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Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for.
True religion being the greatest thing in life and in the world, has been exploited the most.
When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand.
Destruction of the churches and the like is not the way to Swaraj as defined by the Congress.
It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine.
Life becomes livable only to the extent that death is treated as a friend, never as an enemy.
God has enabled man to distinguish between his sister, his mother, his daughter and his wife.
I consider Western Christianity in its practical working a negation of Christ's Christianity.
Carrying arms for the removal of the Arms Act can never fall under any scheme of nonviolence.
The greatest menace to the world today is the growing, exploiting, irresponsible imperialism.
Nothing can be more hurtful to an honourable man than that he should be accused of bad faith.
Man is the center of a circle without a circumference, except the one he creates for himself.
We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings.
A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women
Harshness is conquered by gentleness, hatred by love, lethargy by zeal and darkness by light.
Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient.
Nonviolence is an attribute of the Almighty whose ways of fulfilling Himself are inscrutable.
I wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.
My national service is part of my training for freeing my soul from the bondage of the flesh.
The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies.
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won.
It is a sad thing that our schoolboys look upon manual labour with disfavour, if not contempt.
Sacrifice that causes pain is no sacrifice at all. True sacrifice is joy-giving and uplifting.
A devotee of Rama may be said to be the same as the steadfast one (sthitaprajnya) of the Gita.
If Gandhism means simply mechanically turning the spinning wheel, it deserves to be destroyed.
The fragrance of religious and spiritual life is much finer and subtler than that of the rose.
Prayer can come in only when fasting has done its work. It can make fasting easy and bearable.
Prayer is no mere exercise of words or of the ears, it is no mere repetition of empty formula.
Prayer is the only means of bringing about orderliness and peace and repose in our daily acts.
A prayerful study and experience are essential for a correct interpretation of the scriptures.
The message of Jesus has proved ineffective because the environment was unready to receive it.
To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act.
God of Truth and Justice can never create distinctions of high and low among His own children.
The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die.
Political power means the capacity to regulate national life through national representatives.
He who atones for sins never calculates; he pours out the whole essence of his contrite heart.
For me there is a vital connection between the Bihar calamity and the untouchability campaign.
History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force.
Bravery on the battlefield is impossible for us. Bravery of the soul still remains open to us.
The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
Diversity there certainly is in the world, but it means neither inequality nor untouchability.
Marriage is not an act of services. It is a comfort man or woman seeks for himself or herself.
I do not regard killing or assassination or terrorism as good in any circumstances whatsoever.
True education must correspond to the surrounding circumstances or it is not a healthy growth.
God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth and He tries you through and through.
Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.
You are not going to know the meaning of God or prayer unless you reduce yourself to a cipher.
If love or non-violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces.
If blood be shed, let it be our own. Let us cultivate the calm courage to die without killing.
God is known by many names. And in the last analysis God's names were as many as human beings.