Top quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment. Votes: 51

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. Votes: 32

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver. Votes: 28

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature. Votes: 27

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm. Votes: 26

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts. Votes: 26

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God. Votes: 25

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal. Votes: 24

I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek - I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man. Votes: 22

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment. Votes: 21

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following. Votes: 21

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. Votes: 18

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith. Votes: 16

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages. Votes: 16

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart. Votes: 15

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up. Votes: 14

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. Votes: 14

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man. Votes: 14

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause. Votes: 14

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac. Votes: 12

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances. Votes: 11

Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies. Votes: 10

Non-violence is the article of faith. Votes: 10

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope. Votes: 9

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into. Votes: 9

Peace is its own reward. Votes: 8

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children. Votes: 7

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. Votes: 7

Fear has its use but cowardice has none. Votes: 6

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith. Votes: 4

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. Votes: 0

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience. Votes: 0

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever. Votes: 0

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. Votes: 0

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself. Votes: 0

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living? Votes: 0

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is. Votes: 0

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion. Votes: 0

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion. Votes: 0

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison. Votes: 0

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion. Votes: 0

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world. Votes: 0

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different. Votes: 0

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's. Votes: 0

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray. Votes: 0

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him. Votes: 0

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent. Votes: 0

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth. Votes: 0

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business. Votes: 0

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him. Votes: 0

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. Votes: 0

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people. Votes: 0

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Votes: 0

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible. Votes: 0

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. Votes: 0

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh. Votes: 0

Morality is contraband in war. Votes: 0

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity. Votes: 0

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained. Votes: 0

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening. Votes: 0

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom. Votes: 0

I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice. Votes: 0

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. Votes: 0

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems. Votes: 0

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. Votes: 0

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him. Votes: 0

I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection. Votes: 0

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act. Votes: 0

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task. Votes: 0

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust. Votes: 0

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul. Votes: 0

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace. Votes: 0

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice. Votes: 0

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. Votes: 0

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education. Votes: 0

Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness. Votes: 0

Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within. Votes: 0

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory. Votes: 0

Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners. Votes: 0

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless. Votes: 0

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future. Votes: 0

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man. Votes: 0

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth. Votes: 0

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her. Votes: 0

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy. Votes: 0

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body. Votes: 0

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. Votes: 0

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Votes: 0

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind. Votes: 0

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator. Votes: 0

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. Votes: 0

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up. Votes: 0

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up. Votes: 0

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another. Votes: 0

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves. Votes: 0

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear. Votes: 0

Where love is, there God is also. Votes: 0

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated. Votes: 0

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position. Votes: 0

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth. Votes: 0

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained. Votes: 0

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness. Votes: 0

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle. Votes: 0

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study. Votes: 0

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. Votes: 0

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. Votes: 0

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless. Votes: 0

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop. Votes: 0

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be. Votes: 0

I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force. Votes: 0

I am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom.' Votes: 0

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful? Votes: 0

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take. Votes: 0

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it. Votes: 0

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness. Votes: 0

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. Votes: 0

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people. Votes: 0

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts. Votes: 0

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame. Votes: 0

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it. Votes: 0

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment. Votes: 0

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power. Votes: 0

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared. Votes: 0

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity. Votes: 0

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes. Votes: 0

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty. Votes: 0

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings. Votes: 0

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy? Votes: 0

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment. Votes: 0

Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a whole nation of arms as the blackest. Votes: 0

jika sebuah mata harus dibalas dengan sebuah mata, hanya akan membuat seluruh dunia ini buta Votes: 0

Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilisation. Votes: 0

What does it matter to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? Votes: 0

Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew. Votes: 0

If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern! Votes: 0

I may have become Christian, were it not for Christians. Votes: 0

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage. Votes: 0

True love is boundless like the ocean and, swelling within one, spreads itself out and, crossing all boundaries and frontiers, envelops the whole world. Votes: 0

...service can have no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it. When it is done for show or for fear of public opinion, it stunts the man and crushes his spirit. Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. Votes: 0

My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth." Votes: 0

Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. This is God's attribute alone. Relative truth is all we know. Therefore, we can only follow the truth as we see it. Such pursuit of truth cannot lead anyone astray. Votes: 0

Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle, and a victory. Votes: 0

It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts. Votes: 0

Though violence is not lawful, when it is offered in self-defense or for the defense of the defenseless, it is an act of bravery far better than cowardly submission. The latter befits neither man nor woman. Under violence, there are many stages and varieties of bravery. Every man must judge this for himself. No other person can or has the right. Votes: 0

Freedom of a nation cannot be won by solitary acts of heroism though they may be of the true type, never by heroism so called. Votes: 0

Power is of two kinds: one is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Votes: 0

Marriage is not an act of services. It is a comfort man or woman seeks for himself or herself. Votes: 0

Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation. Votes: 0

Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God. Votes: 0

Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. Votes: 0

Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain as far as is humanly possible from violence. Votes: 0

Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire. Votes: 0

The power of unarmed nonviolence is any day far superior to that of armed force. Votes: 0

The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die. Votes: 0

Strictly speaking, no activity and no industry is possible without a certain amount of violence, no matter how little. Even the very process of living is impossible without a certain amount of violence. What we have to do is to minimize it to the greatest extent possible. Votes: 0

Ahimsa is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value. Votes: 0

My ahimsa would not tolerate the idea of giving a free meal to a healthy person who has not worked for it in some honest way. Votes: 0

When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war. Votes: 0

My anekantavada is the result of the twin doctrines of satya and ahimsa. Votes: 0

If our ahimsa is not of the brave but of the weak, and if it will bend the knee before himsa, Gandhism deserves to be destroyed. Votes: 0

Woman is more fitted than man to make explorations and take bolder action in ahimsa. Votes: 0

The votary of ahimsa has only one fear, that is, of God. Votes: 0

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. Votes: 0

Healthy and nourishing food was the only alpha and omega of rural economy. Votes: 0

Always believe in your dreams, because if you don't, you'll still have hope. Votes: 0

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. Votes: 0

Hinduism has made marvelous discoveries in things of religion, of the spirit, of the soul. We have no eye for these great and fine discoveries. We are dazzled by the material progress that Western science has made. Ancient India has survived because Hinduism was not developed along material but spiritual lines. Votes: 0

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep. Votes: 0

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. Votes: 0

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. Votes: 0

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain. Votes: 0

I regard Duryodhana and his party as the baser impulses in man, and Arjuna and his party as the higher impulses. Votes: 0

If I preach against the modern artificial life of sensual enjoyment, and ask men and women to go back to the simple life epitomized in the charkha, I do so because I know that without an intelligent return to simplicity, there is no escape from our d. Votes: 0

Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery. Votes: 0

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. Votes: 0

That atomic energy though harnessed by American scientists and army men for destructive purposes may be utilised by other scientists for humanitarian purposes is undoubtedly within the realm of possibility. ... An incendiary uses fire for his destructive and nefarious purpose, a housewife makes daily use of it in preparing nourishing food for mankind. Votes: 0

Perfection is the exclusive attribute of God, and it is indescribable, untranslatable. I do believe that it is possible for human beings to become perfect, even as God is perfect. It is necessary for all of us to aspire after that perfection but when that blessed state is attained, it become indescribable, indefinable. Votes: 0

I can not give you the reference of Ram Chandar or Krishna, because they were not historical figures. I can not help it but to present to you the names of (Hazrat) Abu Bakar (RA) and (Hazrat) Umar Farooq (RA). They were leaders of a vast Empire, yet they lived a life of austerity. Votes: 0

A vow imparts stability, ballast and firmness to one's character. Votes: 0

This earthly existence of ours is more brittle that the glass bangles that ladies wear. Votes: 0

Under ideal conditions, the barrister and the bhangi (sweeper) should both get the same payment. Votes: 0

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts? Votes: 0

Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India. Votes: 0

The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft. Votes: 0

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states. Votes: 0

Human nature will find itself only when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or brutal. Votes: 0

For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore, they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect. Votes: 0

The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane. Votes: 0

Nonviolence which to me is the glory of Hinduism, has been sought to be explained away by our people as being meant for the sanyasis only. Votes: 0

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being. Votes: 0

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident. Votes: 0

Be truthful, gentle, and fearless. Votes: 0

You may pluck out my eyes, but that cannot kill me. You may chop off my nose, but that will not kill me. But blast my belief in God, and I am dead. Votes: 0

Where there is love there is life. Votes: 0

No police officer could compel a satyagrahi to give evidence against a person who has confessed to him. A satyagrahi would never be guilty of a betrayal of trust. Votes: 0

How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to atoms and even kill me. He will then have my dead body, not my obedience. Ultimately, therefore, it is I who am the victor and not he, for he has failed in getting me to do what he wanted done. Votes: 0

Whilst the Bihar calamity damages the body, the calamity brought about by untouchability corrodes the very soul. Votes: 0

For me there is a vital connection between the Bihar calamity and the untouchability campaign. Votes: 0

Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. Votes: 0

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Votes: 0

I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death rather than kill him. Votes: 0

The use of soul-force for turning stones into bread would have been considered, as it is still considered, as black magic. Votes: 0

My austerities, fasting and prayers are, I know, of no value if I rely upon them for reforming me. My penance is the prayer of a bleeding heart for forgiveness for sins unwittingly committed. Votes: 0

Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds not words. Votes: 0

Nanda broke down every barrier and won his way to freedom not by brag, not by bluster, but by the purest form of self-suffering. Votes: 0

Non-co-operation is not a movement of drag, bluster or bluff. Votes: 0

Duly Enlightened Gandhi's head by Mall of the 'Free Press Journal,' Bombay, in 1932Watches may disagree, but let us not. Votes: 0

India's way is not Europe's. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages. Votes: 0

I had learnt at the onset not to carry on public work with borrowed money. Votes: 0

Englishmen must learn to be Brahmins, not banias. Votes: 0

The more I study Hindu scriptures, and the more I discuss them with Brahmins, the more I feel convinced that untouchability is the greatest blot upon Hinduism. Votes: 0

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. Votes: 0

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession. Votes: 0

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love. Votes: 0

In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one else could possibly reject the law of the final supremacy of brute force. Votes: 0

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature. Votes: 0

A burning passion coupled with absolute detachment is the key to all success. Votes: 0

There are no good-byes, where ever you'll be, you'll be in my heart. Votes: 0

Fearlessness presupposes calmness and peace of mind. Votes: 0

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning. Votes: 0

In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all. Votes: 0

I have known only one way of carrying on missionary work, viz., by personal example and discussion with searchers for knowledge. Votes: 0

Truth never damages a cause that is just. Votes: 0

If we are to stand the final heat of the battle, we must learn to stand our ground in the face of cavalry or baton charges and allow ourselves to be trampled under horses' hooves, or be bruised with baton charges. Votes: 0

The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that too, unconditional assistance, Co-operation which needs consideration is as a commercial contract and not friendship. Conditional co-operation is like adulterated cement which does not bind. Votes: 0

I believe that the sum total of the energy of mankind is not to bring us down but to lift us up, and that is the result of the definite, if unconscious, working of the law of love. The fact that mankind persists shows that the cohesive force is greater than the disruptive force, centripetal force greater than centrifugal. Votes: 0

The fact that mankind persists shows that the cohesive force is greater than the disruptive force, centripetal force greater than centrifugal. Votes: 0

Change yourself - you are in control. Votes: 0

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. Votes: 0

If you want to change the world, start with yourself. Votes: 0

If you want to change the world, be that change. Votes: 0

Live simply so that others may simply live. Votes: 0

It was through the Hindu religion that I learnt to respect Christianity and Islam. Votes: 0

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt. Votes: 0

Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority. Votes: 0

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps. Votes: 0

Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds. Votes: 0

Conversion without a clean heart is a denial of God and religion. Votes: 0

Surely conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows his creatures' hearts. A conversion without a clean heart is, in my opinion, a denial of God and Religion. Conversion without cleanliness of heart can only be a matter of sorrow, not joy, to a godly person. Votes: 0

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth. Votes: 0

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. Votes: 0

Blaming the wolf would not help the sheep much. The sheep must learn not to fall in the clutches of the wolf. Votes: 0

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning. Votes: 0

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive. Votes: 0

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right. Votes: 0

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. Votes: 0

I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist and Confucian. Votes: 0

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience. Votes: 0

Vaccination is a barbarous practice and one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time. Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand alone, if need be, against the whole world, in defense of their conviction. Votes: 0

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet. Votes: 0

Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone. Votes: 0

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed. Votes: 0

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another. Votes: 0

In this day of wonders no one will say that a thing or an idea is worthless because it is new. To say it is impossible because it is difficult is again not in consonance with the spirit of the age. Things undreamt of are daily being seen, the impossible is ever becoming possible. Votes: 0

Contraceptive methods are like putting a premium on vice. It makes men and women reckless... As it is, man has sufficiently degraded woman for his lust, and [contraception] , no matter how well meaning the advocates may be, will still further degrade her. Votes: 0

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. Votes: 0

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts. Votes: 0

Illness or disease is only Nature's warning that filth has accumulated in some portion or other of the body; and it would surely be the part of wisdom to allow Nature to remove the filth, instead of covering it up with the help of medicines. Votes: 0

To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act. Votes: 0

I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen. Votes: 0

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs... Surely it would be a crime against humanity to reduce the proud Arabs so that Palestine can be restored to the Jews partly or wholly as their national home Votes: 0

Destruction is not the law of humans. Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him. Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity. Votes: 0

I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the culture of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any Votes: 0

It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion toward our fellow creatures. Votes: 0

While everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates.... For I can see in the midst of death, life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists. Votes: 0

In the midst of darkness, light persists. Votes: 0

Khadi mentality means decentralization of the production and distribution of the necessaries of life. Votes: 0

You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul. Votes: 0

Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking, or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity; to me, the female sex is not the weaker sex. Votes: 0

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit. Votes: 0

Mankind is notoriously too dense to read the signs that God sends from time to time. We require drums to be beaten into our ears, before we should wake from our trance and hear the warning and see that to lose oneself in all, is the only way to find oneself. Votes: 0

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? Votes: 0

Hindu Dharma is like a boundless ocean teeming with priceless gems. The deeper you dive the more treasures you find. Votes: 0

The need of the moment is not one religion, but mutual respect and tolerance of the devotees of the different religions. Votes: 0

Unity among the different races and the different religions of India is indispensable to the birth of national life. Votes: 0

Tolerance is the only thing that will enable persons belonging to different religions to live as good neighbours and friends. Votes: 0

The first condition of humaneness is a little humility and a little diffidence about the correctness of one's conduct and a little receptiveness. Votes: 0

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. Votes: 0

To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man. Votes: 0

I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonour. But I believe that nonviolence is infinitely superior to violence, forgiveness is more manly than punishment. Votes: 0

Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood. Votes: 0

In the days of democracy there is no such thing as active loyalty to a person. You are, therefore, loyal or disloyal to institutions. Votes: 0

Now the man on duty used to be changed from time to time. Once one of these men, without giving me the slightest warning, without even asking me to leave the footpath, pushed and kicked me into the street. I was dismayed. Before I could question him as to his behaviour, Mr Coates, who happened to be passing the spot on horseback, hailed me and said: Votes: 0

This feeling of helplessness in us has arisen from our deliberate dismissal of God from our common affairs. Votes: 0

The privilege of resisting or disobeying a particular law or order accrues only to him who gives willing and unswerving obedience to the laws laid down for him. Votes: 0

At the individual level Swaraj is vitally connected with the capacity for dispassionate self-assessment , ceaseless self purification and growing self-reliance.... It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves Votes: 0

No displeasure, even of the dearest friends, can put me off the duty I see clearly in front of me. Votes: 0

Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly. Votes: 0

Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion Votes: 0

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul. Votes: 0

Religions are different roads converging on the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal? I believe that all religions of the world are true more or less. I say "more or less" because I believe that everything the human hand touches, by reason of the very fact that human beings are imperfect, becomes imperfect. Votes: 0

