Non-violence is the article of faith. Votes: 10
Peace is its own reward. Votes: 8
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
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion. Votes: 0
One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's. Votes: 0
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people. 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
Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom. Votes: 0
Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education. Votes: 0
Where love is, there God is also. Votes: 0
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. Votes: 0
I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force. 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
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
The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die. Votes: 0
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. Votes: 0
Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery. Votes: 0
Under ideal conditions, the barrister and the bhangi (sweeper) should both get the same payment. Votes: 0
Be truthful, gentle, and fearless. Votes: 0
Where there is love there is life. 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
Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive. Votes: 0
The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience. Votes: 0
To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act. Votes: 0
Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit. 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
Close the day with prayer so that you may have a peaceful night free from dreams and nightmares. Votes: 0
Openness of mind strengthens the truth in us and removes the dross from it, if there is any. Votes: 0
Economic equality of my conception does not mean that every one will literally have the same amount. Votes: 0
I would risk violence a thousand times rather than risk the emasculation of the whole race. Votes: 0
God has no religion. Votes: 0
Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men. Votes: 0
Imitation is the sincerest flattery. Votes: 0
Nonviolence requires great patience. Votes: 0
Nonviolence has come among men and it will live. It is the harbinger of the peace of the world. Votes: 0
Harshness is conquered by gentleness, hatred by love, lethargy by zeal and darkness by light. Votes: 0
Suffering cheerfully endured, ceases to be suffering and is transmuted into an ineffable joy. Votes: 0
Learn as if you will live forever. Votes: 0
Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison. 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
Evil is, good or truth misplaced. Votes: 0
My greatest weapon is mute prayer. Votes: 0
My national service is part of my training for freeing my soul from the bondage of the flesh. Votes: 0
The power of nonviolent resistance can only come from honest working of the constructive programme. Votes: 0
Prayer is the only means of bringing about orderliness and peace and repose in our daily acts. Votes: 0
The sky may be overcast today with clouds, but a fervent prayer to God is enough to dispel them. Votes: 0
The way of peace is the way of truth. Truthfulness is even more important than peacefulness. Votes: 0
Today I know that physical training should have as much place in the curriculum as mental training. Votes: 0
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer. Votes: 0
A prayerful study and experience are essential for a correct interpretation of the scriptures. Votes: 0
Action expresses priorities. Votes: 0
Crime and vice generally require darkness for prowling. They disappear when light plays upon them. Votes: 0
Prayer is no mere exercise of words or of the ears, it is no mere repetition of empty formula. Votes: 0
God will rule the lives of all those who will surrender themselves without reservation to Him. Votes: 0
You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result Votes: 0
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. Votes: 0
Hate the sin, love the sinner. Votes: 0
There's no God higher than truth. Votes: 0
The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer. Votes: 0
Swaraj would be real Swaraj only when there would be no occasion for safeguarding any rights. Votes: 0
Self-defense...is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation. Votes: 0
My fast is, among other things, meant to qualify me for achieving that equal and selfless love. Votes: 0
Be the change you want to see. Votes: 0
Love never claims, it ever gives. Votes: 0
Mortification of the flesh has been held all the world over as a condition of spiritual progress. 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
There is no god higher than truth. Votes: 0
The bomb-throwers have discredited the cause of freedom, in whose name they threw the bombs. Votes: 0
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. Votes: 0
As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist Votes: 0
Hinduism dies if untouchability lives, and untouchability has to die if Hinduism is to live. Votes: 0
Hindu-Muslim unity, khaddar and removal of untouchability are to me the foundation of Swaraj. Votes: 0
Ravana was a rakshasa but this rakshasi of untouchability is even more terrible than Ravana. Votes: 0
Meditation is waiting on God. Votes: 0
I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality. Votes: 0
[He] alone is truly nonviolent who remains nonviolent even though he has the ability to strike. 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 coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women Votes: 0
A devotee of Rama may be said to be the same as the steadfast one (sthitaprajnya) of the Gita. Votes: 0
A fear-stricken person can never know God, and one who knows God will never fear a mortal man. Votes: 0
