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It was Ba's inspiration which helped me reach the heights of my inner self. She was my priceless jewel.
My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.
For every minute that I spin, there is in me the consciousness that I am adding to the nation's wealth.
The elephant needs a thousand times more food than the ant but that is not an indication of inequality.
The most distinctive and largest contribution of Hinduism to India's culture is the doctrine of ahimsa.
Tulsidas's Ramayana is a notable book because it is informed with the spirit of purity, pity and piety.
Ahimsa and Truth are so intertwined that it is practically impossible to disentangle and separate them.
In matters concerning religion, I consider myself not a child but an adult with 35 years of experience.
Tolstoy's so-called inconsistencies were a sign of his development and his passionate regard for truth.
My Swaraj will be not be a result of murder of others but a voluntary act of continuous self-sacrifice.
Woman is, by habit or nature, queen of the household. She is not designed to organize on a large scale.
No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred.
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.
Decency requires that when a programme is approved by the majority, all should carry it out faithfully.
If I could persuade myself that I could find Him in a Himalayan cave I would proceed there immediately.
Ahimsa must be placed before everything else while it is professed. Then alone it becomes irresistible.
If there is violence, it will certainly be crushed because violence can only end in a disgraceful rout.
Before we can aspire to guide the destinies of India, we shall have to adopt the habit of fearlessness.
The press is called the Fourth Estate. It is definitely a power, but, to misuse that power is criminal.
Not to believe in the possibility of permanent peace is to disbelieve in the Godliness of human nature.
Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect.
The Gita distinguishes between the powers of light and darkness and demonstrates their incompatibility.
Man's triumph will consist in substituting the struggle for existence by a struggle for mutual service.
My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest.
My conception of dominion status implies present ability to severe the British connection if I wish to.
Many could forgo heavy meals, a full wardrobe, a fine house, etcetera. It is the ego they cannot forgo.
People in a democracy should be satisfied with drawing the Government's attention to a mistake, if any.
Non-co-operators will make a serious mistake if they seek to convert people to their creed by violence.
No religion taught man to kill fellowmen because he held different opinions or was of another religion.
My nationalism, fierce though it is, is not exclusive, is not devised to harm any nation or individual.
Untouchability is a many-headed monster and forms, some of them so subtle as not to be easily detected.
It is a crime and a sin to regard a person as untouchable because he is born in a particular community.
Nonviolence, when it becomes active, travels with extraordinary velocity, and then it becomes a miracle.
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
I can no more preach nonviolence to a cowardly man than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.
Nothing in the Shastras, which is capable of being reasoned, can stand if it is in conflict with reason.
In a self-respecting India, is not every woman's virtue as much every man's concern as his own sister's?
I would rather have India reduced to a state of pauperism than have thousands of drunkards in our midst.
Moral restrictions tend to become lax in a foreign country, since the fear of social opinion disappears.
Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion.
Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views.
Nonviolent action without the co-operation of the heart and the head cannot produce the intended result.
You never know where your actions will lead to. But if you don't do anything they will lead you nowhere.
I am the only one, whom you may find it hard to get rid of, for I have always counted myself as a woman.
Khaddar was conceived with a much more ambitious object, that is, to make our villages starvation-proof.
God is the vital force or spirit which is all-pervading, all-embracing and, therefore, beyond human ken.
We are aware that the business of Swaraj will thrive only if the boycott of foreign cloth is successful.
A man like me cannot but believe that this earthquake is a divine chastisement sent by God for our sins.
Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.