It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result. Votes: 0

Close the day with prayer so that you may have a peaceful night free from dreams and nightmares. Votes: 0

I see a clear breach of ahimsa even in driving away monkeys; the breach would be proportionately greater if they have to be killed. Votes: 0

We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean. Votes: 0

Openness of mind strengthens the truth in us and removes the dross from it, if there is any. Votes: 0

Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn. Votes: 0

If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality. Votes: 0

Economic equality is the master-key to nonviolent independence. Votes: 0

The real meaning of economic equality is "To each according to his need." Votes: 0

Economic equality of my conception does not mean that every one will literally have the same amount. Votes: 0

Far better than emasculation would be the bravery of those who use physical force. Far better than cowardice would be meeting one's death fighting. Votes: 0

I would risk violence a thousand times rather than risk the emasculation of the whole race. Votes: 0

Non-cooperation is an attempt to awaken the masses, to a sense of their dignity and power. This can only be done by enabling them to realise that they need not fear brute force, if they but know the soul within. Votes: 0

In our progress towards the goal, we ever see more and more enchanting scenery. Votes: 0

My mission is to convert every Indian, every Englishman and finally the world to nonviolence for regulating mutual relations, whether political, economic, social or religious. Votes: 0

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed. Votes: 0

Whenever I see an erring man, I say to myself I have also erred; when I see a lustful man I say to myself, so was I once; and in this way I feel kinship with everyone in the world and feel that I cannot be happy without the humblest of us being happy. Votes: 0

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. Votes: 0

Many could forgo heavy meals, a full wardrobe, a fine house, etcetera. It is the ego they cannot forgo. Votes: 0

I must refuse to believe that the Germans contemplate with equanimity the evacuation of cities like London for fear of destruction to be wrought by man's inhuman ingenuity. Votes: 0

I well remember how the thoughts I had up to the time of my discharge from the jail on every occasion were modified immediately after discharge, and after getting first-hand information myself. Somehow or other the jail atmosphere does not allow you to have all the bearings in your mind. Votes: 0

Real non-co-operation is non-co-operation with evil and not with the evil-doer. Votes: 0

I want freedom for the full expression of my personality. Votes: 0

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. Votes: 0

God has no religion. Votes: 0

When we fear God, then we shall fear no man, however high-placed he may be. Votes: 0

For the nonviolent person, the whole world is one family. He will fear none, nor will others fear him. Votes: 0

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity. Votes: 0

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men. Votes: 0

You can't shake hands with a closed fist. Votes: 0

Imitation is the sincerest flattery. Votes: 0

Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable. Votes: 0

Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. Votes: 0

To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that one that must be loved is not a friend. There is not merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend. Votes: 0

Forgive and forget, but never forget to forgive. You may find a happier heart is the key to a happier life. Votes: 0

Khadi to me is the symbol of unity of Indian humanity, of its economic freedom and equality and, therefore, ultimately, in the poetic expression of Jawaharlal Nehru, 'the livery of India's freedom'. Votes: 0

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities. Votes: 0

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment. Votes: 0

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease. Votes: 0

Swaraj is not meant for cowards, but for those who would mount smilingly to the gallows and refuse even to allow their eyes to be bandaged. Votes: 0

Employers ganging up against workers is like raising an army of elephants against ants. Votes: 0

The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him. Votes: 0

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea. Votes: 0

When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to Bhagavad-gita and find a verse to comfort me; and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow. Those who meditate on the Gita will derive fresh joy and new meanings from it every day. Votes: 0

The Bhagavad-Gita calls on humanity to dedicate body, mind and soul to pure duty and not to become mental voluptuaries at the mercy of random desires and undisciplined impulses. Votes: 0

Let the Gita be to you a mine of diamonds, as it has been to me; let it be your constant guide and friend on life's way. Votes: 0

Self-realization is the object of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures. Votes: 0

If God holds me to be a pure instrument for the spread of nonviolence in place of the awful violence now ruling the earth, He will give me the strength and show me the way. Votes: 0

Generosity consists not the sum given, but the manner in which it is bestowed Votes: 0

War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing. Votes: 0

God answers prayer in His own way, not ours. Votes: 0

My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet. Votes: 0

God has blessed me with the mission to place nonviolence before the nation for adoption. Votes: 0

I know that I can never be alone as God is there with me. Votes: 0

It is impossible for me to reconcile myself to the idea of conversion after the style that goes on in India and elsewhere today. It is an error which is perhaps the greatest impediment to the world's progress toward peace. ... Why should a Christian want to convert a Hindu to Christianity? Why should he not be satisfied if the Hindu is a good or godly man? Votes: 0

What the two hands of the labourer can achieve, the capitalist will never get with all his gold and silver. Votes: 0

Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes. Votes: 0

Stoning prophets and erecting churches to their memory afterwards has been the way of the world through the ages. Today we worship Christ, but the Christ in the flesh we crucified. Votes: 0

No people exists that would not think itself happier even under its own bad government than it might really be under the good governance of an alien power. Votes: 0

Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law will work just as the law of gravitation works whether we accept it or not. Votes: 0

Nonviolence requires great patience. Votes: 0

The Gita is not an aphoristic work, it is a great religious poem. Votes: 0

I would beseech you not only to be pure beyond suspicion but I would ask you to combine with stainless purity, great wisdom and great ability. Votes: 0

For a bowl of water give a goodly meal; For a kindly greeting bow thou down with zeal; For a simple penny pay thou back with gold; If thy life be rescued, life do not withhold. Thus the words and actions of the wise regard; Every little service tenfold they reward. But the truly noble know all men as one, And return with gladness good for evil done. Votes: 0

If you're going to be a bear, be a grizzly. Votes: 0

The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities. Votes: 0

Rama was not only on the lips of Hanuman. He was enthroned in his heart. He gave Hanuman exhaustless strength. Votes: 0

To have a happy ending, choose a happy moment and call it 'the ending'. Honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune. Votes: 0

Nonviolence has come among men and it will live. It is the harbinger of the peace of the world. Votes: 0

Khadi has been conceived as the foundation and the image of ahimsa. A real khadi-wearer will not utter an untruth. A real khadi-wearer will harbour no violence, no deceit, no impurity. Votes: 0

Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people. Votes: 0

Strength does not come from winning. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. Votes: 0

Harshness is conquered by gentleness, hatred by love, lethargy by zeal and darkness by light. Votes: 0

Everyone has faith in God though everyone does not know it. For everyone has faith in himself and that multiplied to the nth degree is God. The sum total of all that lives is God. We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean. Votes: 0

The mundane use of the Gayatri, its repetition for healing the sick, illustrates the meaning we have given to prayer. Votes: 0

A heart-felt prayer is not recitation with the lips. It is a yearning from within which expresses itself in every word, every act, nay every thought of people. Votes: 0

The hardest metal yields to sufficient heat. Even so must the hardest heart melt before sufficiency of the heat of non- violence. And there is no limit to the capacity of non-violence to generate heat. Votes: 0

Real suffering bravely borne, melts even a heart of stone. Such is the potency of suffering. And there lies the key to Satyagraha. Votes: 0

Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart desires must come to you. Votes: 0

When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal. Votes: 0

Faith is like the Himalaya mountains which cannot possibly change. Votes: 0

Hesitating to act because the whole vision might not be achieved, or because others do not yet share it, is an attitude that only hinders progress. Votes: 0

Is the God of the Mahometan different from the God of the Hindu? Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal? Wherein is the cause for quarreling? Votes: 0

Only my death will determine whether I am 'Mohamed Gandhi', Jinnah's slave, destroyer of the Hindu religion or its servant and protector. Votes: 0

I have no other wish in this world but to find light and joy and peace through Hinduism. Votes: 0

I am a Hindu because it is Hinduism which makes the world worth living. I am a Hindu hence I Love not only human beings, but all living beings. Votes: 0

Hinduism insists on the brotherhood of not only all mankind but of all that lives. Votes: 0

Hinduism is like the Ganga, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga it is beneficent in its total effect. It takes a provincial form in every province, but the inner substance is retained everywhere. Votes: 0

People say true friends must always hold hands, but true friends don't need to hold hands because they know the other hand will always be there. Votes: 0

Spiritually, compulsory disarmament has made us unmanly, and the presence of an alien army of occupation, employed with deadly effect to crush in us the spirit of resistance, has made us think we cannot look after ourselves or put up a defense against foreign aggression, or even defend our homes and families... Votes: 0

Homeopathy cures a larger percentage of cases than any other form of treatment and is beyond doubt safer and more economical. Votes: 0

I claim to be no more than the average person with less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith. Votes: 0

Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth. Votes: 0

Nobody can hurt me without my permission. Votes: 0

I learned from Hussain how to be wronged and be a winner, I learnt from Hussain how to attain victory while being oppressed. Votes: 0

Untouchability is a hydra-headed monster. Votes: 0

Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible. Votes: 0

Of all the superstitions that affect India, none is so great as that a knowledge of the English language is necessary for imbibing ideas of liberty and developing accuracy to thought. Votes: 0

My religion forbids me to belittle or disregard other cultures, as it insists, under pain of civil suicide, upon imbibing and living my own. Votes: 0

The Divine Music is incessantly ringing within all of us, but the loud senses drown the delicate Music, which is unlike and infinitely superior to anything we can perceive with our senses. Votes: 0

Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it. Votes: 0

Newspapers should be read for the study of facts. They should not be allowed to kill the habit of independent thinking. Votes: 0

No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom. Votes: 0

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Votes: 0

Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the Europeans, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir whose occupation is hunting, and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with and, then, pass his life in indolence and nakedness. Votes: 0

There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint. Votes: 0

Suffering cheerfully endured, ceases to be suffering and is transmuted into an ineffable joy. Votes: 0

Infinite Love is a weapon of matchless potency. It is the 'summum bonum' of life. It is an attribute of the brave, in fact it is their all. It does not come within the each of the coward. It is no wooden of lifeless dogma but a living and life-giving. Votes: 0

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone. Votes: 0

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another. Votes: 0

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it. Votes: 0

Breach of promise is no less an act of insolvency than a refusal to pay one's debt. Votes: 0

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble. Votes: 0

It amazes me to find an intelligent person who fights against something which he does not at all believe exists. Votes: 0

Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society. Votes: 0

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. Without interrelation with society he cannot realize his oneness with the universe or suppress his egotism. His social interdependence enables him to test his faith and to prove himself on the touchstone of reality. Votes: 0

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall.. think of it, always. Votes: 0

It is no religion to have for one's wife a girl who is fit only to sit in one's lap, it is the height of irreligion. Votes: 0

Running away for fear of death, leaving one's dear ones, temples or music to take care of themselves, is irreligion; it is cowardice. Votes: 0

In the dictionary of the seeker of truth there is no such thing as being "not successful." He is or should be an irrepressible optimist because of his immovable faith in the ultimate victory of Truth, which is God. Votes: 0

Let the Jews who claim to be the chosen race prove their title by choosing the way of non-violence for vindicating their position on earth. Every country is their home, including Palestine, not by aggression but by loving service Votes: 0

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny. Votes: 0

They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience. Votes: 0

Swaraj as conceived by me does not mean the end of kingship. Votes: 0

Each and every one of you should consider himself to be a trustee for the welfare of the rest of his fellow labourers and not be self-seeking. Votes: 0

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. Votes: 0

The cottage industry of India had to perish in order that Lancashire might flourish. Votes: 0

I call the Lancashire trade immoral, because it was raised and is sustained on the ruin of millions of India's peasants. Votes: 0

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness. Votes: 0

If that is the law of life we must work it out in daily exisitance. Wherever there are wars, wherever we are confronted with an opponent, conquer by love. I have found that the certain law of love has answered in my own life as the law of destruction has never done. Votes: 0

Moral restrictions tend to become lax in a foreign country, since the fear of social opinion disappears. Votes: 0

Study men laying down their lives without hurting anyone else in the cause of their country's freedom. Votes: 0

I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage. Votes: 0

It is the best thing to blame ourselves when people cannot get on well with us. Boundless charity necessarily includes all or it ceases to be boundless. We must be strict with ourselves and lenient with our neighbors. For we know not their difficulties and what they overcome. Votes: 0

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. Votes: 0

I have found that life persists in the midst of destruction and, therefore, there must be a higher law than that of destruction. Only under that law would a well-ordered society be intelligible and life worth living. Votes: 0

Live every day like it is your last and learn everyday like you will live forever Votes: 0

Learn as if you will live forever. Votes: 0

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die. Votes: 0

My love of nationalism is that my country may become free, and if need be, the whole of the country die, so that the human race may live. Votes: 0

Live simply that others might simply live. Votes: 0

The earth, the air, the land and the water are not an inheritance from our fore fathers but on loan from our children. So we have to handover to them at least as it was handed over to us. Votes: 0

The message of the Gita is to be found in the second chapter of the Gita where Lord Krishna speaks of the balanced state of mind, of mental equipoise. Votes: 0

In the secret of my heart I am in perpetual quarrel with God that He should allow such things [as the war] to go on. My non-violence seems almost impotent. But the answer comes at the end of the daily quarrel that neither God nor non-violence is impotent. Impotence is in men. I must try on without losing faith even though I may break in the attempt. Votes: 0

You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them. Votes: 0

My only sanction is the love and affection in which you hold me. But it has its weaknesses, as it has its strengths. Votes: 0

Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two... The duty of a human being is to diminish hatred and to promote love. Votes: 0

Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two. What is obtained by love is retained for all time. What is obtained by hatred proves a burden in reality for it increases hatred." - by Mohandas K. Gandhi - Votes: 0

Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison. Votes: 0

To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record. Votes: 0

The author of the Mahabharata has not established the necessity of physical warfare; on the contrary he has proved its futility. Votes: 0

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place. Votes: 0

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us. Votes: 0

There is no one without faults, not even men of God. They are men of God not because they are faultless, but because they know their faults, they strive against them, they do not hide them, and are ever ready to correct themselves. Votes: 0

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind. Votes: 0

In the name of religion, we force widowhood upon our three lakh girl-widows who could not understand the import of the marriage ceremony. Votes: 0

Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity...If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior...If non-violence is the law of our being, the future is with women. Votes: 0

I believe that the yarn we spin is capable of mending the broken warp and woof of our life! Votes: 0

My life is my message. Votes: 0

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected. Votes: 0

A balanced intellect presupposes a harmonious growth of body, mind and soul. Votes: 0

A genuine fast cleanses the body, mind and soul. It crucifies the flesh and to that extent sets the soul free. Votes: 0

I look upon an increase in the power of the State with the greatest fear because, although while apparently doing good by minimizing exploitation, it does the greatest harm to mankind by destroying individuality which lies at the heart of all progress. Votes: 0

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth. Votes: 0

Evil is, good or truth misplaced. Votes: 0

Dharma is one and one only. Ahimsa means moksha, and moksha is the realization of Truth. Votes: 0

Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving. Votes: 0

There is more to life than increasing its speed. Votes: 0

The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives. Votes: 0

Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants. Votes: 0

My greatest weapon is mute prayer. Votes: 0

If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef-tea or mutton, even under medical advice, I would prefer death. Votes: 0

Keep my word positive. Words become my behaviors. Keep my behaviors positive. Behaviors become my habits. Keep my habits positive. Habits become my values. Keep my values positive. Values become my destiny. Votes: 0

Wherever you are you will always be in my heart. Votes: 0

No sophistry, no jugglery in figures can explain away the evidence that the skeletons in many villages present to the naked eye. Votes: 0

Just as there are signs by which you can recognize violence with the naked eye, so is the spinning wheel to me a decisive sign of nonviolence. Votes: 0

This belief in the necessity of English training has enslaved us. It has unfitted us for true national service. Votes: 0

My national service is part of my training for freeing my soul from the bondage of the flesh. Votes: 0

A society or a nation constructed nonviolently must be able to withstand attack upon its structure from without or within. Votes: 0

The method of satyagraha requires that the satyagrahi should never lose hope, so long as there is the slightest ground left for it. Votes: 0

