles that ladies wear.
Nonviolence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-co-operation with evil.
India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.
Nonviolence is not an easy thing to understand, still less to practice, weak as we are.
If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.
When freedom is in jeopardy, non-co-operation may be a duty and prison may be a palace.
The Law of Love, call it attraction, affinity, cohesion if you like, governs the world.
Hand-spinning is designed to put millions of rupees in the hands of the poor villagers.
We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
It is as much our obligation not to cooperate with evil as it is to cooperate with good
How heavy is the toll of sins and wrong that wealth, power and prestige exact from man.
A full and candid admission of one's mistakes should make proof against its repetition.
A votary of ahimsa always prays for ultimate deliverance from the bondage of the flesh.
I am a seasoned soldier of nonviolence, and I have evidence enough to sustain my faith.
By using violence to subjugate one another we are using violence against our own souls.
Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion.
A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat.
I cannot give active support in the war effort without denying a life-time of practice.
God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.
Hatred is not essential for nationalism. Race hatred will kill the real national spirit.
I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.
Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.
In a society based on nonviolence, the smallest nation will feel as tall as the tallest.