Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The sky may be overcast today with clouds, but a fervent prayer to God is enough to dispel them.
I regard the constituent assembly as the substitute ofsatyagraha. It is constructive satyagraha.
The man has not the power to create life. Therefore, he has not either, the right to destroy it.
We must break through the provincial crust if we are to reach the core of all-India nationalism.
Reasoned and willing obedience to the laws of the State is the first lesson in non-co-operation.
My nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving the dear ones unprotected.
The golden rule to apply in all such cases is resolutely to refuse to have what millions cannot.
When you practice a life of non-violence you no longer need seek the truth, the truth finds you.
God has enabled me to affect the life of the country since 1920 without the necessity of office.
God is the source of Light and Life and yet He is above and beyond all these. God is conscience.
Close the day with prayer so that you may have a peaceful night free from dreams and nightmares.
A congregational prayer is a means for establishing essential human unity though common worship.
By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit.
Hindus, if they want unity among different races, must have the courage to trust the minorities.
A seeker of truth will never begin by discounting his opponent's statement as unworthy of trust.
The finite human being shall never know in its fullness Truth and Love which is itself infinite.
Begin your day with prayer, and make it so soulful that it may remain with you until the evening.
Violent means will give violent swaraj. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane.
Truthful movements spontaneously attract to themselves all manner of pure and disinterested help.
God has been described by all the scriptures of the world as protector and saviour of the sinner.
God is Light, not darkness. God is Love, not hate. God is truth, not untruth. God alone is great.
We may not go about parroting truth and nonviolence and steering clear of them in our daily life.
Unless you go on discovering new applications of the law of nonviolence, you do not profit by it.
My creed of nonviolence does not favour the punishment of thieves and dacoits and even murderers.
The world easily finds an honourable place for the magician who produces new and dazzling things.
Birth-control through self-restraint is the most desirable, sensible and totally harmless method.
Appreciation of nonviolence means patient research and still more patient and difficult practice.
Mortification of the flesh has been held all the world over as a condition of spiritual progress.
If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further.
That which you look upon as your own you may keep only so long as the world allows you to own it.
If Britain were honest, which I dispute, she would then embrace all nations on terms of equality.
I find a solace a in the Bhagavadgita and Upanishads that I miss even in the Sermon on the Mount.
For a firm believer in swadeshi, there need be no Pharisaical self-satisfaction in wearing khadi.
They might kill me but they cannot kill Gandhism. If truth can be killed, Gandhism can be killed.
There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.
India's freedom will not be won by violence but only by the purest suffering without retaliation.
Since the propagation of nonviolence is the mission of my life, I must pursue it in all weathers.
The external is in no way the essence of religion, but the external often proclaims the internal.
Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest.
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist
Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
Robust faith in oneself and brave trust of the opponent, so called or real, is the best safeguard.
The message of khaddar can penetrate to the remotest villages if we only will that it shall be so.
Man is the maker of his own destiny, and I therefore ask you to become makers of your own destiny.
It only confirms me in my belief that there is no Swaraj without a settlement with the Mussalmans.
There is no distrust of men and mankind in me. They will answer before God, so why should I worry?
God rules even where Satan seems to hold sway, because the latter exists only on God's sufferance.
Crime and vice generally require darkness for prowling. They disappear when light plays upon them.