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The art of dying bravely and with honour does not need any special training, save a living faith in God.
Nonviolent action without the co-operation of the heart and the head cannot produce the intended result.
God is the vital force or spirit which is all-pervading, all-embracing and, therefore, beyond human ken.
I am the only one, whom you may find it hard to get rid of, for I have always counted myself as a woman.
Nothing in the Shastras, which is capable of being reasoned, can stand if it is in conflict with reason.
So far as I can see the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained mankind for ages.
He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa.
In a self-respecting India, is not every woman's virtue as much every man's concern as his own sister's?
I would rather have India reduced to a state of pauperism than have thousands of drunkards in our midst.
Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion.
Nonviolence, when it becomes active, travels with extraordinary velocity, and then it becomes a miracle.
I can no more preach nonviolence to a cowardly man than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.
Moral restrictions tend to become lax in a foreign country, since the fear of social opinion disappears.
We are aware that the business of Swaraj will thrive only if the boycott of foreign cloth is successful.
India is essentially a karmabhumi (land of duty) in contradistinction to bhogabhumi (land of enjoyment).
For a non-violent person the whole world is one family. He will thus fear none, nor will others fear him.
Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.
One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals.
Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
Literary education must follow the education of the hand -the one gift that distinguishes man from beast.
I do regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism are.
God the Compassionate and the Merciful, Tolerance incarnate, allows Mammon to have his nine days' wonder.
I want India to come into her own and that state cannot be better defined by any single word than Swaraj.
I must declare that it is better for India do discard violence altogether even for defending her borders.
My soul refuses to be satisfied so long as it is a helpless witness of a single wrong or a single misery.
You are no Satyagrahi if you remain silent or passive spectators while your enemy is being done to death.
Economics that hurt the moral well-being of an individual or a nation are immoral and, therefore, sinful.
For a fallen India to aspire to move the world and protect the weaker races is seemingly an impertinence.
Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise.
My Rama, the Rama of our prayers, is not the historical Rama, the son of Dasharatha, the king of Ayodhya.
I have described Swaraj as Ramarajya and Ramarajya is an impossibility unless we have thousands of Sitas.
The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.
The Indian struggle is not anti-British, it is anti-exploitation, anti-foreign rule, not anti-foreigners.
We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.
All our philosophy is as dry as dust if it is not immediately translated into some act of living service.
The call of the spinning wheel is the noblest of all. Because it is the call of love. And love is Swaraj.
Satyagraha and civil disobedience and fasts have nothing in common with the use of force, veiled or open.
Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire.
The right to err, which means the freedom to try experiments, is the universal condition of all progress.
It is necessary first to purify the drunken and dissolute worshippers in charge of some of these temples.
Hindu religious literature, indeed all religious literature, is full of illustrations to prove the truth.
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness.
Confession of one's guilt purifies and uplifts. Its suppression is degrading and should always be avoided.
To me I seem to be constantly growing. I must respond to varying conditions, yet remain changeless within.
One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.
There being no absolute and universal standard of right, terrorism must be held to be wrong in every case.
My effort should never be to undermine another's faith but to make him a better follower of his own faith.
If you want to play your part in the world's affairs, you must refuse to deck yourselves for pleasing man.