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The idol in the temple is not God. But since God resides in every atom, He resides in that idol too.

It is my unshakable belief that India's destiny is to deliver the message of nonviolence to mankind.

Men to be men must be able to trust their womenfolk, even as the latter are compelled to trust them.

Every expression of truth has in it the seeds of propagation, even as the sun cannot hide its light.

The cause is everything. Those even who are dearest to us must be shunted for the sake of the cause.

Every person in a well-ordered state is fully conscious of both his responsibilities and his rights.

The Khaddar of my conception is that handspun cloth entirely takes the place of mill cloth in India.

Is it not possible for us all to realize that the masses will never mount to freedom through murder?

A religion cannot be sustained by the number of its lip-followers denying in their lives its tenets.

If we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place.

You cannot succeed in one department of life while cheating on another, life is an indivisible whole.

Let us give today first the vital things of life and all the grace and ornaments of life will follow.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

Love is a rare herb that makes a friend even of a sworn enemy and this herb grows out of nonviolence.

I condemn, for all climes and for all times, secret murders and unfair methods even for a fair cause.

All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.

A man can give up a right, but he may not give up a duty without being guilty of a grave dereliction.

It is indeed a million times better to appear untrue before the world than to be untrue to ourselves.

All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation.

God will cease to be God, if he brought into being a single person with the hall-mark of inferiority.

God always saves the world from the consequences of unintended errors of men who live in fear of Him.

Khadi work without the mastery of the science of khadi will be love's labour lost in terms of Swaraj.

It is a travesty of true religion to consider one's own religion as superior and other's as inferior.

Khadi mentality means decentralization of the production and distribution of the necessaries of life.

God is omnipresent; even a pebble in the Narmada can represent Him and serve as an object of worship.

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself?

Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties.

The moment the cultivators of the soil realize their power, the evil of Zamindari will be sterilized.

I will say that if there is anything like God Or Truth on earth, Hindu-Muslim unity is also possible.

If I arrogate to myself the exclusive title of being in the right, I usurp the function of the Deity.

Every moment of my existence is dedicated to the winning of Swaraj by means of truth and nonviolence.

Our prayer is a heart search. It is a reminder to ourselves that we are helpless without His support.

To reject the necessity of temples is to reject the necessity of God, religion and earthly existence.

If Britain wins wholly, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and perhaps even Bolshevik Russia will disappear.

You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.

Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.

Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society.

Mankind is one, seeing that all are equally subject to the moral law. All men are equal in God's eyes.

I would rather drown myself in the waters of the Sabarmati than harbour hate or animosity in my heart.

My religion enables me, obliges me to imbibe all that is good in all the great religions of the earth.

Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you.

The Charkha is intended to realize the essential and living oneness of interest among India's myriads.

I have pinned my faith to the spinning wheel. On it, I believe, the salvation of this country depends.

I would not sell the vital interests of the untouchables for the sake of winning the freedom of India.

Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world.

Study men laying down their lives without hurting anyone else in the cause of their country's freedom.

Let the villages of the future live in our imagination, so that we might one day come to live in them!

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