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Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
The more I reflect and look back on the past, the more vividly do I feel my limitations.
The best way of losing a cause is to abuse your opponent and to trade upon his weakness.
A faith gained in strength only when people were willing to lay down their lives for it.
Nature can provide for the needs of people; [she] can't provide for the greed of people.
Liberty is a dearly bought commodity and prisons are factories where it is manufactured.
The process of learning should be as far as possible a pleasurable one and not laborious
The English language is so elastic that you can find another word to say the same thing.
God makes crooked straight for us and sets things right when they seem to go dead wrong.
Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction.
We dare not enter the kingdom of liberty with mere life-homage to truth and nonviolence.
A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate.
Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life.
Personally I like to believe that all become honest, the millennium is round the corner!
A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature.
God has blessed me with the mission to place nonviolence before the nation for adoption.
Dharma is one and one only. Ahimsa means moksha, and moksha is the realization of Truth.
There is no better way of industrializing the villages of India than the spinning wheel.
Even swadeshi, like any other good thing, can be ridden to death if it is made a fetish.
I have no other wish in this world but to find light and joy and peace through Hinduism.
Think of the poorest person you know and see if your next act will be of any use to him.
This civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed.
Nonviolence is not a cloistered virtue, confined only to the rishi and the cave-dweller.
The socialistic conception of the West was born in an environment reeking with violence.
Every calamity should lead to a thorough cleansing of individual as well as social life.
Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent.
Total nonviolent non-cooperation has no place in popular Raj, whatever its level may be.
Religion is entirely a personal matter. Each one could approach his Creator as he liked.
Those who cannot renounce attachment to the results of their work are far from the path.
We shall dig our own grave if we do not purge ourselves of this curse of untouchability.
Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.
If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth, you must reduce yourself to a zero.
The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members
A woman's intuition has often proved truer than a man's arrogant assumption of knowledge.
Hinduism loses its right to make a universal appeal if it closes its temples to Harijans.
I do regard spinning and weaving as a necessary part of any national system of education.
To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice.
Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.
That nonviolence which only an individual can use is not of much use in terms of society.
To my mind, Swaraj based on nonviolence is the fulfillment of the constructive programme.
Rights of true citizenship accrue only to those who serve the State to which they belong.
Disorder and violence are, in fact, things that might check the pace of India's progress.
Some form of common worship and a common place of worship appear to be a human necessity.
For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence.
No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation.
No confirmed satyagrahi is dismayed by dangers, seen or unseen, from his opponent's side.
Time is wealth, and the Gita says the Great Annihilator annihilates those who waste time.
Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself.
With my meager knowledge of my own religion I do not want to belong to any religious body
The spinning wheel is not meant to oust a single man or woman from his or her occupation.