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More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it.
Openness of mind strengthens the truth in us and removes the dross from it, if there is any.
God has enabled man to distinguish between his sister, his mother, his daughter and his wife.
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won.
The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies.
Hindu-Muslim unity, khaddar and removal of untouchability are to me the foundation of Swaraj.
I consider Western Christianity in its practical working a negation of Christ's Christianity.
Harshness is conquered by gentleness, hatred by love, lethargy by zeal and darkness by light.
What distinguishes man from the brute is his conscious striving to realise the spirit within.
The greatest menace to the world today is the growing, exploiting, irresponsible imperialism.
Man is the center of a circle without a circumference, except the one he creates for himself.
A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women
Suffering cheerfully endured, ceases to be suffering and is transmuted into an ineffable joy.
Carrying arms for the removal of the Arms Act can never fall under any scheme of nonviolence.
Nonviolence is an attribute of the Almighty whose ways of fulfilling Himself are inscrutable.
When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand.
Destruction of the churches and the like is not the way to Swaraj as defined by the Congress.
Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for.
We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings.
My national service is part of my training for freeing my soul from the bondage of the flesh.
It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine.
Life becomes livable only to the extent that death is treated as a friend, never as an enemy.
Nothing can be more hurtful to an honourable man than that he should be accused of bad faith.
Celibacy is a great help, inasmuch as it enables one to lead a life of full surrender to God.
Swaraj would be real Swaraj only when there would be no occasion for safeguarding any rights.
True religion being the greatest thing in life and in the world, has been exploited the most.
Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient.
I wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.
The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die.
The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
Sacrifice that causes pain is no sacrifice at all. True sacrifice is joy-giving and uplifting.
Diversity there certainly is in the world, but it means neither inequality nor untouchability.
It is a sad thing that our schoolboys look upon manual labour with disfavour, if not contempt.
Political power means the capacity to regulate national life through national representatives.
I do not regard killing or assassination or terrorism as good in any circumstances whatsoever.
If blood be shed, let it be our own. Let us cultivate the calm courage to die without killing.
To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act.
True education must correspond to the surrounding circumstances or it is not a healthy growth.
A devotee of Rama may be said to be the same as the steadfast one (sthitaprajnya) of the Gita.
If Gandhism means simply mechanically turning the spinning wheel, it deserves to be destroyed.
God of Truth and Justice can never create distinctions of high and low among His own children.
Bravery on the battlefield is impossible for us. Bravery of the soul still remains open to us.
You are not going to know the meaning of God or prayer unless you reduce yourself to a cipher.
For me there is a vital connection between the Bihar calamity and the untouchability campaign.
History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force.
Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.
If love or non-violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces.
Marriage is not an act of services. It is a comfort man or woman seeks for himself or herself.
God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth and He tries you through and through.