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Those who are truthful, nonviolent and brave do not cease to be so because of the stupidity of their leader.
Truth is self-evident, nonviolence is its maturest fruit. It is contained in truth, but is not self-evident.
Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life.
True ahimsa should mean a complete freedom from ill-will and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all.
If it is by force that we wish to achieve Swaraj, let us drop nonviolence and offer such violence as we may.
Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law.
In the characteristics of the perfected man of the Gita, I do not see any to correspond to physical warfare.
I still somehow or other fancy that "my philosophy" represents the true meaning of the teaching of the Gita.
Non-co-operation enables us to show that in everything that matters we can be independent of the Government.
Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.
Great causes cannot be served by intellectual equipment alone, they call for spiritual effort of soul-force.
Of all the black crimes that humanity is committing against the great Creation, vivisection is the blackest.
A true and nonviolent combination of labour would act like a magnet attracting to it all the needed capital.
One has to speak out and stand up for one's convictions. Inaction at a time of conflagration is inexcusable.
Nonviolence is an active force of the highest order. It is soul force or the power of the godhead within us.
Freedom of worship, even of public speech, would become a farce if interference became the order of the day.
All have not the same capacity. I would allow a man of intellect to earn more, I would not cramp his talent.
Those who are lacking in bhakti (devotion), lacking in faith, are ill qualified to interpret the scriptures.
The life of millions is my politics, from which I dare not free myself without denying my life-work and God.
The dry knowledge of the three R's is not even now, it can never be, a permanent part of the villagers' life.
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
Blaming the wolf would not help the sheep much. The sheep must learn not to fall in the clutches of the wolf.
Religious truth, or for that matter any truth, requires a calm and meditative atmosphere for its percolation.
Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.
With every true friendship, we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests.
Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
The only real and reliable guarantee for khadi would be honesty, truthfulness and sincerity of khadi workers.
As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.
I am not likely to obtain the result flowing from the worship of God by laying myself prostrate before Satan.
A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him.
The object of the Gita appears to me to be that of showing the most excellent way to attain self-realization.
A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.
I literally believe in the possibility of a Sudhanva smiling away whilst he was being drowned in boiling oil.
I will not have the power of nonviolence to be underestimated in order to cover my limitations or weaknesses.
Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.
Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation.
I suffer snakes to be killed in the ashram when it is impossible to catch them and put them out of harm's way.
If a man voluntarily allows himself to be crushed, he yields the oil of moral energy which sustains the world.
Islam stands for the unity and brotherhood of mankind, and not for disrupting the oneness of the human family.
The measure of a country's greatness should be based on how well it cares for its most vulnerable populations.
Rama was not only on the lips of Hanuman. He was enthroned in his heart. He gave Hanuman exhaustless strength.
The whole world is like the human body with its various members. Pain in one member is felt in the whole body.
The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton.
A man or a woman who serves the country with all his or her heart stands on par with the tallest Congress-man.
No power on earth can resist the lovers of liberty who are ready not to kill opponents, but be killed by them.
Undoubtedly, prayer requires a living faith in God. Successful satyagraha is inconceivable without that faith.
A genuine fast cleanses the body, mind and soul. It crucifies the flesh and to that extent sets the soul free.
My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.
A samagra gramsevak must know everybody living in the village and render them such service as he possibly can.