A man of God never strives after untruth and therefore he can never lose hope. Votes: 0

A man with a grain of faith in God never loses hope, because he ever believes in the ultimate triumph of Truth. Votes: 0

If you think the world is all wrong, remember that it contains people like you. Votes: 0

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could. Votes: 0

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it. Votes: 0

If non-violence is the Law of our being, the future is with Women. Votes: 0

The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy. Votes: 0

Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength, and there is nothing automatic or intuitive about the resoluteness required for using non-violent methods in political struggle and the quest for Truth. Votes: 0

I contend that non-violent acts exert pressure far more effective than violent acts, for the pressure comes from goodwill and gentleness. Votes: 0

If I were asked to define the Hindu creed, I should simply say: Search after truth through non-violent means. A man may not believe in God and still call himself a Hindu. Hinduism is a relentless pursuit after truth... Hinduism is the religion of truth. Truth is God. Denial of God we have known. Denial of truth we have not known. Votes: 0

I am but a poor struggling soul yearning to be wholly good, wholly truthful and wholly non-violent in thought, word and deed, but ever failing to reach the ideal which I know to be true. It is a painful climb, but each step upwards makes me feel stronger and fit for the next. Votes: 0

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. Violence is any day preferable to impotence. There is hope for a violent man to become non-violent. There is no such hope for the impotent. Votes: 0

There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for. Votes: 0

I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life. Votes: 0

Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it. Votes: 0

We are constantly being astonished these days at the amazing discoveries in the field of violence. But I maintain that far more undreamt of and seemingly impossible discoveries will be made in the field of nonviolence. Votes: 0

History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance. Votes: 0

The power of nonviolent resistance can only come from honest working of the constructive programme. Votes: 0

Good travels at a snail's pace. Those who want to do good are not selfish, they are not in a hurry, they know that to impregnate people with good requires a long time. Votes: 0

I believe in absolute oneness of God and therefore also of humanity. Votes: 0

Let our lives be open books for all to study. Votes: 0

There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings. Votes: 0

Prayer is the only means of bringing about orderliness and peace and repose in our daily acts. Votes: 0

Outward appearance is nothing to Him if it is not an expression of the inner. Votes: 0

The sky may be overcast today with clouds, but a fervent prayer to God is enough to dispel them. Votes: 0

Healthy, well-informed, balanced criticism is the ozone of public life. Votes: 0

The control of the palate is a valuable aid for the control of the mind. Votes: 0

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. Votes: 0

As a rule, the mind, residing in a body that has become weakened by pampering, is also weak, and where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul. Votes: 0

It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet Votes: 0

I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience which is God. Votes: 0

My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism... true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village. Votes: 0

The way of peace is the way of truth. Truthfulness is even more important than peacefulness. Votes: 0

A small group of determined and like-minded people can change the course of history. Votes: 0

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent. Votes: 0

There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results. Votes: 0

I believe that the civilization India evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by our ancestors, Rome went, Greece shared the same fate; the might of the Pharaohs was broken; Japan has become Westernized; of China nothing can be said; but India is still, somehow or other, sound at the foundation. Votes: 0

Today I know that physical training should have as much place in the curriculum as mental training. Votes: 0

What I want to achieve, what I have been striving and pining for these thirty years, is self-realization, that is, to see God face to face. Votes: 0

A life of sacrifice is the pinnacle of art, and is full of true joy. Votes: 0

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer. Votes: 0

The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet. Votes: 0

Poverty is the worst form of violence. Votes: 0

There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid. Votes: 0

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching. Votes: 0

A prayerful study and experience are essential for a correct interpretation of the scriptures. Votes: 0

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress. Votes: 0

Action expresses priorities. Votes: 0

Active nonviolence is necessary for those who will offer civil disobedience but the will and proper training are enough for the people to co-operate with those who are chosen for civil disobedience. Votes: 0

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion. Votes: 0

Whatever may be the pros and cons of going to the public theatre, it is a patent fact that it has undermined the morals and ruined the character of many a youth in his country. Votes: 0

I know that Buddhism is to Hinduism what Protestantism is to Roman Catholicism, only in a much stronger light, to a much greater degree. Votes: 0

Violence will prevail over violence, only when someone can prove to me that darkness can be dispelled by darkness Votes: 0

Crime and vice generally require darkness for prowling. They disappear when light plays upon them. Votes: 0

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion. Votes: 0

The pure love of one soul can offset the hatred of millions. Votes: 0

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. There is nothing more potent than thought. Deed follows word and word follows thought. The word is the result of a mighty thought, and where the thought is mighty and pure the result is always mighty and pure. Votes: 0

I shall content myself with merely declaring my firm conviction that, for the seeker who would live in fear of God and who would see Him face to face, restraint in diet both as to quantity and quality is as essential as restraint in thought and speech. Votes: 0

Khaddar brings a ray of hope to the widow's broken-up home. Votes: 0

There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come by mere academic argument and appeal to reason and logic. Discipline is learnt in the school of adversity. Votes: 0

I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man, and believing as I do in the theory of reincarnation, I live in the hope that if not in this birth, in some other birth I shall be able to hug all of humanity in friendly embrace. Votes: 0

Every living faith must have within itself the power of rejuvenation if it is to live Votes: 0

A non-violent revolution is not a program of seizure of power. It is a program of transformation of relationships, ending in a peaceful transfer of power. Votes: 0

Hinduism is a relentless pursuit of Truth. "Truth is God" and if today it has become moribund, inactive, irresponsive to growth, it is because we are fatigued; and as soon as the fatigue is over, Hinduism will burst upon the world with a brilliance perhaps unknown before. Votes: 0

For me, humanitarian service, or rather service of all that lives, is religion. And I draw no distinction between such religion and politics. Votes: 0

The practice of truth and nonviolence melted religious differences, and we learnt to see beauty in each religion. Votes: 0

We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party. Votes: 0

Prayer is no mere exercise of words or of the ears, it is no mere repetition of empty formula. Votes: 0

The lower animals are our brethren. I include among them the lion and the tiger. We do not know how to live with these carnivorous beasts and poisonous reptiles because of our ignorance. Votes: 0

Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself. Votes: 0

God will rule the lives of all those who will surrender themselves without reservation to Him. Votes: 0

A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve. Votes: 0

It is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others' religions as we would have them respect our own, a friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty. Votes: 0

If you do nothing there will be no results Votes: 0

You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results. Votes: 0

Enter with me into the sufferings, not only of the people of India but of the whole world. Nonviolence is a more active and real fight against wickedness than retaliation whose very nature is to increase wickedness. It is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest. Votes: 0

The willing sacrifice of the innocents is the most powerful retort to insolent tyranny that has yet to be conceived by God or man. Votes: 0

True happiness brings more richness than all the money in the world. Votes: 0

No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred. Votes: 0

If untouchability lives, Hinduism perishes and even India perishes, but if untouchability is eradicated from the Hindu heart, root and branch, then Hinduism has a definite message for the world. Votes: 0

Hand-spinning is designed to put millions of rupees in the hands of the poor villagers. Votes: 0

You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result Votes: 0

We must become the change we want to see Votes: 0

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me Votes: 0

No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive Votes: 0

Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation Votes: 0

Hanya Tuhan yang boleh mengambil hidup seseorang, karena Ia yang memberikannya. Votes: 0

Salah sekali untuk menuntut orang lain agar bersih kalau kita sendiri tetap tidak bersih. Votes: 0

Orang yang mencari-cari kesalahan orang lain, buta terhadap kesalahannya sendiri. Votes: 0

Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny. Votes: 0

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority. Votes: 0

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress. Votes: 0

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed. Votes: 0

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within. Votes: 0

The future depends on what you do today. Votes: 0

The future depends on what we do in the present. Votes: 0

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral. Votes: 0

True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it. Votes: 0

Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always. Votes: 0

If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors. Votes: 0

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart. Votes: 0

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind. Votes: 0

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win. Votes: 0

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. Votes: 0

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind. Votes: 0

Hate the sin, love the sinner. Votes: 0

There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent. Votes: 0

A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber. Votes: 0

My politics is my religion, my religion is my politics. Votes: 0

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. Votes: 0

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does the truth become error because nobody will see it.(Young India 1924-1926) Votes: 0

Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers. Votes: 0

Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It is when the horizon is the darkest and human reason is beaten down to the ground that faith shines brightest and comes to our rescue. Votes: 0

Intolerance is a species of violence and therefore against our creed. Votes: 0

There's no God higher than truth. Votes: 0

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary."(Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13, 3 May 1919) Votes: 0

Truth should be the very breath of our life. When once this state in the pilgrim's progress is reached, all other rules of correct living will come without any effort, and obedience to them will be instinctive. Votes: 0

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. Votes: 0

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always. Votes: 0

It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners. Votes: 0

Where choice is set between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence ... I prefer to use arms in defense of honor rather than remain the vile witness of dishonor... Votes: 0

I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world. Votes: 0

To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect and their oneness, and should insist upon choosing as their representatives only such persons as are good and true. Votes: 0

What barrier is there that love cannot break? Votes: 0

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment. Votes: 0

The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth. Votes: 0

There are only two ways to live your life: as though nothing is a miracle, or as though everything is a miracle. Votes: 0

The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace. Votes: 0

In fact, it is more correct to say that Truth is God, than to say that God is Truth. Votes: 0

There's more to life than increasing its speed Votes: 0

The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer. Votes: 0

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. Votes: 0

It would be a sad day for India if it has to inherit the English scale and the English tastes so utterly unsuitable to the Indian environment. Votes: 0

Swaraj would be real Swaraj only when there would be no occasion for safeguarding any rights. Votes: 0

My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love. Votes: 0

Sanitation is more important than Independence. Votes: 0

The present war is the saturation point in violence. It spells, to my mind, also its doom. Votes: 0

Truth (satya) is positive, nonviolence is negative. Votes: 0

For a satyagrahi brigade only those are eligible who believe in ahimsa and satya. Votes: 0

Satyagraha is a purely spiritual weapon. Votes: 0

Satyagraha and civil disobedience and fasts have nothing in common with the use of force, veiled or open. Votes: 0

Satyagraha can rid society of all evils, political, economic and moral. Votes: 0

Satyagraha is a law for universal application. Beginning with the family, its use can be extended to every other circle. Votes: 0

The satyagrahi strives to reach reason through the heart. The method of reaching the heart is to awaken public opinion. Votes: 0

A satyagrahi has always his minimum and it is this minimum that is wanted in connection with this struggle. Votes: 0

The satyagrahi should not have any hatred in his heart against the opponent. Votes: 0

Satyagraha thrives on repression till at last the repressor is tired of it and the object of satyagraha is gained. Votes: 0

In satyagraha, a courted imprisonment carries its own praise. Votes: 0

I have even seen the writings suggesting that I am playing a deep game, that I am using the present turmoil to foist my fads on India, and am making religious experiments at India's expense. I can only answer that Satyagraha is made of sterner stuff. There is nothing reserved and nothing secret in it. Votes: 0

It is claimed for satyagraha that it is a complete substitute for violence or war. Votes: 0

Satyagraha as conceived by me is a science in the making. Votes: 0

Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion. Votes: 0

In the dictionary of satyagraha, there is no enemy. Votes: 0

My purpose is to describe experiments in the science ofsatyagraha and not at all to describe how good I am. Votes: 0

Satyagraha does not depend on outside help, it derives all its strength from within. Votes: 0

The fight of satyagraha is for the strong in spirit, not the doubter or the timid. Satyagraha teaches us the art of living as well as dying. Votes: 0

All satyagraha and fasting is a species of tyaga. It depends for its effects upon an expression of wholesome public opinion shorn of all bitterness. Votes: 0

Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence. Votes: 0

A satyagrahi may not ride two horses, truth and untruth, at the same time, nor, to change the metaphor, trim his sail to catch every breeze as you do in the name of communism. Votes: 0

Social service that savours of patronage is not service. Votes: 0

I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence. Votes: 0

Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock. Votes: 0

Self-defense...is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation. Votes: 0

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them. Votes: 0

One hour spent in spinning should be an hour of self-development for the spinner. Votes: 0

Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love. Votes: 0

It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us. This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good heart whatever they might have to say. Votes: 0

I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection. - Hind Swaraj Votes: 0

If you take care of your immediate surroundings, the universe will take care of itself. Votes: 0

Good government is no substitute for self-government. Votes: 0

My fast is, among other things, meant to qualify me for achieving that equal and selfless love. Votes: 0

Swadeshism is not a cult of hatred. It is a doctrine of selfless service that has its roots in the purest ahimsa, i.e. love. Votes: 0

Ahimsa must express itself through acts of selfless service of the masses. Votes: 0

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. Votes: 0

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake. Votes: 0

I can neither serve God nor humanity if as an Indian I do not serve India, and as a Hindu I do not serve Indian Mussalmans. Votes: 0

Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice. Votes: 0

All of us with one voice call one God differently as Parmatma, Ishwara, Shiva, Vishnu, Rama, Allah, Khuda, Dada-Hormuzda, Jehova, God and an infinite variety of names. Votes: 0

I have described Swaraj as Ramarajya and Ramarajya is an impossibility unless we have thousands of Sitas. Votes: 0

I once killed a man for snoring too loudly. Votes: 0

Be the change you want to see. Votes: 0

To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves. Votes: 0

Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals. Votes: 0

As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence. Votes: 0

Love never claims, it ever gives. Votes: 0

Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment. Votes: 0

I call myself a labourer because I take pride in calling myself a spinner, weaver, farmer and scavenger. Votes: 0

The story of Ramakrishna is a story of religion in practice. His life enables us to see God face to face.... In this age of skepticism Ramakrishna presents an example of a bright and living faith which gives solace to thousands of men and women who would otherwise have remained without spiritual light. Votes: 0

Each one prays to God according to his own light. Votes: 0

Spiritual instruments suffer in their potency when their use is taught through non-spiritual messages which are self-propagating. Votes: 0

Temples are like spiritual hospitals, and the sinful, who are spiritually diseased, have the first right to be ministered to by them. Votes: 0

Mortification of the flesh has been held all the world over as a condition of spiritual progress. Votes: 0

One's everyday life is never capable of being separated from his spiritual being. Votes: 0

Let not the spirit wander while the words of prayer run on out of our mouth. Votes: 0

It is a mark of wisdom not to kick away the very step from which we have risen higher. The removal of one step from a staircase brings down the whole of it. Votes: 0

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body. Votes: 0

A perfect mind comes from a perfect heart, not the heart known by a doctor's stethoscope but the heart which is the seat of God. Votes: 0

Dignity of human nature requires that we must face the storms of life. Votes: 0

Faith is not a delicate flower which would wither away under the slightest stormy weather. Votes: 0

Where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul. Votes: 0

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands. Votes: 0

Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day: - I shall not fear anyone on Earth. - I shall fear only God. - I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. - I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. - I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering. Votes: 0

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality. Votes: 0

The weapon of nonviolence does not need supermen or superwomen to wield it; even beings of common clay can use it and have used it before this with success. Votes: 0

Celibacy is a great help, inasmuch as it enables one to lead a life of full surrender to God. Votes: 0

The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted. Votes: 0

Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time. Votes: 0

Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time. I must continue to bear testimony to truth even if I am forsaken by all. Mine may today be a voice in the wilderness, but it will be heard when all other voices are silenced, if it is the voice of Truth. Votes: 0

A nonviolent system of government is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists. Votes: 0

The quest of Truth involves tapas-self-suffering-sometimes even unto death. Votes: 0

A teetotaler would regard it as his duty to associate with his drunkard brother for the purpose of weaning him from the evil habit. Votes: 0

The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity. Votes: 0

The renunciation of the Gita is the acid test of faith. Votes: 0

There is no god higher than truth. Votes: 0

Those who know how to think need no teachers. Votes: 0

The taking of vows that are not feasible or that are beyond one's capacity would betray thoughtlessness and want of balance. Votes: 0

