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Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
It is nature's kindness that we do not remember past births. Life would be a burden if we carried such a tremendous load of memories.
In the days of democracy there is no such thing as active loyalty to a person. You are, therefore, loyal or disloyal to institutions.
To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face, one must be able to love the meanest of all creation as oneself.
To have a happy ending, choose a happy moment and call it 'the ending'. Honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune.
When the wheel was accepted as part of the national flag, it was surely implied that the spinning wheel would hum in every household.
He who gives up action falls. He who gives up the reward rises. But renunciation of fruit in no way means indifference to the result.
To kill these (rabid) dogs, in my opinion, amount to himsa, but I believe it to be inevitable if we are to escape much greater himsa.
Cent percent swadeshi gives sufficient scope for the most insatiable ambition for service and a satisfaction of every kind of talent.
Temples are like spiritual hospitals, and the sinful, who are spiritually diseased, have the first right to be ministered to by them.
Exercise of faith will be the safest where there is a clear determination summarily to reject all that is contrary to truth and love.
Running away for fear of death, leaving one's dear ones, temples or music to take care of themselves, is irreligion; it is cowardice.
Coal is not dear for the coal-miner who can use it there and then, nor is khadi dear for the villager who manufactures his own khadi.
Though a non-co-operator, I shall gladly subscribe to a bill to make it criminal for anybody to call me mahatma and to touch my feet.
Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness.
If the Commander-in-Chief will look beyond the defence forces, he will discover that the real India is not military but peace-loving.
All religions enjoined worship of the One God who is all-pervasive. He is present even in a drop of water or in a tiny speck of dust.
Nonviolence in the sense of mere non-killing does not appear to me, therefore, to be of any improvement on the technique of violence.
All religions are branches of the same mighty tree, but I must not change over from one branch to another for the sake of expediency.
Dharma is that which is enjoined by the holy books, followed by the sages, interpreted by the learned and which appeals to the heart.
The only way Hinduism can convert the whole world to cow-protection is by giving an object-lesson in cow-protection and all it means.
India must protect her primary industries even as a mother protects her children against the whole world without being hostile to it.
My idea of society is that while we are born equal, meaning that we have a right to equal opportunity, all have not the same capacity.
Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
A person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see his goal; he sees only his opposition and the obstacles before him.
It is impossible that God, who is the God of Justice, could have made the distinctions that men observe today in the name of religion.
All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
There is a vital connection between satyagraha and charkha, and the more I find that belief challenged, the more I am confirmed in it.
A satyagrahi must ceaselessly strive to realize and live truth. And he must never contemplate hurting anyone by thought, word or deed.
Do not crave to know the views of others, nor base your intent thereon. To think independently for yourself is a sign of fearlessness.
I have endeavored to show that there is no real service of humanity in the profession of medicine and that it is injurious to mankind.
Truth and nonviolence demand that no human being may debar himself from serving any other human being, no matter how sinful he may be.
If the circulation of blood theory could not have been discovered without vivisection, the human kind could well have done without it.
To one who reads the spirit of the Gita, it teaches the secret of nonviolence, the secret of realizing self through the physical body.
For thousands to do to death a few hundreds is no bravery. It is worse than cowardice. It is unworthy of nationalism, of any religion.
The safest rule of conduct is to claim kinship when we want to do service and not to insist on kinship when we want to assert a right.
Whatever may be true of the other modes of warfare, insatyagraha it has been held that the causes for failure are to be sought within.
We are all very imperfect and weak things, and if we are to destroy all whose ways we do not like, there will be not a man left alive.
Today, as it was 2,000 years ago, the Kingdom of God is within each of us. It is not within a church, a temple, a mosque or synagogue.
In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed.
The art that is in the machine-made article, appeals only to the eye; the art in Khadi appeals first to the heart and then to the eye.
For a nonviolent struggle, there is no age limit. The blind, the maimed and the bed-ridden may serve, and not only men but women also.
Never own defeat in a sacred cause and make up your minds henceforth that you will be pure and that you will find a response from God.
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
There is always the fear of self-righteousness possessing us, the fear of arrogating to ourselves a superiority that we do not possess.
If we want to cultivate a true spirit of democracy we cannot afford to be intolerant. Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can certainly take to physical labour.
Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses.
Boycott brought about anyhow of British cloth cannot yield the same results as such boycott brought about by hand-spinning and khaddar.