A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed. Votes: 0
A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society. Votes: 0
A religion cannot be sustained by the number of its lip-followers denying in their lives its tenets. 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 seeker after truth, a follower of the law of Love, cannot hold anything against tomorrow. Votes: 0
Adversity is the mother of progress. Votes: 0
Ahimsa is the strongest force known. Votes: 0
All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful. Votes: 0
An India free from exploitation from within and without must prosper with astonishing rapidity. Votes: 0
Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa. Votes: 0
Anything that exists is possible. Votes: 0
Appreciation of nonviolence means patient research and still more patient and difficult practice. Votes: 0
Art to be art must soothe. 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
Be the change that you want to see Votes: 0
Be the change you seek. Votes: 0
Begin your day with prayer, and make it so soulful that it may remain with you until the evening. Votes: 0
Birth-control through self-restraint is the most desirable, sensible and totally harmless method. 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
Buddhism in one long prayer. Votes: 0
By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit. Votes: 0
Carrying arms for the removal of the Arms Act can never fall under any scheme of nonviolence. Votes: 0
Charkha is an instrument of service. Votes: 0
Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence. Votes: 0
Concentrate on your task. Votes: 0
Continue to grow and evolve. Votes: 0
Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence. Votes: 0
Cowards can never be moral. Votes: 0
Decency and tolerance, to be of any value, must be capable of withstanding the severest strain. Votes: 0
Destruction of the churches and the like is not the way to Swaraj as defined by the Congress. Votes: 0
Diversity there certainly is in the world, but it means neither inequality nor untouchability. Votes: 0
Earth and heaven are in us 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
Every expression of truth has in it the seeds of propagation, even as the sun cannot hide its light. Votes: 0
Every labourer is worthy of his hire. No country can produce thousands of unpaid whole-time workers. Votes: 0
Every person in a well-ordered state is fully conscious of both his responsibilities and his rights. Votes: 0
Everyone holds a piece of the truth. Votes: 0
External fears cease of their own accord when once we have conquered these traitors within the camp. Votes: 0
Faith alone is the sun of life. 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 the function of the heart. Votes: 0
Fear gone, there can be no hatred. Votes: 0
Few men are wantonly wicked. Votes: 0
Find purpose. The means will follow. Votes: 0
For a firm believer in swadeshi, there need be no Pharisaical self-satisfaction in wearing khadi. Votes: 0
Forgiveness is choosing to love. Votes: 0
Full effort is full victory. Votes: 0
God alone is immortal, imperishable. Votes: 0
God alone knows absolute Truth. Votes: 0
God chooses as His instrument the humblest and weakest of His creatures to fulfill Himself. Votes: 0
God created man to work for his food and said that those who ate without work were thieves. Votes: 0
God has been described by all the scriptures of the world as protector and saviour of the sinner. 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 so ordered this world that no one can keep his goodness or badness exclusively to himself. 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 in strength but in truth. 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 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 Truth, Truth is God. Votes: 0
God of Truth and Justice can never create distinctions of high and low among His own children. Votes: 0
God rules even where Satan seems to hold sway, because the latter exists only on God's sufferance. Votes: 0
God's time never stops. Votes: 0
Hatred can be overcome only by love. Votes: 0
He who atones for sins never calculates; he pours out the whole essence of his contrite heart. Votes: 0
He who spins before the poor, inviting them to do likewise, serves God as no one else does. 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
Hinduism is not a codified religion. Votes: 0
Hindus, if they want unity among different races, must have the courage to trust the minorities. Votes: 0
History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force. Votes: 0
However virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India. Votes: 0
I am a proud staunch Sanatani Hindu. 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 that there is no prayer without fasting and there is no real fast without prayer. Votes: 0
I cannot be subservient anywhere. Votes: 0
I consider Western Christianity in its practical working a negation of Christ's Christianity. 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 find a solace a in the Bhagavadgita and Upanishads that I miss even in the Sermon on the Mount. 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 hold that without truth and nonviolence there can be nothing but destruction of humanity. Votes: 0
I know that man who forsakes Truth can forsake his country and his nearest and dearest ones. Votes: 0
I must not refrain from saying that India can gain more by waiving the right of punishment. Votes: 0
I regard the constituent assembly as the substitute ofsatyagraha. It is constructive satyagraha. Votes: 0
I retain the opinion that council entry is inconsistent with non-co-operation as I conceive it. Votes: 0