The bomb-throwers have discredited the cause of freedom, in whose name they threw the bombs. Votes: 0

It is a travesty of true religion to consider one's own religion as superior and other's as inferior. Votes: 0

A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members. Votes: 0

Men flocked to see it and ascended it as it was a novelty and of unique dimensions. It was the toy of the exhibition. So long as we are children we are attracted by toys, and the tower was a good demonstration of the fact that we are all children attracted by trinkets. That may be claimed to be the purpose served by the Eiffel Tower. Votes: 0

Don't let anybody walk trough your mind with dirty feet. Votes: 0

True beauty lies in purity of the heart. Votes: 0

Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths. Votes: 0

Non-co-operation intended to pave the way to real honourable and voluntary co-operation based on mutual respect and trust. Votes: 0

A scavenger who works in His service shares equal distinction with a king who uses his gifts in His name and is a mere trustee. Votes: 0

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. Votes: 0

Non-co-operation is the nation's notice that it is no longer satisfied to be in tutelage. Votes: 0

A satyagrahi is sometimes bound to use language which is capable of two meanings, provided both the meanings are obvious and necessary and there is no intention to deceive anyone. Votes: 0

A person unbound by vows can never be absolutely relied upon. Votes: 0

However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes. Votes: 0

My nonviolence demands universal love, and you are not a small part of it. Votes: 0

The aim of university education should be to turn out true servants of the people who will live and die for the country's freedom. Votes: 0

As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist Votes: 0

An unjust law in itself is an act of violence. Votes: 0

We shall dig our own grave if we do not purge ourselves of this curse of untouchability. Votes: 0

The untouchability of Hinduism is probably worse than that of the modern imperialists. Votes: 0

To remove untouchability is a penance that caste Hindus owe to Hinduism and to themselves. Votes: 0

So long as untouchability disfigures Hinduism, so long do I hold the attainment of Swaraj to be an utter impossibility. Votes: 0

No stone should be left unturned to bring home to the family members that untouchability is a sin and a blot on Hinduism. Votes: 0

We are too near the scene of tragedy to realize that this canker or untouchability has traveled far beyond its prescribed limits and has sapped the very foundation of the whole nation. Votes: 0

Let us, by praying, purify ourselves and we shall not only remove untouchability but shall also hasten the advent of Swaraj. Votes: 0

Untouchability is a blot on Hinduism. It is a canker eating into its vitals. Votes: 0

Hinduism dies if untouchability lives, and untouchability has to die if Hinduism is to live. Votes: 0

The removal of untouchability is a question of the purification of Hinduism. Votes: 0

Hinduism has sinned in giving sanction to untouchability. Votes: 0

Untouchability, I hold, is a sin, if Bhagavadgita is one of our Divine Books. Votes: 0

It is a crime and a sin to regard a person as untouchable because he is born in a particular community. Votes: 0

Hindu-Muslim unity, khaddar and removal of untouchability are to me the foundation of Swaraj. Votes: 0

The attack on untouchability is an attack on this high-and low-ness. Votes: 0

If untouchability is an integral part of Hinduism, the latter is a spent bullet. Votes: 0

Ravana was a rakshasa but this rakshasi of untouchability is even more terrible than Ravana. Votes: 0

The purification required is not of untouchables but of the so-called superior castes. Votes: 0

What crimes, for which we condemn the Government as satanic, have not we been guilty of towards our own untouchable brethren? Votes: 0

Anger, lust and such other evil passions raging in the heart are the real untouchables. Votes: 0

A true man of piety will consider himself a sinner and, therefore, untouchable. Votes: 0

God never made man that he may consider another man as untouchable. Votes: 0

God, who is the embodiment of Truth and Right and Justice, can never have sanctioned a religion or practice which regards one - fifth of our vast population as untouchables. Votes: 0

Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all. Votes: 0

Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence Votes: 0

In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists. Votes: 0

One cannot reach Truth by untruthfulness. Truthful conduct alone can reach truth. Votes: 0

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. Votes: 0

Urbanization in India is a slow but sure death for her villages and villagers. Votes: 0

My plea is for banishing the English language as a cultural usurper, as we successfully banished the political rule of the English usurper. Votes: 0

Much that we hug today as knowledge is ignorance pure and simple. It makes the mind wander and even reduces it to a vacuity. Votes: 0

Blind adoration, in the age of action, is perfectly valueless, is often embarrassing and, equally, often painful. Votes: 0

The various religions are like different roads converging on the same point. What difference does it make if we follow different routes, provided we arrive at the same destination? Votes: 0

The Vedas are as indefinable as God and Hinduism. Votes: 0

I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it. Votes: 0

Vehement writing, even if it is charged with truth, is no answer to violent action. Votes: 0

A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control. Votes: 0

Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association. Votes: 0

The most violent weapon on earth is the table fork. Votes: 0

If the circulation of blood theory could not have been discovered without vivisection, the human kind could well have done without it. Votes: 0

Of all the black crimes that humanity is committing against the great Creation, vivisection is the blackest. Votes: 0

Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood. Votes: 0

Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life. Votes: 0

Waiting on God means increasing purity. Votes: 0

Meditation is waiting on God. Votes: 0

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. . . . . . . Prayer is the first and the last lesson in learning the noble and brave art of sacrificing self in the various walks of life culminating in the defence of one's nation's liberty and honour. Votes: 0

The turning of the charkha in a lifeless way will be like the turning of the beads of the rosary with a wandering mind turned away from God. Votes: 0

What is life worth without trials and tribulations which are the salt of life. Votes: 0

Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion. Votes: 0

If we would be pure, if we would save Hinduism, we must rid ourselves of this poison of enforced widowhood. Votes: 0

Let us work together for unity and love. Votes: 0

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry... Votes: 0

Man the law-giver will have to pay a dreadful penalty for the degradation he has imposed upon the so called weaker sex. Votes: 0

There are two days in the year that we can not do anything, yesterday and tomorrow Votes: 0

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality. Votes: 0

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive. Votes: 0

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head. Votes: 0

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed. Votes: 0

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire. Votes: 0

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. Votes: 0

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps. Votes: 0

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others. Votes: 0

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort. Votes: 0

Self-respect knows no considerations. Votes: 0

In a gentle way, you can shake the world. Votes: 0

The good man is the friend of all living things. Votes: 0

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill. Votes: 0

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having. Votes: 0

Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him. Votes: 0

"All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense. Votes: 0

"Be the change you want to see in the world"...and, if you can't be that change, then either get out of the way of the person who wants to be that change or support the individual with your financial resources. Votes: 0

"Do not worry in the least about yourself, leave all worry to God" this appears to be the commandment in all religions. Votes: 0

... in the midst of death life persists ... Votes: 0

... man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows. I know we must all err. I would give up milk if I could, but I cannot. I have made that experiment times without number. I could not, after a serious illness, regain my strength, unless I went back to milk. That has been the tragedy of my life. But the basis of my vegetarianism is not physical, but moral. If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef tea or mutton, even on medical advice, I would prefer death. That is the basis of my vegetarianism. Votes: 0

... the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties driven asunder. Votes: 0

... there are chords in every human heart. If we only knew how to strike the right chord, we would bring out the music. Votes: 0

... we have to learn to use that force (love) among all that lives, and in the use of it consists our knowledge of God. Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction. Votes: 0

... when all violence subsides in the human heart, the state which remains is love. It is not something we have to acquire; it is always present, and needs only to be uncovered. This is our real nature, not merely to love one person here, another there, but to be love itself. Votes: 0

[He] alone is truly nonviolent who remains nonviolent even though he has the ability to strike. Votes: 0

[I]t seems to me as clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime. Votes: 0

[It] is impossible for us to establish a living vital connection with the masses unless we will work for them, through them and in their midst, not as their patrons but as their servants. Votes: 0

3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, but 9 is not prime; -in this incarnation. Votes: 0

A bogus Congress register can never lead you to Swaraj any more than a paper boat can help you to sail across the Padma. Votes: 0

A born democrat is a born disciplinarian. Votes: 0

A certain degree of physical harmony and comfort is necessary, but above a certain level it becomes a hindrance instead of a help. Therefore the ideal of creating an unlimited number of wants and satisfying them seems to be a delusion and a snare. Votes: 0

A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence. Votes: 0

A clean confession combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest type of repentance. Votes: 0

A clear victory of satyagraha is impossible so long as there is ill will. Votes: 0

A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer. Votes: 0

A congregational prayer is a means for establishing essential human unity though common worship. Votes: 0

A convert's enthusiasm for his new religion is greater than that of a person who is born in it. Votes: 0

A correct diagnosis is three-fourths the remedy. Votes: 0

A country that is governed by its national army can never be morally free and, therefore, its so-called weakest member can never rise to his full moral height. Votes: 0

A courageous man prefers death to the surrender of self-respect. Votes: 0

A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women Votes: 0

A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. Votes: 0

A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so. Votes: 0

A democrat must be utterly selfless. He must think and dream not in terms of self or of party, but only of democracy. Votes: 0

A democrat should not rely upon the force of the arms his state could flaunt in the face of the world, but on the moral force his state could put at the disposal of the world. Votes: 0

A democratic organization has to dare to do the right at all costs. Votes: 0

A devotee of Rama may be said to be the same as the steadfast one (sthitaprajnya) of the Gita. Votes: 0

A dissolute character is more dissolute in thought than in deed. And the same is true of violence. Our violence in word and deed is but a feeble echo of the surging violence of thought in us. Votes: 0

A duty religiously performed carries with it several other important consequences. Votes: 0

A faith gained in strength only when people were willing to lay down their lives for it. Votes: 0

A fast to be true must be accompanied by a readiness to receive pure thoughts and determination to resist all Satan's temptations. Votes: 0

A fearless woman who knows that her purity is her best shield can never be dishonoured. Votes: 0

A fear-stricken person can never know God, and one who knows God will never fear a mortal man. Votes: 0

A free India will throw all her weight in favour of world disarmament and should herself be prepared to give a lead in this. Votes: 0

A friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty. Votes: 0

A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much. Votes: 0

A full and candid admission of one's mistakes should make proof against its repetition. Votes: 0

A general belief seems to prevail in the colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than the savages or natives of Africa. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir. Votes: 0

A genuine satyagraha should never excite contempt in the opponent even when it fails to command regard or respect. Votes: 0

A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty. Votes: 0

A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed. Votes: 0

A great man may not do great things but they do ordinary things greatly. Votes: 0

A jailer is as much a prisoner as his prisoner. Votes: 0

A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind. Votes: 0

A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can certainly take to physical labour. Votes: 0

A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers. Votes: 0

A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience. Votes: 0

A life without vows is like a ship without an anchor or like an edifice that is built on sand instead of a solid rock. Votes: 0

A literal interpretation of the Gita lands one in a sea of contradictions. Votes: 0

A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society. Votes: 0

A living faith cannot be manufactured by the rule of majority Votes: 0

A living faith in God means acceptance of the brotherhood of mankind. Votes: 0

A love that is based on the goodness of those whom you love is a mercenary affair. Votes: 0

A man can give up a right, but he may not give up a duty without being guilty of a grave dereliction. Votes: 0

A man cannot serve God and Mammon, nor be "temperate and furious" at the same time. Votes: 0

A man like me cannot but believe that this earthquake is a divine chastisement sent by God for our sins. Votes: 0

A man of character will make himself worthy of any position he is given. Votes: 0

A man of faith does not bargain or stipulate with God. Votes: 0

A man of faith will remain steadfast to truth even though the whole world might appear to be enveloped in falsehood. Votes: 0

A man of prayer regards what are known as physical calamities as divine chastisement. Votes: 0

A man of truth must also be a man of care. Votes: 0

A man of truth must ever be confident, if he has also equal need to be diffident. Votes: 0

A man or a woman who serves the country with all his or her heart stands on par with the tallest Congress-man. Votes: 0

A man who behaves like a beast is worse than the beast. Votes: 0

A man who broods on evil is as bad a man who does evil, if he is no worse. Votes: 0

A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all. Votes: 0

A man who is intentionally unarmed relies upon the Unseen Force called God by poets, but called the Unknown by scientists. Votes: 0

A man who is swayed by negative emotions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth. Votes: 0

A man who is truthful and does not mean ill even to his adversary will be slow to believe charges even against his foes. He will, however, try to understand the viewpoints of his opponents and will always keep an open mind and seek every opportunity of serving his opponents. Votes: 0

A man who throws himself on God ceases to fear man Votes: 0

A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate. Votes: 0

A man's true wealth hereafter is the good he has done to his fellowmen. Votes: 0

A mind not set on God is given to wandering and lacks the quality of a temple of worship. Votes: 0

A mother would never by choice sleep in a wet bed but she would gladly do so in order to spare the dry bed for her child. Votes: 0

A nation that is capable of limitless sacrifice is capable of rising to limitless heights. The purer the sacrifice the quicker the progress. Votes: 0

A nation that is unfit to fight cannot, from experience, prove the virtue of not fighting. Votes: 0

A national spirit is necessary for national existence. A flag is a material aid to the development of such a spirit. Votes: 0

A nonviolent action accompanied by nonviolence in thought and word should never produce enduring violent reaction upon the opponent. Votes: 0

A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation. Votes: 0

A nonviolent man cannot desire embarrassment. Votes: 0

A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others. Votes: 0

A nonviolent person's life is always at the disposal of him who would take it. Votes: 0

A nonviolent warrior knows no leaving the battle. He rushes into the mouth of himsa, never even once harbouring an evil thought. Votes: 0

A pacifism which can see the cruelties only of occasional military warfare and is blind to the continuous cruelties of our social system is worthless. Votes: 0

A perfect Muslim is he from whose tongue and hands mankind is safe. Votes: 0

A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature. Votes: 0

A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat. Votes: 0

A person who has truly realized the principle of nonviolence has the God given strength for his weapon, and the world has not yet known anything that can match it. Votes: 0

A person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see his goal; he sees only his opposition and the obstacles before him. Votes: 0

A personal selfish prayer is bad whether made before an image or an unseen God. Votes: 0

A plea for the spinning wheel is a plea for recognizing the dignity of labour. Votes: 0

A poet is one who can call forth the good latent in the human beast. Votes: 0

A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to its assistance. Votes: 0

A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard. Votes: 0

A rabbit that runs away from the bull-terrier is not particularly non-violent. Votes: 0

A religion cannot be sustained by the number of its lip-followers denying in their lives its tenets. Votes: 0

A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification. Votes: 0

A rose will smell as sweet by any other name, but it must be the rose of liberty that I want and not the artificial product. Votes: 0

A samagra gramsevak must know everybody living in the village and render them such service as he possibly can. Votes: 0

A satyagrahi cannot go to law for a personal wrong. Votes: 0

A satyagrahi exhausts all other means before he resorts to satyagraha. Votes: 0

A satyagrahi has infinite patience, abundant faith in others, and ample hope. Votes: 0

A satyagrahi has no other stay but God, and he who has any other stay or depends on any other help cannot offer satyagraha. Votes: 0

A satyagrahi is dead to his body even before the enemy attempts to kill him. Votes: 0

A satyagrahi is nothing if not instinctively law-abiding. Votes: 0

A satyagrahi lays down his life, but never gives up. That is the meaning of the 'do or die' slogan. Votes: 0

A satyagrahi loves his so-called enemy even as he loves his friend. He has no enemy. Votes: 0

A satyagrahi must ceaselessly strive to realize and live truth. And he must never contemplate hurting anyone by thought, word or deed. Votes: 0

A satyagrahi should have a living faith in God. Votes: 0

A satyagrahi turns the searchlight inward relentlessly to weed out all the defects that may be lying hidden there still. Votes: 0

A satyagrahi would neither retaliate nor would he submit to the criminal, but seek to cure him by curing himself. Votes: 0

A satyagrahi, whilst he is ever ready to fight, must be equally eager for peace. Votes: 0

A seeker after truth, a follower of the law of Love, cannot hold anything against tomorrow. Votes: 0

