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There is a power now slumbering within us, which is awakened would do to evil what light does to darkness.
My own opinion is that just as fundamentally man and woman are one, their problems must be one in essence.
Indeed one's faith in one's plans and methods is truly tested when the horizon before one is the blackest.
Christianity in India is inextricably mixed up for the last hundred and fifty years with the British rule.
Buddha never rejected Hinduism, but he broadened its base. He gave it a new life and a new interpretation.
Through realization of freedom of India, I hope to realize and carry on the mission of brotherhood of man.
Freedom of India will demonstrate to all the exploited races of the earth that their freedom is very near.
If I were over full of pity for the cow, I should sacrifice my life to save her but not take my brother's.
Death is at any time blessed but it is twice blessed for a warrior who dies for his cause, that is, truth.
I eat to live, to serve, and also, if it so happens, to enjoy, but I do not eat for the sake of enjoyment.
Tolerance gives us spiritual insight, which is as far from fanaticism as the north pole is from the south.
Even a believer in nonviolence has to say between two combatants which is less bad or whose cause is just.
No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will.
My religion teaches me that a promise once made or a vow once taken for a worthy object may not be broken.
Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.
It is difficult for me to regard anyone who obeys no moral principle in his conduct to be a religious man.
Unless the charkha adds to your ahimsa and makes you stronger every day, your Gandhism is of little avail.
The path of bhakti, karma and love as expounded in the Gita leaves no room for the despising of man by man.
The world is big enough to satisfy everyones needs, but will always be too small to satisfy everyones greed
Forgive and forget, but never forget to forgive. You may find a happier heart is the key to a happier life.
What the two hands of the labourer can achieve, the capitalist will never get with all his gold and silver.
Love is needed to strengthen the weak; love becomes tyrannical when it exacts obedience from an unbeliever.
This feeling of helplessness in us has arisen from our deliberate dismissal of God from our common affairs.
A Swaraj government means a government established by the free joint will of Hindus, Mussalmans and others.
God demands nothing less than self - surrender as the price for the only real freedom that is worth having.
Swaraj means, a state such that we can maintain our separate existence without the presence of the English.
My heart rebels against any foreigner imposing on my country the peace which is here called Pax-Britannica.
Let us remember that we are all Indians eating Indian grain and salt, and living on the dumb Indian masses.
Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
Hinduism would not have been much of a religion if Rama had not steeled his heart against every temptation.
A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution.
A slave-holder cannot hold a slave without putting himself or his deputy in the cage for holding the slave.
A satyagrahi has always his minimum and it is this minimum that is wanted in connection with this struggle.
My respectful study of other religions has not abated my reverence for or my faith in the Hindu scriptures.
You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.
Study not man in his animal nature - man following the laws of the jungle - but study man in all his glory.
The end of nonviolent 'war' is always an agreement, never dictation, much less humiliation of the opponent.
It is my great misfortune that I have to measure your love by the money gifts you give for Daridranarayana.
My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."
If we have the khadi spirit in us, then we should surround ourselves with simplicity in every walk of life.
All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body.
I must fight unto the death the unholy attempt to impose British methods and British institutions on India.
My purpose is to describe experiments in the science ofsatyagraha and not at all to describe how good I am.
May not men earn their bread by intellectual labor? No, the needs of the body must be supplied by the body.
What God may have enabled me to do is but a repayment of debt, and he who repays a debt deserves no praise.
If we would be pure, if we would save Hinduism, we must rid ourselves of this poison of enforced widowhood.
The only praise I would like and treasure is the promotion of the activities to which my life is dedicated.
The sacred thread and the tuft of hair without a pure heart and a spirit of toleration do not make a Hindu.
There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.
My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.