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Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

God rules even where Satan seems to hold sway, because the latter exists only on God's sufferance.

God has made of man and woman one complete whole. In the scheme of nature, both of them are equal.

God has so ordered this world that no one can keep his goodness or badness exclusively to himself.

As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist

My Hinduism must be a very poor thing if it cannot flourish even under the most adverse influence.

The power of nonviolent resistance can only come from honest working of the constructive programme.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

The still small voice within you must always be the final arbiter when there is a conflict of duty.

Today I know that physical training should have as much place in the curriculum as mental training.

All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.

Sorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily borne, but not if they are imposed.

When I don't understand something, I reach up and hold God's hand. And we walk together in silence.

The function of Nayee-Talim is not to teach an occupation, but through it to develop the whole man.

The Bhagavadgita is a gospel of non-co-operation between the forces of darkness and those of light.

A satyagrahi lays down his life, but never gives up. That is the meaning of the 'do or die' slogan.

Education is the basic tool for the development of consciousness and the reconstitution of society.

Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa.

When you are right,you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry.

Knowledge and devotion, to be true, have to stand the test of renunciation of the fruits of action.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

Renunciation is the central sun, round which devotion, knowledge and the rest revolve like planets.

Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence.

We shall make progress towards Swaraj only if we do everything thoughtfully and with understanding.

My nationalism is as broad as my swadeshi, I want India's rise so that the whole world may benefit.

Every labourer is worthy of his hire. No country can produce thousands of unpaid whole-time workers.

It is my unshakable belief that India's destiny is to deliver the message of nonviolence to mankind.

External fears cease of their own accord when once we have conquered these traitors within the camp.

The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary.

We cannot have real independence unless the people banish the touch-me-not spirit from their hearts.

Men to be men must be able to trust their womenfolk, even as the latter are compelled to trust them.

The Charkha is the symbol of nonviolence on which all life, if it is to be real life, must be based.

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

I don't reject Christ. I love Christ. It's just that so many of you Christians are so unlike Christ.

However virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India.

Is it not possible for us all to realize that the masses will never mount to freedom through murder?

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

A religion cannot be sustained by the number of its lip-followers denying in their lives its tenets.

I believe in advaita, I believe in the essential unity of man and for that matter of all that lives.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

Every expression of truth has in it the seeds of propagation, even as the sun cannot hide its light.

If we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place.

Economic equality of my conception does not mean that every one will literally have the same amount.

My ahimsa is my own. I am not able to accept in its entirety the doctrine of non-killing of animals.

Newspapers today have almost replaced the Bible, the Koran, the Gita and other religious scriptures.

The Khaddar of my conception is that handspun cloth entirely takes the place of mill cloth in India.

Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.

When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.

Responsibility will mellow and sober the youth and prepare them, for the burden they must discharge.

The idol in the temple is not God. But since God resides in every atom, He resides in that idol too.

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