A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution. Votes: 0

A semi-starved nation can have neither religion nor art nor organization. Votes: 0

A slave has not the freedom even to do the right thing. Votes: 0

A slave-holder cannot hold a slave without putting himself or his deputy in the cage for holding the slave. Votes: 0

A smattering of English is worse than useless; it is an unnecessary tax on our women. Votes: 0

A soldier fights with an irresistible strength when he has blown up his bridges and burnt his boats. Even so, it is with a soldier of ahimsa. Votes: 0

A spirit is not necessarily purer, because it is disembodied. Votes: 0

A straight fight in an equal battle takes some bravery, but braver is he who, knowing that he would have to sacrifice ninety-five as against five of the enemy, faces death. Votes: 0

A successful bloody revolution can only mean further misery for the masses. Votes: 0

A successful search for truth means complete deliverance from the dual throng, such as of love and hate, happiness and misery. Votes: 0

A Swaraj government means a government established by the free joint will of Hindus, Mussalmans and others. Votes: 0

A teacher who establishes rapport with the taught, becomes one with them, learns more from them than he teaches them. He who learns nothing from his disciples is, in my opinion, worthless. Whenever I talk with someone I learn from him. I take from him more than I give him. In this way, a true teacher regards himself as a student of his students. If you will teach your pupils with this attitude, you will benefit much from them. Votes: 0

A teacher who establishes rapport with the taught, becomes one with them, learns more from them than he teaches them. Votes: 0

A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be spread without diminishing that of yourself. Votes: 0

A true and nonviolent combination of labour would act like a magnet attracting to it all the needed capital. Votes: 0

A true Brahmachari will not even dream of satisfying the fleshly appetite Votes: 0

A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings. Votes: 0

A true soldier does not argue as he marches, how success is going to be ultimately achieved. But he is confident that if he only plays his humble part well, somehow or other the battle will be won. In is that spirit that every one of us should act. It is not given to us to know the future. But it is given to everyone of us to know how to do our own part well. Votes: 0

A truly nonviolent man would never live to tell the tale of atrocities. He would have laid down his life on the spot in non-violent resistance. Votes: 0

A votary of ahimsa always prays for ultimate deliverance from the bondage of the flesh. Votes: 0

A votary of ahimsa cannot subscribe to the utilitarian formula (of the greatest good of the greatest number). He will strive for the greatest good of all and die in the attempt to realize that ideal. Votes: 0

A vow must lead one upwards, never downwards towards perdition. Votes: 0

A warrior lives on his wars, whether offensive or defensive. And he suffers a collapse if he finds that his warring capacity is unwanted. Votes: 0

A woman's intuition has often proved truer than a man's arrogant assumption of knowledge. Votes: 0

A worker's capital is inexhaustible, incapable of being stolen, and bound to pay him a generous dividend all the time. Votes: 0

A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt. Votes: 0

Absolute calm is not the law of ocean. And it is the same with the ocean of life. Votes: 0

Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it. Votes: 0

According to the letter of the Gita, it is possible to say that warfare is consistent with renunciation of fruit. Votes: 0

Active nonviolence of the brave puts to flight thieves, dacoits, murderers, and prepares an army of volunteers ready to sacrifice themselves in quelling riots, in extinguishing fires and feuds, and so on. Votes: 0

Adversity is the mother of progress. Votes: 0

After long study and experience, I have come to the conclusion that (1) all religions are true; (2) all religions have some error in them; (3) all religions are almost as dear to me as my own Hinduism, in as much as all human beings should be as dear to one as one's own close relatives. Votes: 0

Ahimsa and Truth are my two lungs. I cannot live without them. Votes: 0

Ahimsa and Truth are so intertwined that it is practically impossible to disentangle and separate them. Votes: 0

Ahimsa calls for the strength and courage to suffer without retaliation, to receive blows without returning any. Votes: 0

Ahimsa can be practiced only towards those that are inferior to you in every way. Votes: 0

Ahimsa in theory no one knows. It is as indefinable as God. Votes: 0

Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science. Votes: 0

Ahimsa is my God, and Truth is my God. Votes: 0

Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience. Votes: 0

Ahimsa is not a matter of mere dietetics: it transcends it. Votes: 0

Ahimsa is nothing if not a well-balanced, exquisite consideration for one's neighbour, and an idle man is wanting in that elementary consideration. Votes: 0

Ahimsa is one of the world's great principles, which no power on earth can wipe out. Votes: 0

Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill. Votes: 0

Ahimsa is the height of Kshatriya dharma as it represents the climax of fearlessness. Votes: 0

Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly. Votes: 0

Ahimsa is the strongest force known. Votes: 0

Ahimsa magnifies one's own defects, and minimizes those of the opponent. It regards the mole in one's own eye as a beam and the beam in the opponent's eye as a mole. Votes: 0

Ahimsa means infinite love, which again means infinite capacity for suffering. Votes: 0

Ahimsa must be placed before everything else while it is professed. Then alone it becomes irresistible. Votes: 0

Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face. Votes: 0

All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles. Votes: 0

All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such. Votes: 0

All education in a country has got to be demonstrably in promotion of the progress of the country in which it is given. Votes: 0

All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error. Votes: 0

All good thoughts and ideas mean nothing without action Votes: 0

All great religions have rightly regarded kama as the arch-enemy of man, anger or hatred coming only in the second place. Votes: 0

All have not the same capacity. I would allow a man of intellect to earn more, I would not cramp his talent. Votes: 0

All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul. Votes: 0

All I want to say, with the utmost emphasis at my command, is that the description of India as a military country is wrong. Votes: 0

All my actions have their rise in my inalienable love of mankind. Votes: 0

All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body. Votes: 0

All our philosophy is as dry as dust if it is not immediately translated into some act of living service. Votes: 0

All religions are branches of the same mighty tree, but I must not change over from one branch to another for the sake of expediency. Votes: 0

All religions teach that two opposite forces act upon us and the human endeavour consists in a series of eternal rejections and acceptances. Votes: 0

All religions were, at bottom, one, though they differed in detail and outward form like the leaves on a tree. Votes: 0

All sins are committed in secrecy. The moment we realize that God witnesses even our thoughts, we shall be free. Votes: 0

All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation. Votes: 0

All the dry ethics of the world turn to dust because apart from God they are lifeless. Votes: 0

All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint. Votes: 0

All the great religions of the world inculcate equality and brotherhood of mankind and the virtue of toleration. Votes: 0

All the other industries will receive warmth and sustenance from khadi industry. Votes: 0

All the religions of the world describe God pre-eminently as the Friend of the friendless, Help of the helpless, and Protector of the weak. Votes: 0

All true art must help the soul to realize its inner self. Votes: 0

All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful. Votes: 0

All your scholarship would be in vain if at the same time you do not build your character and attain mastery over your thoughts and your actions. Votes: 0

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. If we want the Arms Act to be repealed, if we want to learn the use of arms, here is a golden opportunity. If the middle classes render voluntary help to Government in the hour of its trial, distrust will disappear, and the ban on possessing arms will be withdrawn. Votes: 0

An awakened people who rely upon their nonviolent strength are independent in the face of any conceivable combination of the armed powers. Votes: 0

An education which does not teach us to discriminate between good and bad, to assimilate the one and eschew the other, is a misnomer Votes: 0

An error can never become true however many times you repeat it. The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it. Votes: 0

An ideal sanctified by the sacrifices of such master spirits as Lenin cannot go in vain, the noble example of their renunciation will be emblazoned for ever and quicken and purify the ideal as time passes. Votes: 0

An India awakened and free has a message of peace and goodwill to a groaning world. Votes: 0

An India free from exploitation from within and without must prosper with astonishing rapidity. Votes: 0

An India prostrate at the feet of Europe can give no hope to humanity. Votes: 0

An institution that suffers from a plethora of leaders is surely in a bad way. Votes: 0

An opponent is entitled to the same regard for his principles as we would expect others to have for ours. Non-violence demands that we should see every opportunity to win over opponents. Votes: 0

And he who would be friends with God must remain alone, or make the whole world his friend Votes: 0

And whilst he may not claim superiority by reason of learning, I myself must not withold that meed of homage that learning, wherever it resides, always commands. Votes: 0

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. You must be the change you wish to see in the world. Votes: 0

Animal experimentation is the blackest of all the black crimes that a man is at present committing... We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings... I abhor [animal] experimentation with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence... The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. Votes: 0

Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa. Votes: 0

Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion. Votes: 0

Anything that exists is possible. Votes: 0

Anything which is a hindrance to the fight of the soul is a delusion and a snare, even like the body which often does hinder you in the path of salvation. Votes: 0

Apparently, I've acted like a terrorist. But I'm not a terrorist. Votes: 0

Appreciation of nonviolence means patient research and still more patient and difficult practice. Votes: 0

Armed conspiracies against something satanic is like matching Satans against Satan. Votes: 0

Art to be art must soothe. Votes: 0

As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books. Votes: 0

As a splendid palace deserted by its inmates looks like a ruin, so does a man without character, all his material belongings notwithstanding. Votes: 0

As in laws or in war, the longest purse finally wins. Votes: 0

As long as you are trying your very best, there can be no question of failure. Votes: 0

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it. Votes: 0

As soon as we become one with the ocean in the shape of God, there is no more rest for us, nor indeed do we need rest any longer. Votes: 0

As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality. Votes: 0

As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality. Man, for instance, cannot be untruthful, cruel or incontinent and claim to have God on his side. Votes: 0

As the elephant is powerless to think in the terms of the ant, in spite of the best intentions in the world, even so is the Englishman powerless to think in the terms of, or legislate for, the Indian. Votes: 0

As the means, so the end. Votes: 0

Ashram means a community of men of religion. I feel that an ashram was a necessity of life for me. Votes: 0

Assumption of superiority by any person over any other is a sin against God and man. Votes: 0

At the centre of nonviolence is a force which is self-acting. Votes: 0

At the moment the British Common-wealth is a Commonwealth of White nation. Votes: 0

At times of writing I never think what I have said before. My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question, but to be consistent with truth as it may present itself to me at a given moment. The result has been that I have grown from truth to truth. Votes: 0

At times, non-co-operation becomes as much a duty as co-operation. Votes: 0

Be congruent, be authentic, be your true self. Votes: 0

Be the change that you want to see Votes: 0

Be the change you are trying to create. Votes: 0

Be the change you seek. Votes: 0

Be the change you're trying to create Votes: 0

Be the compromise you want to see in the world. Votes: 0

Because no one sees the truth does not make it untrue. Votes: 0

Before [Hindus and Moslems] dare think of freedom, they must be brave enough to love one another, to tolerate one another's religion, even prejudices and superstitions, and to trust one another. This requires faith in oneself. Votes: 0

Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience. Votes: 0

Before we can aspire to guide the destinies of India, we shall have to adopt the habit of fearlessness. Votes: 0

Begin with duties of a man and rights will follow as spring follows winter Votes: 0

Begin your day with prayer, and make it so soulful that it may remain with you until the evening. Votes: 0

Behaviour is the mirror in which we can display our image. Votes: 0

Behind my non-cooperation there is always the keenest desire to cooperate on the slightest pretext even with the worst of opponents. To me, a very imperfect mortal, ever in need of God's grace, no one is beyond redemption. Votes: 0

Being dissatisfied and properly dissatisfied with the husk of Hinduism, you are in danger of losing even the kernel, life itself. Votes: 0

Belief in non-violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love ... Votes: 0

Belief in one God is the cornerstone of all religions. Votes: 0

Better than cowardice is killing and being killed in battle. Votes: 0

Between the two, the nationalist and the imperialist, there is no meeting ground. Votes: 0

Birth-control through self-restraint is the most desirable, sensible and totally harmless method. Votes: 0

Boycott brought about anyhow of British cloth cannot yield the same results as such boycott brought about by hand-spinning and khaddar. Votes: 0

Boycott of foreign cloth through picketing may easily be violent; through the use of khadi it is most natural and absolutely nonviolent. Votes: 0

Bravery is not a quality of the body. It is of the soul. Votes: 0

Bravery is not man's monopoly. Votes: 0

Bravery on the battlefield is impossible for us. Bravery of the soul still remains open to us. Votes: 0

Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth. Votes: 0

Britain's success in the exploitation of non-European races raised the ambition of Bismarck and later Mussolini and others. Votes: 0

Buddha emphasized and re-declared the eternal and unalterable existence of the moral government of this universe. He unhesitatingly said that the law was God Himself. Votes: 0

Buddha never rejected Hinduism, but he broadened its base. He gave it a new life and a new interpretation. Votes: 0

Buddha renounced every worldly happiness because he wanted to share with the whole world his happiness which was to be had by men who sacrificed and suffered in the search for truth. Votes: 0

Buddhism in one long prayer. Votes: 0

Bullies are always to be found where there are cowards. Votes: 0

But I never again went through this street. There would be other men coming in this man's place and, ignorant of the incident, they would behave likewise. Why should I unnecessarily court another kick? I therefore selected a different walk. Votes: 0

But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth. Votes: 0

But success and failure are of no account. They are God's concern, not mine. Votes: 0

But the fact that I had learnt to be tolerant to other religions did not mean that I had any living faith in God. Votes: 0

But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep. Votes: 0

By ahimsa we will be able to save the cow and also win the friendship of the English. Votes: 0

By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit. Votes: 0

By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere. Votes: 0

By patriotism I mean the welfare of the whole people, if I secure it at the hands of my opponent, I should bow down my head to him. Votes: 0

By Ram Raj I do not mean Hindu Raj. I mean by Ram Raj, Divine Raj, the Kingdom of God. Votes: 0

By spiritual training I mean education of the heart. Votes: 0

By using violence to subjugate one another we are using violence against our own souls. Votes: 0

Calling them devadasis we insult God Himself in the name of religion. Votes: 0

Can a general fight on the strength of soldiers, who, he knows, have no faith in him? Votes: 0

Capital exploits the labour of a few to multiply itself. Votes: 0

Carrying arms for the removal of the Arms Act can never fall under any scheme of nonviolence. Votes: 0

Celebration of Independence Day with great pomp and show was quite appropriate when we were fighting for independence which we had neither seen nor handled. Now we have handled it and we seem to be disillusioned. At least - I am, even if you are not. What are we celebrating today? Surely, not our disillusionment. Votes: 0

Cent percent swadeshi gives sufficient scope for the most insatiable ambition for service and a satisfaction of every kind of talent. Votes: 0

Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-violent structure of society. Votes: 0

Change occurs when deeply felt private experiences are given public legitimacy. Votes: 0

Character alone will have real effect on the masses. Votes: 0

Charkha is an instrument of service. Votes: 0

Children inherit the qualities of the parents, no less than their physical features. Environment does play an important part, but the original capital on which a child starts in life is inherited from its ancestors. I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul. Votes: 0

Christianity in India is inextricably mixed up for the last hundred and fifty years with the British rule. Votes: 0

Civil disobedience and excitement and intoxication go ill together. Votes: 0

Civil disobedience can only lead to strength and purity. Votes: 0

Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly. Votes: 0

Civil disobedience is a preparation for mute suffering. Votes: 0

Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government, but that it is also a substitute for violence or armed rebellion. Votes: 0

Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies. Votes: 0

Civil disobedience is the inherent right of a citizen. Votes: 0

Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence. Votes: 0

Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing. Votes: 0

Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke. Votes: 0

Civility does not ...mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do the opponent good. Votes: 0

Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty. Votes: 0

Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty. Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms. To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions. So doing, we know ourselves. Votes: 0

Civilization is the encouragement of differences. Votes: 0

Civilizations have come and gone and, in spite of our vaunted progress, I am tempted to ask again and again, 'To what purpose?' Votes: 0

Coal is not dear for the coal-miner who can use it there and then, nor is khadi dear for the villager who manufactures his own khadi. Votes: 0

Coercion cannot but result in chaos in the end. Votes: 0

Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use. Votes: 0

Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law. Votes: 0

Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help. Votes: 0

Complete independence through truth and non-violence means the independence of every unit, be it the humblest of the nation, without distinction of race, colour or creed. Votes: 0

