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It is wonderful, if we chose the right diet, what an extraordinarily small quantity would suffice.

If you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold.

No displeasure, even of the dearest friends, can put me off the duty I see clearly in front of me.

I shall never know God if I do not wrestle with and against evil, even at the cost of life itself.

Means are not to be distinguished from ends. If violent means are used, there will be bad results.

Violence is bound sooner or later to exhaust itself but peace cannot issue out of such exhaustion.

Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence.

God has made of man and woman one complete whole. In the scheme of nature, both of them are equal.

God has so ordered this world that no one can keep his goodness or badness exclusively to himself.

My Hinduism must be a very poor thing if it cannot flourish even under the most adverse influence.

No Indian who aspires to follow the way of true religion can afford to remain aloof from politics.

Ashram means a community of men of religion. I feel that an ashram was a necessity of life for me.

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

The function of Nayee-Talim is not to teach an occupation, but through it to develop the whole man.

Knowledge and devotion, to be true, have to stand the test of renunciation of the fruits of action.

Renunciation is the central sun, round which devotion, knowledge and the rest revolve like planets.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

Education is the basic tool for the development of consciousness and the reconstitution of society.

When you are right,you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

We shall make progress towards Swaraj only if we do everything thoughtfully and with understanding.

The Bhagavadgita is a gospel of non-co-operation between the forces of darkness and those of light.

A satyagrahi lays down his life, but never gives up. That is the meaning of the 'do or die' slogan.

The still small voice within you must always be the final arbiter when there is a conflict of duty.

My nationalism is as broad as my swadeshi, I want India's rise so that the whole world may benefit.

Today I know that physical training should have as much place in the curriculum as mental training.

Sorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily borne, but not if they are imposed.

All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.

Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence.

When I don't understand something, I reach up and hold God's hand. And we walk together in silence.

Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa.

The power of nonviolent resistance can only come from honest working of the constructive programme.

Economic equality of my conception does not mean that every one will literally have the same amount.

Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.

Every labourer is worthy of his hire. No country can produce thousands of unpaid whole-time workers.

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

I don't reject Christ. I love Christ. It's just that so many of you Christians are so unlike Christ.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

Responsibility will mellow and sober the youth and prepare them, for the burden they must discharge.

External fears cease of their own accord when once we have conquered these traitors within the camp.

We cannot have real independence unless the people banish the touch-me-not spirit from their hearts.

When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.

I believe in advaita, I believe in the essential unity of man and for that matter of all that lives.

Newspapers today have almost replaced the Bible, the Koran, the Gita and other religious scriptures.

My ahimsa is my own. I am not able to accept in its entirety the doctrine of non-killing of animals.

I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence.

The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary.

The Charkha is the symbol of nonviolence on which all life, if it is to be real life, must be based.

However virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India.

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