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People engaged in a war do not lose temper over matters which affect the fortunes of war.
Non-co-operation is the nation's notice that it is no longer satisfied to be in tutelage.
No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties.
There is no reason to believe that there is one law for families and another for nations.
For me the present is merged in eternity. I may not sacrifice the latter for the present.
I recognise no God except the God that is to be found in the hearts of the dumb millions.
A mind not set on God is given to wandering and lacks the quality of a temple of worship.
Naked violence repels like the naked skeleton shorn of flesh, blood and the velvety skin.
When the panchayat raj is established, public opinion will do what violence can never do.
Since nothing else that I see merely through the senses can or will persist, He alone is.
Every single act of one who would lead a life of purity should be in the nature of yajna.
Prayer has been the saviour of my life. Without it I should have been a lunatic long ago.
Let the content of Swaraj grow with the growth of national consciousness and aspirations.
Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience.
I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.
To find truth completely is to realize oneself and one's destiny, i.e. to become perfect.
How can I even secretly harbour the thought that my neighbour's faith is inferior to mine?
If you give me rice, I'll eat today; if you teach me how to grow rice, I'll eat every day.
Faith is not a delicate flower which would wither away under the slightest stormy weather.
Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.
There is enough for the need of everyone in this world, but not for the greed of everyone.
Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
We cannot be speakers who do not listen. But neither can we be listeners who do not speak.
Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help.
And he who would be friends with God must remain alone, or make the whole world his friend
Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.
Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave.
Unless our hands go hand in hand with our heads, we will be able to do nothing whatsoever.
A nation that is unfit to fight cannot, from experience, prove the virtue of not fighting.
Non-co-operation is an attempt to awaken the masses to a sense of their dignity and power.
For me nonviolence is a creed. I must act up to it, whether I am alone or have companions.
If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be
Khadi will cease to have any value in my eyes if it does not usefully employ the millions.
Though we are politically free, we are hardly free from the subtle domination of the West.
Reason has to be strengthened by suffering, and suffering opens the eyes of understanding.
It goes without saying that moderation and sobriety are of the very essence of vow-taking.
If you have faith in the cause and the means and in God, the hot sun will be cool for you.
The spirit of democracy cannot be superimposed from the outside. It must come from within.
The present war is the saturation point in violence. It spells, to my mind, also its doom.
Ramanama is for the pure at heart and for those who want to attain purity and remain pure.
To remove untouchability is a penance that caste Hindus owe to Hinduism and to themselves.
Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.
The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one.
Knowledge of the tallest scientist or the greatest spiritualist is like a particle of dust.
Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself
I believe that the yarn we spin is capable of mending the broken warp and woof of our life!
The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.
God chooses as His instrument the humblest and weakest of His creatures to fulfill Himself.
Nothing can so quickly put the masses on their legs as the spinning wheel and all it means.