Complete independence will be complete only to the extent of our approach in practice to truth and nonviolence. Votes: 0

Complete non-violence is complete absence of ill-will against all that lives. It therefore embraces even sub-human life, not excluding noxious insects and beasts. They have not been created to feed our destructive propensities. If we only knew the mind of the Creator, we should find their proper place in His creation. Votes: 0

Compulsory obedience to a master is a state of slavery, willing obedience to one's father is the glory of son ship. Votes: 0

Concentrate on your task. Votes: 0

Confession of one's guilt purifies and uplifts. Its suppression is degrading and should always be avoided. Votes: 0

Conquer the heart of the enemy with truth and love, not by violence. Votes: 0

Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large. Votes: 0

Conservation of national sanitation is Swaraj work and it may not be postponed for a single day on any consideration whatsoever. Votes: 0

Continue to grow and evolve. Votes: 0

Contraceptives are an insult to womanhood. Votes: 0

Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today. Votes: 0

Could there be a greater proof of our cowardice than fighting amongst ourselves? Votes: 0

Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence. Votes: 0

Cow preservation is an article of faith in Hinduism. Votes: 0

Cow protection is the gift of Hinduism to the world. Votes: 0

Cow protection means protection of the weak, the helpless, the dumb and the deaf. Votes: 0

Cow protection to me is infinitely more than mere protection of the cow. Votes: 0

Cow protection to me is one of the most wonderful phenomena in the human evolution. Votes: 0

Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the government of the day, to do the work of defense for him. A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women. Votes: 0

Cowardice is incompatible with divine wisdom. Votes: 0

Cowardice is not a sign of belief in God. Votes: 0

Cowards can never be moral. Votes: 0

Cow-protection can only be secured by cultivating universal friendliness, i.e. ahimsa. Votes: 0

Cow-slaughter and man-slaughter are in my opinion two sides of the same coin. Votes: 0

Cow-slaughter can never be stopped by law. Votes: 0

Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence. Votes: 0

Death is at any time blessed but it is twice blessed for a warrior who dies for his cause, that is, truth. Votes: 0

Death is no fiend, he is the truest of friends. He delivers us from agony. Votes: 0

Death on the battlefield is welcome to a soldier. Votes: 0

Decency and tolerance, to be of any value, must be capable of withstanding the severest strain. Votes: 0

Decency requires that when a programme is approved by the majority, all should carry it out faithfully. Votes: 0

Deeds and seeds, take their own time to fructify. Votes: 0

Democracy and dependence on the military and police are incompatible. Votes: 0

Democracy and violence can ill go together. Votes: 0

Democracy can only represent the average if not less than the average. Votes: 0

Democracy comes naturally to him who is habituated normally to yield willing obedience to all laws, human or divine. Votes: 0

Democracy demands patient instruction on it before legislation. Votes: 0

Democracy disciplined and enlightened is the finest thing in the world. A democracy prejudiced, ignorant, superstitious, will land itself in chaos and may be self-destroyed. Votes: 0

Democracy is a great institution and, therefore, it is liable to be greatly abused. Votes: 0

Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy. Votes: 0

Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep. Votes: 0

Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas. Votes: 0

Democracy will break under the strain of apron strings. It can exist only on trust. Votes: 0

Democracy, disciplined and enlightened, is the finest thing in the world. Votes: 0

Desirelessness or renunciation does not come for the mere talking about it. Votes: 0

Destruction of the churches and the like is not the way to Swaraj as defined by the Congress. Votes: 0

Detachment is not indifference. it is the prerequisite for effective involvement. Often what we think is best for others is distorted by our attachments to our opinions. We want others to be happy in the way we think they should be happy. It is only when we want nothing for ourselves that we are able to see clearly into others needs and understand how to serve them. Votes: 0

Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness. Votes: 0

Devotion to Truth is the sole justification for our existence. Votes: 0

Dharma is that which is enjoined by the holy books, followed by the sages, interpreted by the learned and which appeals to the heart. Votes: 0

Dining and marriage restrictions stunt Hindu society. Votes: 0

Disease increases in proportion to the increase in the number of doctors in a place. Votes: 0

Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation. Votes: 0

Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent. Votes: 0

Disobedience, to be civil, implies discipline, thought, care, attention. Votes: 0

Disorder and violence are, in fact, things that might check the pace of India's progress. Votes: 0

Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter. Votes: 0

Diversity there certainly is in the world, but it means neither inequality nor untouchability. Votes: 0

Do not believe in telling people of one's faith, especially with a view to conversion. Faith must be lived, and when it is, it becomes self-propagating Votes: 0

Do not concentrate on showing the misdeeds of the government, for we have to convert and befriend those who run it. Votes: 0

Do not crave to know the views of others, nor base your intent thereon. To think independently for yourself is a sign of fearlessness. Votes: 0

Do not flatter yourselves with the belief that a mere recital of that celebrated verse in St. John makes a man a Christian. Votes: 0

Do not judge others. Be your own judge and you will be truly happy. If you will try to judge others, you are likely to burn your fingers. Votes: 0

Do not worry about what others are doing! Each of us should turn the searchlight inward and purify his or her own heart as much as possible. Votes: 0

Do you think I am superstitious? I am a super-atheist. Votes: 0

Does not the history of the world show that there would have been no romance in life if there had been no risks? Votes: 0

Domestic matters are trifles for us. But they occupy the principal part of my life. They teach me to know my limitations. Votes: 0

Don't listen to friends when the Friend inside you says "Do this." Votes: 0

Don't talk about it. The rose doesn't have to propagate its perfume. It just gives it forth, and people are drawn to it. Live it, and people will come to see the source of your power. Votes: 0

Doubt is invariably the result of want or weakness of faith. Votes: 0

Drink is not a fashion in India, as it is in the West. Votes: 0

Earth and heaven are in us Votes: 0

Economics that hurt the moral well-being of an individual or a nation are immoral and, therefore, sinful. Votes: 0

Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest. Votes: 0

Education is the basic tool for the development of consciousness and the reconstitution of society. Votes: 0

Education should be so revolutionized as to answer the wants of the poorest villager, instead of answering those of an imperial exploiter. Votes: 0

Education without courage is like a wax statue - beautiful to look at but bound to melt at the first touch of a hot stuff. Votes: 0

Equality of sexes does not mean equality of occupations. Votes: 0

Ethically they had arrived at the conclusion that man's supremacy over lower animals meant not that the former should prey upon the latter, but that the higher should protect the lower, and that there should be mutual aid between the two as between man and man. They had also brought out the truth that man eats not for enjoyment but to live. Votes: 0

Even a believer in nonviolence has to say between two combatants which is less bad or whose cause is just. Votes: 0

Even a little of dharma saves one from many a pitfall. Votes: 0

Even a little untruth destroys a man, as a drop of poison ruins milk. Votes: 0

Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness. Votes: 0

Even as satyagraha is a weapon unique of its kind and not one of the ordinary weapons used by people, so is Khadi, a unique article of commerce which will not, cannot, succeed on terms common to other articles. Votes: 0

Even if masses of people were to burn khadi publicly and say that it is an insane programme, I will declare that those people have gone mad. Votes: 0

Even if the whole of India, ranged on one side, were to declare that Hindu-Muslim unity is impossible, I will declare that it is perfectly possible. Votes: 0

Even Ramanama is by itself lifeless, but it has become a living symbol of the deity because millions of people have consecrated it. Votes: 0

Even swadeshi, like any other good thing, can be ridden to death if it is made a fetish. Votes: 0

Even the atheists, who have pretended to disbelieve in God, have believed in Truth. Votes: 0

Even the dog is described by the poet to have received justice under Ramarajya. Votes: 0

Even the most sublime ideas sound ridiculous if heard too often. Be the change that you want to see in the world. Votes: 0

Every affliction has its own rich lesson to teach, if we would learn it. Votes: 0

Every calamity should lead to a thorough cleansing of individual as well as social life. Votes: 0

Every expression of truth has in it the seeds of propagation, even as the sun cannot hide its light. Votes: 0

Every fight is one between different angles of vision illuminating the same truth. Votes: 0

Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect. Votes: 0

Every Hindu boy and girl should possess sound Samskrit learning. Votes: 0

Every labourer is worthy of his hire. No country can produce thousands of unpaid whole-time workers. Votes: 0

Every man has an equal right to the necessaries of life even as birds and beasts have. Votes: 0

Every moment of my existence is dedicated to the winning of Swaraj by means of truth and nonviolence. Votes: 0

Every moment of my life I realize that God is putting me on my trial. Votes: 0

Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity. Votes: 0

Every person in a well-ordered state is fully conscious of both his responsibilities and his rights. Votes: 0

Every person, as every institution, and, above all, every religion is to be judged not by the amount of atrocities or the wrong committed but by the right conduct. Votes: 0

Every reform means awakening. Once truly awakened, the nation will not be satisfied with reform only in one department of life. Votes: 0

Every single act of one who would lead a life of purity should be in the nature of yajna. Votes: 0

Every species, human and subhuman, has some distinguishing mark, so that you can tell a man from a beast, or a dog from a cow. Votes: 0

Every truth is self-acting and possesses inherent strength. Votes: 0

Every widow I have met has recognized in the wheel a dear forgotten friend. Votes: 0

Every woman will tell the curious that with the disappearance of the spinning wheel vanished India's happiness and prosperity. Votes: 0

Everyone holds a piece of the truth. Votes: 0

Everyone wants to be strong and self sufficient, but few are willing to put in the work necessary to achieve worthy goals. Votes: 0

Everything I have personally experienced, and that also has been expressed by the leaders of the great religions points to the fact that a global spirituality already exists and was intrinsically there from the start as God (by whatever name) is one and is indivisible - everywhere outside time and place. Votes: 0

Everything that we do is insignificant...and...it is very important that we do it! Votes: 0

Everything we do is futile, but we must do it anyway. Votes: 0

Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side. Votes: 0

Execution of the constructive programme in its entirety means more than Swaraj. It means Ram Raj, Khudai Sultanat or the Divine Kingdom. Votes: 0

Exercise of faith will be the safest where there is a clear determination summarily to reject all that is contrary to truth and love. Votes: 0

Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth & violence. Even if my belief is a fond delusion, it will be admitted that it is a fascinating delusion. Votes: 0

Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children. Votes: 0

Exploitation and domination of one nation over another can have no place in a world striving to put an end to all war. Votes: 0

Exploitation of the poor can be extinguished not by effecting the destruction of a few millionaires, but by removing the ignorance of the poor and teaching them to non-cooperate with their exploiters. Votes: 0

External fears cease of their own accord when once we have conquered these traitors within the camp. Votes: 0

Eye for eye and the world will go blind. Votes: 0

Facts we would always place before our readers, whether they are palatable or not, and it is by placing them constantly before the public in their nakedness that the misunderstanding between the two communities in South Africa can be removed. Votes: 0

Faith alone is the sun of life. Votes: 0

Faith becomes lame, when it ventures into matters pertaining to reason! Votes: 0

Faith is a function of the heart. It must be enforced by reason. The two are not antagonistic as some think. The more intense one's faith is, the more it whets one's reason. When faith becomes blind it dies. Votes: 0

Faith is a function of the heart.... Votes: 0

Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason. Votes: 0

Faith is not imparted like secular subjects. It is given through the language of the heart. Votes: 0

Faith is put to the test when the situation is most difficult. Votes: 0

Faith is the function of the heart. Votes: 0

Far more indispensable then food for the physical body is spiritual nourishment for the soul. One can do without food for a considerable time, but a man of the spirit cannot exist for a single second without spiritual nourishment. Votes: 0

Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion. Votes: 0

Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint. Votes: 0

Fear gone, there can be no hatred. Votes: 0

Fear has its use, but cowardice has none. I may not put my finger into the jaws of a snake, but the very sight of the snake need not strike terror into me. Votes: 0

Fear is not a disease of the body; fear kills the soul. Votes: 0

Fear of disease killed more men than disease itself. Votes: 0

Few men are wantonly wicked. Votes: 0

Fight if you must on the path of righteousness and God will be with you. Votes: 0

Final Satyagraha is inconceivable without an honorable peace between the several communities composing the Indian nation. Votes: 0

Find purpose. The means will follow. Votes: 0

Find yourself by losing yourself for others. Votes: 0

First they ignore you, then they denounce you, and then they say that they knew what you were saying all the time. Votes: 0

For a fallen India to aspire to move the world and protect the weaker races is seemingly an impertinence. Votes: 0

For a firm believer in swadeshi, there need be no Pharisaical self-satisfaction in wearing khadi. Votes: 0

For a nonviolent struggle, there is no age limit. The blind, the maimed and the bed-ridden may serve, and not only men but women also. Votes: 0

For every minute that I spin, there is in me the consciousness that I am adding to the nation's wealth. Votes: 0

For Hindus to expect Islam, Christianity or Zoroastrianism to be driven out of India is as idle a dream as it would be for Mussalmans to have only Islam of their imagination rule the world. Votes: 0

For India to enter into the race for armaments is to court suicide. Votes: 0

For me nonviolence is a creed. I must act up to it, whether I am alone or have companions. Votes: 0

For me patriotism is the sme as humanity. I am patriotic because I am human and humane. It is not exclusive. I will not hurt England or Germany to serve India . . . My patriotism is inclusive and admits of no enmity or ill-will. Votes: 0

For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence. Votes: 0

For me the only certain means of knowing God is nonviolence, ahimsa, love. Votes: 0

For me the present is merged in eternity. I may not sacrifice the latter for the present. Votes: 0

For me the Voice of God, of Conscience, of Truth or the Inner Voice or the still small Voice mean one and the same thing. Votes: 0

For me to dominate the Congress in spite of these fundamental differences is almost a species of violence which I must refrain from. Votes: 0

For me, Rama and Rahim are one and the same deity. Votes: 0

For me, Rama and Rahim are one and the same deity. I acknowledge no other God but the one God of truth and righteousness. Votes: 0

For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of Englishmen. Votes: 0

For satyagraha and its offshoots, non-co-operation and civil resistance, are nothing but new names for the law of suffering. Votes: 0

For the courage of self-sacrifice, woman is any time superior to man, as I believe man is to woman for the courage of the brute. Votes: 0

For the poor, the economic is spiritual. Votes: 0

For thousands to do to death a few hundreds is no bravery. It is worse than cowardice. It is unworthy of nationalism, of any religion. Votes: 0

For us, patriotism is the same as the love of humanity. Votes: 0

For winning Swaraj one requires iron discipline. Votes: 0

Force that the performance of duty naturally generates is the non-violent and invincible force that satyagraha brings into being. Votes: 0

Forgiveness is choosing to love. Votes: 0

Free, open love I have looked upon as dog's love. Secret love is, besides, cowardly. Votes: 0

Freedom and slavery are mental states. Votes: 0

Freedom battles are not fought without paying heavy prices. Votes: 0

Freedom from all attachment is the realization of God as Truth. Votes: 0

Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves. Votes: 0

Freedom of India will demonstrate to all the exploited races of the earth that their freedom is very near. Votes: 0

Freedom of the press is a precious privilege that no country can forego. Votes: 0

Freedom of worship, even of public speech, would become a farce if interference became the order of the day. Votes: 0

Freedom received though the efforts of others, however benevolent, cannot be retained when such effort is withdrawn. Votes: 0

Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be. Votes: 0

Full effort is full victory. Votes: 0

Further march of civilization seems to employ increasing domination of man over beast, together with a growingly humane method of using them. Votes: 0

Genuine laughter is true eloquence and more effective than speech Votes: 0

Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing letters, etc. Votes: 0

Go for the throat. If you cant, go for the nads. Votes: 0

God accepts the sacrifice of the pure in heart. Votes: 0

God alone is immortal, imperishable. Votes: 0

God alone is the judge of true greatness because He knows men's hearts. Votes: 0

God alone is truth, everything else is transitory and illusory. Votes: 0

God alone knows absolute Truth. Votes: 0

God always saves the world from the consequences of unintended errors of men who live in fear of Him. Votes: 0

