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The lives of Zoroaster, Jesus and Mohammed, as I have understood them, have illumined many a passage in the Gita.
The practice of truth and nonviolence melted religious differences, and we learnt to see beauty in each religion.
A satyagrahi would neither retaliate nor would he submit to the criminal, but seek to cure him by curing himself.
Blind adoration, in the age of action, is perfectly valueless, is often embarrassing and, equally, often painful.
Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.
Let our first act each morning be the following resolve: I shall not fear anyone on Earth. I shall fear only God.
Non-co-operation in the political field is an extension of the doctrine as it is practised in the domestic field.
The force of the spirit is ever progressive and endless. Its full expression makes it unconquerable in the world.
The spirit of democracy... requires change of the heart... requires the inculcation of the spirit of brotherhood.
A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation.
The snakes have their place in the agricultural economy of the village, but our villagers do not seem realize it.
Jesus never uttered a loftier or a grander truth than when he said that wisdom cometh out of the mouths of babes.
Nothing depends upon the death of an individual, be he ever so great, but much depends upon the freedom of India.
But the fact that I had learnt to be tolerant to other religions did not mean that I had any living faith in God.
Violence will prevail over violence, only when someone can prove to me that darkness can be dispelled by darkness
Even the most sublime ideas sound ridiculous if heard too often. Be the change that you want to see in the world.
Whatever else India may not be, she is at least one thing, She is the greatest storehouse of spiritual knowledge.
In a plan of life based on nonviolence, woman has as much right to shape her own destiny as man has to shape his.
According to the letter of the Gita, it is possible to say that warfare is consistent with renunciation of fruit.
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
A genuine satyagraha should never excite contempt in the opponent even when it fails to command regard or respect.
No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world.
There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it.
It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world.
Our struggle does not end so long as there is a single human being considered untouchable on account of his birth.
I have repeatedly stated that satyagraha never fails and that one perfect satyagrahi is enough to vindicate Truth.
There is only one God for us all, whether we find him through the Koran, the Zend-Avesta, The Tolmud, or the Gita.
I have recognized that the nation has the right, if it so wills, to vindicate her freedom even by actual violence.
India's way is not Europe's. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages.
Satyagraha thrives on repression till at last the repressor is tired of it and the object of satyagraha is gained.
God Himself has reserved no right of revision of His own laws nor is there any need for Him for any such revision.
Swaraj, without any qualifying clause, includes that which is better than the best one can conceive or have today.
Without proper, careful organisation of the spinning wheel and khaddar, there is absolutely no civil disobedience.
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.
Human nature will find itself only when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or brutal.
Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
The Charkha is the symbol of sacrifice, and sacrifice is essential for the establishment of the image of the deity.
Organization of khaddar is infinitely better than co-operative societies or any other form of village organization.
Compulsory obedience to a master is a state of slavery, willing obedience to one's father is the glory of son ship.
It is better to be charged with cowardice and weakness than to be guilty of denial of our oath and sin against God.
I have shut my mind against nothing and I am a friend of Great Britain. I always have been. I have no axe to grind.
Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.
I have felt that the Gita teaches us that what cannot be followed in day-to-day practice cannot be called religion.
I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.
Do not concentrate on showing the misdeeds of the government, for we have to convert and befriend those who run it.
I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.