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Civil disobedience can only lead to strength and purity.
The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace.
Equality of sexes does not mean equality of occupations.
My dictionary has no such expression as a violent fight.
What better book can there be than the book of humanity.
The votary of ahimsa has only one fear, that is, of God.
We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime.
Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.
Pure motives can never justify impure or violent action.
Non-co-operation is a nation's determination to improve.
I believe in conversion of mankind, not its destruction.
The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear.
Capital exploits the labour of a few to multiply itself.
Love is the basis of our friendship as it is of religion.
The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.
I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.
I do not want India to rise on the ruin of other nations.
Satyagraha as conceived by me is a science in the making.
No man loses his freedom except through his own weakness.
It is pleasant that there will be no religions in heaven.
In any case, the fear of subservience is quite imaginary.
Public opinion alone can keep a society pure and healthy.
My love of the British is equal to that of my own people.
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy.
You can judge a society by the way it treats it's animals
What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated?
God turns His back on those who quarrel among themselves.
Islam was nothing if it did not spell complete democracy.
Without real nonviolence, there would be perfect anarchy.
Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion.
A satyagrahi is nothing if not instinctively law-abiding.
True knowledge gives a moral standing and moral strength.
Imperfect men have no right to judge other imperfect men.
God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist.
Don't let anybody walk through your mind with dirty feet.
True suffering does not know itself and never calculates.
Hinduism has sinned in giving sanction to untouchability.
If you want real peace in the world, start with children.
Nonviolence is a quality not of the body but of the soul.
I will not be a traitor of God to please the whole world.
I know that I can never be alone as God is there with me.
True nonviolence is mightier than the mightiest violence.
Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
Islam appeals to people because it appeals also to reason.
Our children should not be so taught as to despise labour.
An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
It was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it.
Behaviour is the mirror in which we can display our image.