God can never be realized by one who is not pure of heart. Votes: 0

God cannot be realized through intellect. Votes: 0

God cannot be so cruel and unjust as to make the distinctions of high and low between man and man, and woman and woman. Votes: 0

God chooses as His instrument the humblest and weakest of His creatures to fulfill Himself. Votes: 0

God comes to the hungry in the form of food. Votes: 0

God created man to work for his food and said that those who ate without work were thieves. Votes: 0

God demands nothing less than self - surrender as the price for the only real freedom that is worth having. Votes: 0

God does not punish directly. His ways are inscrutable. Votes: 0

God forbid that India should ever become a military nation, which would be a menace to the peace of the world, and yet if things went on as they were doing, what hope was there for India and, therefore, for the world? Votes: 0

God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts. Votes: 0

God gifted man with intellect so that he might know his Maker. Man abused it so that he might forget his Maker. Votes: 0

God has a thousand names, or rather He is Nameless. Votes: 0

God has been described by all the scriptures of the world as protector and saviour of the sinner. Votes: 0

God has blessed man with seed that has the highest potency and woman with a field richer than the richest earth to be found anywhere on his globe. Votes: 0

God has enabled man to distinguish between his sister, his mother, his daughter and his wife. Votes: 0

God has enabled me to affect the life of the country since 1920 without the necessity of office. Votes: 0

God has given us only a limited sphere of action and a limited vision. Votes: 0

God has His own way of choosing His instruments. Votes: 0

God has so ordered this world that no one can keep his goodness or badness exclusively to himself. Votes: 0

God Himself has reserved no right of revision of His own laws nor is there any need for Him for any such revision. Votes: 0

God in his wisdom circumscribed man's vision, and rightly too, for otherwise man's conceit would know no bounds. Votes: 0

God is always the upholder of justice. Votes: 0

God is certainly one. He has no second. He is unfathomable, unknowable and unknown to the vast majority of mankind. Votes: 0

God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist. Votes: 0

God is continuously in action, without resting for a single moment. Votes: 0

God is Light, not darkness. God is Love, not hate. God is truth, not untruth. God alone is great. Votes: 0

God is not a person. God is an eternal principle. Votes: 0

God is not a Power residing in the clouds. He is an unseen Power residing within us and nearer to us than finger nails to the flesh. Votes: 0

God is not in Kaaba or in Kashi. He is within everyone of us. Votes: 0

God is not in strength but in truth. Votes: 0

God is not outside this earthly case of ours. Votes: 0

God is omnipresent; even a pebble in the Narmada can represent Him and serve as an object of worship. Votes: 0

God is that indefinable something which we all feel but which we do not know. Votes: 0

God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth and He tries you through and through. Votes: 0

God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth, and he tries you through and through. And when you find that your faith is failing or your body is failing you, and you are sinking, he comes to your assistance somehow or other and proves to you that you must not lose your faith and that he is always at your beck and call, but on his terms, not on your terms. So I have found. I cannot really recall a single instance when, at the eleventh hour, he has forsaken me. Votes: 0

God is the shield of the nonviolent. Votes: 0

God is the source of Light and Life and yet He is above and beyond all these. God is conscience. Votes: 0

God is the vital force or spirit which is all-pervading, all-embracing and, therefore, beyond human ken. Votes: 0

God is Truth, Truth is God. Votes: 0

God lives, but not as we. His creatures live but to die. But God is life. Therefore, goodness is not an attribute. Goodness is God. Votes: 0

God makes crooked straight for us and sets things right when they seem to go dead wrong. Votes: 0

God never occurs to you in person but always in action. Votes: 0

God of Truth and Justice can never create distinctions of high and low among His own children. Votes: 0

God resides in every human form, indeed in every particle of His creations, in everything that is on his earth. Votes: 0

God rules even where Satan seems to hold sway, because the latter exists only on God's sufferance. Votes: 0

God speaks to us every day only we don't know how to listen. Votes: 0

God the Compassionate and the Merciful, Tolerance incarnate, allows Mammon to have his nine days' wonder. Votes: 0

God to be God must rule the heart and transform it. Votes: 0

God took and needed no personal service. He served His creatures without demanding any service for Himself in return. Votes: 0

God tries his votaries through and through but never beyond endurance. He gives them strength enough to go through the ordeal he prescribes for them. Votes: 0

God turns His back on those who quarrel among themselves. Votes: 0

God will cease to be God, if he brought into being a single person with the hall-mark of inferiority. Votes: 0

God will not be God, if He allowed Himself to be the object of proof by His creatures. Votes: 0

God's grace and revelation are the monopoly of no race or nation. Votes: 0

God's laws are eternal and unalterable and not separable from God Himself. Votes: 0

God's time never stops. Votes: 0

God's ways are more than Man's arithmetic. Votes: 0

God's word is : He who strives never perishes. Votes: 0

God's word is: 'He who strives never perishes.' I have implicit faith in that promise. Though, therefore, from my weakness I fail a thousand times, I shall not lose faith. Votes: 0

Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal. Votes: 0

Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help"¦ Votes: 0

Government of the people by the people and for the people cannot be conducted at the bidding of one man, however great he may be. Votes: 0

Great causes cannot be served by intellectual equipment alone, they call for spiritual effort of soul-force. Votes: 0

H. G. Wells was not the only one to mention Churchill and Hitler in the same breath: "Churchill and Hitler are striving to change the nature of their respective countrymen by forcing and hammering violent methods on them. Man may be suppressed in this manner but he cannot be changed. Ahimsa [non-violence in the Hindu tradition], on the other hand, can change human nature and sooner than men like Churchill and Hitler." Votes: 0

Had we adopted non-violence as the weapon of the strong, because we realised that it was more effective than any other weapon, in fact the mightiest force in the world, we would have made use of its full potency and not have discarded it as soon as the fight against the British was over or we were in a position to wield conventional weapons. But as I have already said, we adopted it out of our helplessness. If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British. Votes: 0

Half-a-dozen or twenty cities of India alone working together cannot bring Swaraj. Votes: 0

Happiness eludes us if we run after it. Votes: 0

Happiness, the goal to which we all are striving is reached by endeavoring to make the lives of others happy, and if by renouncing the luxuries of life we can lighten the burdens of others.... surely the simplification of our wants is a thing greatly to be desired! And so, if instead of supposing that we must become hermits and dwellers in caves in order to practice simplicity, we set about simplifying our affairs, each according to his own convictions and opportunity, much good will result and the simple life will at once be established. Votes: 0

Harijan service is a duty the caste Hindus owe to themselves. Votes: 0

Hate the sin and not the sinner' is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world. Votes: 0

Hatred can be overcome only by love. Votes: 0

Hatred is never overcome by hatred but by love. Votes: 0

Hatred is not essential for nationalism. Race hatred will kill the real national spirit. Votes: 0

He is no God who merely satisfies the intellect, if He ever does. Votes: 0

He who atones for sins never calculates; he pours out the whole essence of his contrite heart. Votes: 0

He who gives up action falls. He who gives up the reward rises. But renunciation of fruit in no way means indifference to the result. Votes: 0

He who has a living faith in God will not do evil deeds with name of God on his lips. Votes: 0

He who is ever brooding over result often loses nerve in the performance of his duty. Votes: 0

He who runs may see that opium and such other intoxicants and narcotics stupefy a man's soul and reduce him to a level lower than that of beasts. Votes: 0

He who runs to the doctor, vaidya, or hakim for every little ailment, and swallows all kinds of vegetable and mineral drugs, not only curtails his life, but by becoming the slave of his body instead of remaining its master, loses self-control, and ceases to be a man. Votes: 0

He who spins before the poor, inviting them to do likewise, serves God as no one else does. Votes: 0

He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa. Votes: 0

He who trusts has never yet lost in the world. A suspicious man is lost to himself and the eworld.... Suspicion is of the brood of violence. Non-violence cannot but trust... Votes: 0

He who would in his own person test the fact of God's presence can do so by a living faith. Votes: 0

Heroes are made in the hour of defeat Votes: 0

Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats. Votes: 0

High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship. Votes: 0

Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent. Votes: 0

Hindu religious literature, indeed all religious literature, is full of illustrations to prove the truth. Votes: 0

Hinduism does not rest on the authority of one book or one prophet, nor does it posses a common creed like the Kalma. Votes: 0

Hinduism has absorbed the best of all the faiths of the world and in that sense Hinduism is not an exclusive religion. Votes: 0

Hinduism has become a conservative religion and, therefore, a mighty force because of the swadeshi spirit underlying it. Votes: 0

Hinduism is a living organism liable to growth and decay subject to the laws of Nature. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown into a vast tree with innumerable branches. The changes in the season affect it. It has its autumn and its summer, its winter and its spring. It is, and is not, based on scriptures. It does not derive its authority from one book. Non violence has found the highest expression and application in Hinduism. Votes: 0

Hinduism is a living organism. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown into a vast tree with innumerable branches. Knowledge is limitless and so also the application of truth. Everyday we add to our knowledge of the power of Atman (soul) and we shall keep on doing so. Votes: 0

Hinduism is not a codified religion. Votes: 0

Hinduism loses its right to make a universal appeal if it closes its temples to Harijans. Votes: 0

Hinduism with its message of ahimsa is to me the most glorious religion in the world. Votes: 0

Hinduism would not have been much of a religion if Rama had not steeled his heart against every temptation. Votes: 0

Hindus, if they want unity among different races, must have the courage to trust the minorities. Votes: 0

History is a record of perpetual wars, but we are now trying to make new history. Votes: 0

History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force. Votes: 0

Hitler is a scourge sent by God to punish men for their iniquities. Votes: 0

Hitler killed five million Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher's knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs. As it is, they succumbed anyway in their millions. Votes: 0

Honesty is incompatible with amassing a large fortune. Votes: 0

How can I even secretly harbour the thought that my neighbour's faith is inferior to mine? Votes: 0

How can I make difference so that I may bring peace to this world that I love and cherish so much? A name flickers instantly in my mind. Votes: 0

How do you know if the next act you are about to do is the right one or the wrong one? Consider the face of the poorest and most vulnerable human being that you have ever chanced upon, and ask yourself if the act that you contemplate will be of benefit to that person; and if it will be, it's the right thing to do, and if not, rethink it. Votes: 0

How heavy is the toll of sins and wrong that wealth, power and prestige exact from man. Votes: 0

However virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India. Votes: 0

Human dignity demands courage to defend oneself. Votes: 0

Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways. Votes: 0

Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways. I am sensible of the fact that they are indescribable and inscrutable. But if mortal man will dare to describe them, he has no better medium than his own inarticulate speech. Votes: 0

Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory. Votes: 0

Human society is a ceaseless growth, and unfoldment in terms of spirituality. Votes: 0

Humankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence. Hatred can be overcome only by love. Counter - hatred only increases the surface as well as the depth of hatred. Votes: 0

I am a Christian and a Hindu and a Muslim and a Jew. Votes: 0

I am a Hindu by birth. And yet I do not know much of Hinduism, and I know less of other religions. In fact I do not know where I am, and what is and what should be my belief. I intend to make a careful study of my own religion and, as far as I can, of others. Votes: 0

I am a man of peace. I believe in peace. But I do not want peace at any price. Votes: 0

I am a passionate seeker after truth which is but another name for God. Votes: 0

I am a poor mendicant. My earthly possessions consist of six spinning wheels, prison dishes, a can of goat's milk, six homespun loincloths and towels and my reputation, which cannot be worth much. Votes: 0

I am a proud staunch Sanatani Hindu. Votes: 0

I am a seasoned soldier of nonviolence, and I have evidence enough to sustain my faith. Votes: 0

I am conscious of my own limitations. That consciousness is my only strength. Votes: 0

I am endeavouring to see God through service of humanity; for I know that God is neither in heaven, nor down below, but in everyone. Votes: 0

I am just not thinking of India's deliverance. It will come, but will it be worth if England and France fall, or if they come out victorious over Germany ruined and humbled? Votes: 0

I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice. Votes: 0

I am not at all concerned with appearing to be consistent. In my pursuit after Truth I have discarded many ideas and learnt many new things. Votes: 0

I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain. Votes: 0

I am not conscious of a single experience throughout my three months' stay in England and Europe that made me feel that after all East is East and West is West. On the contrary, I have been convinced more than ever that human nature is much the same, no matter under what clime it flourishes, and that if you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold affection returned to you. Votes: 0

I am not fighting machinery as such, but the madness of thinking that machinery saves labor. Men save labor until thousands of them are without work and die of hunger on the streets. I want to secure employment and livelihood not only to part of the human race, but for all. I will not have the enrichment of a few at the expense of the community. At present the machine is helping a small minority to live on the exploitation of the masses. The motive force of this minority is not humanity or love of their kind, but greed and avarice. Votes: 0

I am not likely to obtain the result flowing from the worship of God by laying myself prostrate before Satan. Votes: 0

I am part and parcel of the whole and cannot find God apart from the rest of humanity. Votes: 0

I am the only one, whom you may find it hard to get rid of, for I have always counted myself as a woman. Votes: 0

I am wedded to India because I owe my all to her. Votes: 0

I am, and have been for years, a confirmed anti-vaccinationist...I have not the least doubt in my mind that vaccination is a filthy process that is harmful in the end. Votes: 0

I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption. Votes: 0

I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of Hussein, the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers and his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle. Votes: 0

I believe all war to be wholly wrong. Votes: 0

I believe in advaita, I believe in the essential unity of man and for that matter of all that lives. Votes: 0

I believe in conversion of mankind, not its destruction. Votes: 0

I believe in God, not as a theory but as a fact more real than life itself. Votes: 0

I believe in the absolute oneness of God and therefore of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but one soul. . . . I know God is neither in heaven nor down below, but in everyone. Votes: 0

I believe in the absolute oneness of God and, therefore, also of humanity. I have always believed God to be without form. What I did hear was like a Voice from afar, and yet quite near. Votes: 0

I believe in the absolute oneness of God and, therefore, also of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but one soul. The rays of the sun are many through refraction. But they have the same source. I cannot, therefore, detach myself from the wickedest soul (nor may I be denied identity with the most virtuous). Votes: 0

I believe in the capacity of India to offer nonviolent battle to the English rulers. Votes: 0

I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a weapon of the weak. I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a weapon of the strongest. I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed. Votes: 0

I believe in the essential unity of all that lives. Therefore, I believe that if one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains, and that if one person falls, the whole world falls to that extent. Votes: 0

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world. I believe that they are all God- given and I believe that they were necessary for the people to whom these religions were revealed. And I believe that if only we could all of us read the scriptures of the different faiths from the standpoints of the followers of these faiths, we should find that they were at bottom all one and were all helpful to one another. Votes: 0

I believe in trusting. Trust begets trust. Suspicion is foetid and only stinks. He who trusts has never yet lost in the world. Votes: 0

I believe in what Max Muller said years ago, namely, that truth needed to be repeated as long as there were men who disbelieved it. Votes: 0

I believe it to be perfectly possible for an individual to adopt the way of life of the future. . . without having to wait for others to do so. Votes: 0

I believe that a party wishing equality for India does exist in Britain. But it is an insignificant minority, and while I honour and like their opinion I cannot be enthused over it, for I know that those who shape policy and dominate are otherwise inclined. For me, therefore, it is only the Secretary of State who counts. Votes: 0

I believe that cunning is not only morally wrong but also politically expedient, and have therefore always discountenanced its use even from the practical standpoint. Votes: 0

I believe that it is impossible to end hatred with hatred. Votes: 0

I believe that just as everyone inherits a particular form so does he inherit the particular characteristics and qualities of his progenitors, and to make this admission is to conserve one's energy. Votes: 0

I believe that religious education must be the sole concern of religious associations. Votes: 0

I believe that there is no prayer without fasting and there is no real fast without prayer. Votes: 0

I call God long-suffering and patient precisely because He permits evil in the world. I know that He has no evil in Him and yet if there is evil, He is the author of it and yet untouched by it. Votes: 0

I call him religious who understands the suffering of others. Votes: 0

I call myself a Sanatani Eternal Hindu, because I believe in the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Puranas, and all that goes by the name of Hindu scripture, and therefore in avataras and rebirth... Votes: 0

