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The renunciation of the Gita is the acid test of faith.
God does not punish directly. His ways are inscrutable.
Labour has its unique place in a cultured human family.
It is my firm faith that man is by nature going higher.
My satyagrahi spirit tells me that I may not retaliate.
A man who behaves like a beast is worse than the beast.
When you know the truth, the truth makes you a soldier.
God never occurs to you in person but always in action.
Mother cow expects from us nothing but grass and grain.
A slave has not the freedom even to do the right thing.
I like their Christ, but I don't like their Christians.
Civil disobedience is a preparation for mute suffering.
Fear is not a disease of the body; fear kills the soul.
I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man.
No one can ride on the back of a man unless it is bent.
Equality of sexes does not mean equality of occupations.
The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear.
Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.
The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime.
Social service that savours of patronage is not service.
Bravery is not a quality of the body. It is of the soul.
Non-co-operation is a nation's determination to improve.
I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace.
My dictionary has no such expression as a violent fight.
What better book can there be than the book of humanity.
Pure motives can never justify impure or violent action.
I believe in conversion of mankind, not its destruction.
I may have become Christian, were it not for Christians.
Capital exploits the labour of a few to multiply itself.
Truth stands for the fact, nonviolence negates the fact.
Civil disobedience can only lead to strength and purity.
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
True knowledge gives a moral standing and moral strength.
Imperfect men have no right to judge other imperfect men.
Don't let anybody walk through your mind with dirty feet.
If you want real peace in the world, start with children.
I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.
No man loses his freedom except through his own weakness.
It is pleasant that there will be no religions in heaven.
God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist.
True suffering does not know itself and never calculates.
Public opinion alone can keep a society pure and healthy.
The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy.
I will not be a traitor of God to please the whole world.
My love of the British is equal to that of my own people.
Hinduism has sinned in giving sanction to untouchability.
A satyagrahi is nothing if not instinctively law-abiding.
In any case, the fear of subservience is quite imaginary.
Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion.