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If intellect plays a large part in the field of violence, I hold that it plays a larger part in the field of nonviolence.
No stone should be left unturned to bring home to the family members that untouchability is a sin and a blot on Hinduism.
Satan mostly employs comparatively moral instruments and the language of ethics to give his aims an air of respectability.
Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood.
Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.
I have made the world's faith in God my own and as my faith is effaceable, I regard that faith as amounting to experience.
Education without courage is like a wax statue - beautiful to look at but bound to melt at the first touch of a hot stuff.
Purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one's surroundings.
A man who is intentionally unarmed relies upon the Unseen Force called God by poets, but called the Unknown by scientists.
If Swaraj is to be had by peaceful methods, it will only be attained by attention to every little detail of national life.
In the East, as in the West, newspapers are fast becoming people's Bible, Koran, Zend-Avesta and Gita all rolled into one.
Non -violence is infinitely superior to violence , forgiveness is more manly than punishment. Forgiveness is the ornament.
Non-co-operation intended to pave the way to real honourable and voluntary co-operation based on mutual respect and trust.
The use of soul-force for turning stones into bread would have been considered, as it is still considered, as black magic.
A society or a nation constructed nonviolently must be able to withstand attack upon its structure from without or within.
The fullest life is impossible without an immovable belief in a Living Law in obedience to which the whole universe moves.
Everyone wants to be strong and self sufficient, but few are willing to put in the work necessary to achieve worthy goals.
The nonviolence I teach is active nonviolence of the strongest. But the weakest can partake in it without becoming weaker.
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
Religion is one tree with many branches. As branches, you may say, religions are many, but as a tree, religion is only one.
Do not flatter yourselves with the belief that a mere recital of that celebrated verse in St. John makes a man a Christian.
All I want to say, with the utmost emphasis at my command, is that the description of India as a military country is wrong.
A satyagrahi has no other stay but God, and he who has any other stay or depends on any other help cannot offer satyagraha.
Man in the flesh is essentially imperfect. He may be described as being made in the image of God but is far from being God.
Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
Britain's success in the exploitation of non-European races raised the ambition of Bismarck and later Mussolini and others.
To say that a single human being, because of his birth, becomes an untouchable, unapproachable or invisible is to deny God.
Independence of my conception means nothing less than the realization of the "Kingdom of God" within you and on this earth.
The early Mussalmans accepted Islam not because they knew it to be revealed but because it appealed to their virgin reason.
I can neither serve God nor humanity if as an Indian I do not serve India, and as a Hindu I do not serve Indian Mussalmans.
Ours is a civil fight, and imprisonment as a civil prisoner has got to be earned by the strict observance of the programme.
To a people famishing and idle, the only acceptable form in which God can dare appear is work and promise of food as wages.
Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty.
Out of the performance of duties flow rights, and those that knew and performed their duties came naturally by their rights.
Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.
I learned from Hussain how to be wronged and be a winner, I learnt from Hussain how to attain victory while being oppressed.
I honor the place within you where, when you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us.
Whomsoever you follow, howsoever great, see to it that you follow the spirit of the master and not imitate him mechanically.
The taking of vows that are not feasible or that are beyond one's capacity would betray thoughtlessness and want of balance.
Non-co-operation and civil disobedience in terms of Swaraj are not to be thought of without substantial constructive effort.
We cry for cow protection in the name of religion, but we refuse protection to the human cow in the shape of the girl-widow.
Life will not be a pyramid with the apex sustained by the bottom, but an oceanic circle whose centre will be the individual.
A rose will smell as sweet by any other name, but it must be the rose of liberty that I want and not the artificial product.
There is every reason for being cautious about founding new universities till India has digested Her newly acquired freedom.
A free India will throw all her weight in favour of world disarmament and should herself be prepared to give a lead in this.
Khaddar is an attempt to revise and reverse the process and establish a better relationship between the cities and villages.
Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power.
What is truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the 'voice within' tells you.
Much that we hug today as knowledge is ignorance pure and simple. It makes the mind wander and even reduces it to a vacuity.