I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit alone when the time comes. Votes: 0

I came to the conclusion long ago . . . that all religions were true, and also that all had some error in them. Votes: 0

I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them, and while I hold by my own religion, I should hold other religions as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we were Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu; but our innermost prayer should be that a Hindu should become a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, and a Christian a better Christian. Votes: 0

I can combine the greatest love with the greatest opposition to wrong. Votes: 0

I can no more preach nonviolence to a cowardly man than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes. Votes: 0

I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality Votes: 0

I cannot be subservient anywhere. Votes: 0

I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect. Votes: 0

I cannot give active support in the war effort without denying a life-time of practice. Votes: 0

I cannot imagine anything nobler or more national than that for, say, one hour in the day we should all do the labor the poor must do, and thus identify ourselves with them and through them, with all mankind. Votes: 0

I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it . . . Votes: 0

I cannot picture to myself a time when all mankind will have one religion. Votes: 0

I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man. Votes: 0

I care so deeply about this matter that I'm willing to take on the legal penalties, to sit in this prison cell, to sacrifice my freedom, in order to show you how deeply I care. Because when you see the depth of my concern, and how civil I am in going about this, you're bound to change your mind about me, to abandon your rigid, unjust position, and to let me help you see the truth of my cause. Votes: 0

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. Votes: 0

I claim to be no more than an average man with below average capabilities. Votes: 0

I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people. Votes: 0

I claim to know my millions. All the hours of the day I am with them. They are my first care and God that is to be found in the hearts of the dumb millions. Votes: 0

I claim to represent all the cultures, for my religion, whatever it may be called, demands the fulfillment of all the cultures. Votes: 0

I condemn, for all climes and for all times, secret murders and unfair methods even for a fair cause. Votes: 0

I consider Western Christianity in its practical working a negation of Christ's Christianity. Votes: 0

I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning of learning. Votes: 0

I considered becoming a Christian... until I met one. Votes: 0

I could not be leading a religious life unless I identified myself with the whole of mankind, and that I could not do unless I took part in politics. Votes: 0

I crave to die with my hand at the spinning wheel. Votes: 0

I desire no honour if I have to conceal my religious beliefs in order to have it. Votes: 0

I do believe that ideas ripen quickly when nourished by the blood of martyrs. Votes: 0

I do believe that where there is a choice between cowardice and non-violence I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done, had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908, whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defended me, I told him that it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. Votes: 0

I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants. Votes: 0

I do not accept the orthodox teaching that Jesus was or is God incarnate in the accepted sense or that he was or is the only Son of God. Votes: 0

I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest good of the greatest number. The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all. Votes: 0

I do not believe that the spiritual law works on a field of its own. On the contrary, it expresses itself only through the ordinary activities of life. It thus affects the economic, the social and the political fields. Votes: 0

I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability which is amazing and he seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed. Votes: 0

I do not like the word tolerance, but could not think of a better one. Tolerance implies a gratuitous assumption of the inferiority of other faiths to one Votes: 0

I do not regard capital to be the enemy of labour. Votes: 0

I do not seek redemption from the consequences of my sin. I seek to be redeemed from sin itself. Until I have attained that end, I shall be content to be restless. Votes: 0

I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy. Votes: 0

I do not want India to rise on the ruin of other nations. Votes: 0

I do not want my house to be rounded by walls and my windows to be closed to other cultures. I wish to become familiar with the culture of lands as much as possible but I will not permit them to affect me or shake me from my own status. Votes: 0

I do not wish disaster to British arms. Votes: 0

I do not wish my house to be walled and my windows stuffed. I want all cultures to blow freely through my dwelling. Votes: 0

I do regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism are. Votes: 0

I do regard spinning and weaving as a necessary part of any national system of education. Votes: 0

I don't reject Christ. I love Christ. It's just that so many of you Christians are so unlike Christ. Votes: 0

I eat to live, to serve, and also, if it so happens, to enjoy, but I do not eat for the sake of enjoyment. Votes: 0

I felt that God could be realized only through service. And service for me was the service of India, because it came to me without my seeking, because I had an aptitude for it. Votes: 0

I find a solace a in the Bhagavadgita and Upanishads that I miss even in the Sermon on the Mount. Votes: 0

I find that we are all such sinners that it is better to leave the judging to God. Votes: 0

I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher Votes: 0

I have an implicit faith ... that mankind can only be saved through non-violence, which is the central teaching of the Bible, as I have understood the Bible. Votes: 0

I have been practicing, with scientific precision, nonviolence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years. Votes: 0

I have been repeating over and over again that he who cannot protect himself or his nearest and dearest or their honour by non-violently facing death may and ought to do so by violently dealing with the oppressor. He who can do neither of the two is a burden. He has no business to be the head of a family. He must either hide himself, or must rest content to live for ever in helplessness and be prepared to crawl like a worm at the bidding of a bully. Votes: 0

I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Eternal and become merely a lump of clay in the Potter's divine hands so that my service may become more certain because uninterrupted by the baser self in me. Votes: 0

I have called spinning the yajna of this age of India. Votes: 0

I have discovered that man is superior to the system he propounds. Votes: 0

I have endeavored to show that there is no real service of humanity in the profession of medicine and that it is injurious to mankind. Votes: 0

I have felt that the Gita teaches us that what cannot be followed in day-to-day practice cannot be called religion. Votes: 0

I have found by experience that man makes his plans to be upset by God, but, at the same time, where the ultimate goal is the search of truth, on matter how a man's plans are frustrated the issue is never injurious and often better than anticipated. Votes: 0

I have had the hardihood to say that Swaraj could not be granted even by God. Votes: 0

I have in my life never been guilty of saying things I did not mean - my nature is to go straight to the heart and if often I fail in doing so for the time being, I know that Truth ultimately makes itself heard and felt, as it has often done in my experience. Votes: 0

I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians. Votes: 0

I have made the world's faith in God my own and as my faith is effaceable, I regard that faith as amounting to experience. Votes: 0

I have mentally become a woman in order to steal into her heart. Votes: 0

I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts. A thoughtless word hardly ever escaped my tongue or pen. Experience has taught me that silence is part of the spiritual discipline of a votary of truth. We find so many people impatient to talk. All this talking can hardly be said to be of any benefit to the world. It is so much waste of time. My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth. Votes: 0

I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru. Votes: 0

I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence. Votes: 0

I have no weapon but nonviolence. Votes: 0

I have not conceived my mission to be that of a knight-errant wandering everywhere to deliver people from difficult situations. My humble occupation has been to show people how they can solve their own difficulties. Votes: 0

I have not hesitated to call the system of Government under which we are labouring 'satanic' and I withdraw naught out of it. Votes: 0

I have not lost the hope that the masses will refuse to bow to the Moloch of war but they will rely upon their own capacity for suffering to save their country's honour. Votes: 0

I have nothing of the communalist in me because my Hinduism is all inclusive. Votes: 0

I have pinned my faith to the spinning wheel. On it, I believe, the salvation of this country depends. Votes: 0

I have repeatedly stated that satyagraha never fails and that one perfect satyagrahi is enough to vindicate Truth. Votes: 0

I have shut my mind against nothing and I am a friend of Great Britain. I always have been. I have no axe to grind. Votes: 0

I have so much to accomplish today that I must meditate for two hours instead of one. Votes: 0

I hold it a blasphemy to say that the Creator resides in a temple from which a particular class of His devotees sharing faith in it are excluded. Votes: 0

I hold no man to be indispensable for the welfare of the country. Votes: 0

I hold that the world is sick of armed rebellions. Votes: 0

I hold that without truth and nonviolence there can be nothing but destruction of humanity. Votes: 0

I honor the place within you where, when you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us. Votes: 0

I implicitly believe in the truth of the saying that not a blade of grass moves but by His will. He will save it (my life) if He needs it for further service in this body. None can save it against His will. Votes: 0

I invite even the school of violence to give this peaceful non-co-operation a trial. Votes: 0

I isolate this non-co-operation from Sinn Feinism, for it is so conceived as to be incapable of being offered side by side with violence. Votes: 0

I know no diplomacy save that of truth. Votes: 0

I know nothing of the science of astrology and I consider it to be a science, if it is a science, of doubtful value, to be severely left alone by those who have any faith in Providence. Votes: 0

I know of no religion or sect that has done or is doing without a house of God, variously described as a temple, a mosque, a church, a synagogue or agiary. Votes: 0

I know of no system other than Hinduism under which a class has been set apart from generation to generation for the exclusive pursuit of divine knowledge and consigned to voluntary poverty. Votes: 0

I know that I have still before me a difficult path to traverse. I must reduce myself to zero. So long as a man does not of his own free will put himself last among his fellow creatures, there is no salvation for him. Ahimsa is the farthest limit of humility. Votes: 0

I know that in embarking on non-violence I shall be running what might be termed a mad risk. But the victories of truth have never been won without risks. Votes: 0

I know that man who forsakes Truth can forsake his country and his nearest and dearest ones. Votes: 0

I know that not only is Swaraj our birthright, but it is our sacred duty to win it. Votes: 0

I learned from my illiterate but wise mother that all rights to be deserved and preserved came from duty well done. Thus the very right to live accrues to us only when we do the duty of citizenship of the world. From this one fundamental statement, perhaps it is easy enough to define the duties of Man and Woman and correlate every right to some corresponding duty to be first performed. Every other right can be shown to be a usurpation hardly worth fighting for. Votes: 0

I learnt from Hussein how to achieve victory while being oppressed. Votes: 0

I learnt the lesson on nonviolence from my wife, when I tried to bend her to my will. Her determined resistance to my will on the one hand, and her quiet submission to the suffering my stupidity involved on the other, ultimately made me ashamed of myself and cured me of my stupidity in thinking that I was born to rule over her. Votes: 0

I like their Christ, but I don't like their Christians. Votes: 0

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.(...) If Christians would really live according to the teachings of Christ, as found in the Bible, all of India would be Christian today. Votes: 0

I literally believe in the possibility of a Sudhanva smiling away whilst he was being drowned in boiling oil. Votes: 0

I love Christianity, Islam and many other faiths - through Hinduism. Votes: 0

I may be a despicable person, but when Truth speaks through me I am invincible. Votes: 0

I may fight the British ruler, but I do not hate the English or their language. In fact, I appreciate their literary treasures. Votes: 0

I may not unnerve myself while I can struggle against evil. Votes: 0

I must declare that it is better for India do discard violence altogether even for defending her borders. Votes: 0

I must dissent emphatically from any proposal to spend any money on preparing a statue of me, more especially at a time when people do not have enough food and clothing. Votes: 0

I must fight unto the death the unholy attempt to impose British methods and British institutions on India. Votes: 0

I must not refrain from saying that India can gain more by waiving the right of punishment. Votes: 0

I must not serve a distant neighbour at the expense of the nearest. Votes: 0

I must rebel against the idea that millions of Indians, who were Hindus, the other day, changed their nationality on adopting Islam as their religion. Votes: 0

I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no dis-advantage whatever. In fact I can see that, on the contrary, it has been all to my advantage. Votes: 0

I must try to live in society and yet remain untouched by its pitfalls. Votes: 0

I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. Votes: 0

I once Experimented with marijuna, next thing I know I'm waking up with blood on my hands.......and not my own blood. Votes: 0

I own no enemy on earth. That is my creed. Votes: 0

I own no property and yet I feel that I am perhaps the richest man in the world. Votes: 0

I realized the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. The lesson was so indelibly burnt into me that a large part of my time during the twenty years of my practice as a lawyer was occupied in bringing about private compromises of hundreds of cases. I lost nothing thereby -- not even money, certainly not my soul. Votes: 0

I recall having read, at the brothers' instance, Madame Blavatsky's Key to Theosophy. This book stimulated in me the desire to read books on Hinduism, and disabused me of the notion fostered by the missionaries that Hinduism was rife with superstition. Votes: 0

I recognise no God except the God that is to be found in the hearts of the dumb millions. Votes: 0

I refuse to believe that the tendency of human nature is always downward. Votes: 0

I refuse to buy from anybody anything however nice or beautiful if it interferes with my growth or injures those whom Nature has made my first care. Votes: 0

I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace. Votes: 0

I regard the constituent assembly as the substitute ofsatyagraha. It is constructive satyagraha. Votes: 0

I regard untouchability as such a grave sin as to warrant divine chastisement. Votes: 0

I retain the opinion that council entry is inconsistent with non-co-operation as I conceive it. Votes: 0

I saw that bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education. Votes: 0

I see neither bravery nor sacrifice in destroying life or property, for offense or defense. Votes: 0

I shall despair when I despair of myself, of God and humanity. Votes: 0

I shall die, but I will not kill. Votes: 0

I shall never know God if I do not wrestle with and against evil, even at the cost of life itself. Votes: 0

I shall, of course, die with nonviolence on my lips. Votes: 0

I should love to satisfy all, if I possibly can; but in trying to satisfy all, I may be able to satisfy none. I have, therefore, arrived at the conclusion that the best course is to satisfy one's own conscience and leave the world to form its own judgment, favorable or otherwise. Votes: 0

I should wish to die if a man who is impure should parade his purity in front of me. Votes: 0

I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments. Votes: 0

I still believe that man, not having been given the power of creation, does not posses the right of destroying the meanest creature that lives. The perogative of destruction belongs solely to the Creator of all that lives. Votes: 0

I still somehow or other fancy that "my philosophy" represents the true meaning of the teaching of the Gita. Votes: 0

I submit that scientists have not yet explored the hidden possibilities of the innumerable seeds, leaves and fruits for giving the fullest possible nutrition to mankind. Votes: 0

I suffer snakes to be killed in the ashram when it is impossible to catch them and put them out of harm's way. Votes: 0

I suggest that we are thieves in a way. If I take anything that I do not need for my own immediate use, and keep it, I thieve it from somebody else. ... Nature produces enough for our wants from day to day, and if only every-body took enough for himself and nothing more, there would be no pauperism in this world, there would be no man dying of starvation in this world. But so long as we have got this inequality, so long we are thieving. Votes: 0

I swear by swadeshi as it affords occasion for ample exercise of all our faculties and it tests every one of the millions of men and women, young and old. Votes: 0

I think it is wrong to expect certainties in this world, where all else but God that is Truth is an uncertainty. All that appears and happens about and around us is uncertain, transient. But there is a Supreme Being hidden therein as a Certainty, and one would be blessed if one could catch a glimpse of that Certainty and hitch one's waggon to it. The quest for that Truth is the summum bonum of life. Votes: 0

I think it would be a good idea. Votes: 0

I think it would be an excellent idea. Votes: 0

I travel third-class because there is no fouth-class. Votes: 0

I trust men only because I trust God. Votes: 0

I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong. Votes: 0

I understood . . . that those who desired salvation should act like the trustee who, though having control over great possessions, regards not an iota of them as his own. Votes: 0

I want co-operation between nations for the salvaging of civilization, but co-operation presupposes free nations worthy of co-operation. Votes: 0

I want for India complete independence in the full English sense of that English term. Votes: 0

I want India to come into her own and that state cannot be better defined by any single word than Swaraj. Votes: 0

I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such things as crawl upon earth. Votes: 0

I was a co-operator too in the sense that I non-co-operated for co-operation, and even then I said that if I could carry the country forward by co-operation I should co-operate. Votes: 0

I was a coward. I used to be haunted by the fear of thieves, ghosts and serpents. I did not dare to stir out of doors at night. Darkness was a terror to me. It was almost impossible for me to sleep in the dark, as I would imagine ghosts coming from one direction, thieves from another and serpents from a third. I could not therefore bear to sleep without a light in the room. Votes: 0

I will not be a traitor of God to please the whole world. Votes: 0

I will not have the power of nonviolence to be underestimated in order to cover my limitations or weaknesses. Votes: 0

I will say that if there is anything like God Or Truth on earth, Hindu-Muslim unity is also possible. Votes: 0

I will suffer the agony if that is to be my lot. Votes: 0