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A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed.
One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
We become Godlike to the extent we realize nonviolence, but we can never become wholly God.
I would risk violence a thousand times rather than risk the emasculation of the whole race.
Mine is not a religion of the prison-house. It has room for the least among God's creation.
Yajna is duty to be performed, or service to be rendered, all twenty-four hours of the day.
I hold that without truth and nonviolence there can be nothing but destruction of humanity.
If it is man's privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter - dependent.
Men like me feel that untouchability is no integral part of Hinduism, it is an excrescence.
God created man to work for his food and said that those who ate without work were thieves.
The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
Without an unreserved surrender to His grace, complete mastery over thoughts is impossible.
The meticulous care for the rights of the least among us is the sin qua non of nonviolence.
The restoration of free speech, free association and free press is almost the whole Swaraj.
There is no time limit for a satyagrahi nor is there a limit to his capacity for suffering.
I see neither bravery nor sacrifice in destroying life or property, for offense or defense.
He who spins before the poor, inviting them to do likewise, serves God as no one else does.
I would ask you to come in Khadi, for Khadi links you with the fallen and the down-trodden.
The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that, too, unconditional assistance.
He who would in his own person test the fact of God's presence can do so by a living faith.
If God is vast and boundless as the ocean, how can a tiny drop like man imagine what He is?
I must not refrain from saying that India can gain more by waiving the right of punishment.
A seeker after truth, a follower of the law of Love, cannot hold anything against tomorrow.
You can return blow for blow if you are not brave enough to follow the path of nonviolence.
Let me say that God will send me the plan when He gives the word as He has done before now.
Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.
We must always seek to ally ourselves with that part of the enemy that knows what is right.
Faith is not imparted like secular subjects. It is given through the language of the heart.
When you want to find Truth as God, the only inevitable means is love, that is nonviolence.
Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.
The world is changing every moment, and is therefore unreal. It has non permanent existence.
The way of peace is the way of truth. Truthfulness is even more important than peacefulness.
Self-defense...is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation.
Wherever flaxseeds become a regular food item among the people, there will be better health.
Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason.
Hinduism dies if untouchability lives, and untouchability has to die if Hinduism is to live.
My implicit faith in nonviolence does mean yielding to minorities when they are really weak.
I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.
Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
I know that man who forsakes Truth can forsake his country and his nearest and dearest ones.
Ravana was a rakshasa but this rakshasi of untouchability is even more terrible than Ravana.
Withholding of payment of taxes is one of the quickest methods of overthrowing a government.
I believe that there is no prayer without fasting, and there is no real fast without prayer.
Khadi service, village service and Harijan service are one in reality, though three in name.
What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.
The bomb-throwers have discredited the cause of freedom, in whose name they threw the bombs.
I worship the God that is Truth or Truth which is God through the service of these millions.
My dharma teaches me to give my life for the sake of others without even attempting to kill.
Those who have their hands dyed deep in blood cannot build a nonviolent order for the world.
Purification is never for the selfishly idle, it accrues only to the selflessly industrious.