I see neither bravery nor sacrifice in destroying life or property, for offense or defense. 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 think it would be a good idea. Votes: 0
I would ask you to come in Khadi, for Khadi links you with the fallen and the down-trodden. Votes: 0
I would far rather that India perished than that she won Her freedom at the sacrifice of truth. Votes: 0
I would like to say that that even the teachings of the Koran cannot be exempted from criticism. Votes: 0
I would rather have India without education, if that is the price to be paid for making it dry. Votes: 0
If blood be shed, let it be our own. Let us cultivate the calm courage to die without killing. Votes: 0
If Britain were honest, which I dispute, she would then embrace all nations on terms of equality. Votes: 0
If Gandhism means simply mechanically turning the spinning wheel, it deserves to be destroyed. Votes: 0
If God is vast and boundless as the ocean, how can a tiny drop like man imagine what He is? Votes: 0
If it is man's privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter - dependent. Votes: 0
If love or non-violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces. Votes: 0
If we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place. Votes: 0
If you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold. Votes: 0
If you don't ask, you don't get it Votes: 0
If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further. Votes: 0
In the case of the Indian villager, an age-old culture is hidden under entrustment of crudeness. Votes: 0
Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law. Votes: 0
Is it not possible for us all to realize that the masses will never mount to freedom through murder? Votes: 0
It dawned upon me that fasting could be made as powerful a weapon of indulgence as of restraint Votes: 0
It is a sad thing that our schoolboys look upon manual labour with disfavour, if not contempt. Votes: 0
It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine. Votes: 0
It is my unshakable belief that India's destiny is to deliver the message of nonviolence to mankind. Votes: 0
It Is possible to live in peace. Votes: 0
It is wonderful, if we chose the right diet, what an extraordinarily small quantity would suffice. Votes: 0
It only confirms me in my belief that there is no Swaraj without a settlement with the Mussalmans. Votes: 0
Jealousy does not wait for reasons. Votes: 0
Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself Votes: 0
Khadi service, village service and Harijan service are one in reality, though three in name. Votes: 0
Knowledge and devotion, to be true, have to stand the test of renunciation of the fruits of action. Votes: 0
Knowledge of the tallest scientist or the greatest spiritualist is like a particle of dust. Votes: 0
Labour is priceless, not gold. Votes: 0
Languages proclaim that woman is half of man, and by parity of reasoning, man is half of woman. Votes: 0
Let me say that God will send me the plan when He gives the word as He has done before now. Votes: 0
Let your life be your message. Votes: 0
Life becomes livable only to the extent that death is treated as a friend, never as an enemy. Votes: 0
Life is greater than all art. Votes: 0
Life is one indivisible whole. Votes: 0
Literacy in itself is no education. Votes: 0
Love is the law of life. Votes: 0
Make injustice visible. Votes: 0
Man believes and lives. Votes: 0
Man does not live by destruction. Votes: 0
Man is the center of a circle without a circumference, except the one he creates for himself. Votes: 0
Man is the maker of his own destiny, and I therefore ask you to become makers of your own destiny. Votes: 0
Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane. Votes: 0
Means are ends in the making Votes: 0
Means are not to be distinguished from ends. If violent means are used, there will be bad results. Votes: 0
Men like me feel that untouchability is no integral part of Hinduism, it is an excrescence. Votes: 0
Men to be men must be able to trust their womenfolk, even as the latter are compelled to trust them. Votes: 0
Mine is not a religion of the prison-house. It has room for the least among God's creation. Votes: 0
More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it. Votes: 0
My ahimsa is my own. I am not able to accept in its entirety the doctrine of non-killing of animals. Votes: 0
My creed of nonviolence does not favour the punishment of thieves and dacoits and even murderers. Votes: 0
My dharma teaches me to give my life for the sake of others without even attempting to kill. Votes: 0
My Hinduism must be a very poor thing if it cannot flourish even under the most adverse influence. Votes: 0
My implicit faith in nonviolence does mean yielding to minorities when they are really weak. Votes: 0
My nationalism is as broad as my swadeshi, I want India's rise so that the whole world may benefit. Votes: 0
My nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving the dear ones unprotected. Votes: 0
My nonviolence is made of stern stuff. It is firmer than the firmest metal known to scientists. Votes: 0
National education to be truly national must reflect the national condition for the time being. Votes: 0
Never make a promise in haste. Votes: 0
Newspapers today have almost replaced the Bible, the Koran, the Gita and other religious scriptures. Votes: 0
No Indian who aspires to follow the way of true religion can afford to remain aloof from politics. Votes: 0
No matter how explicit the pledge, people will turn and twist the text to suit their own purpose Votes: 0
Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment. Votes: 0
Not those who shout 'satyagraha', 'satyagraha' will do satyagraha, but those who will work for it. Votes: 0
Nothing can be more hurtful to an honourable man than that he should be accused of bad faith. Votes: 0
Nothing can so quickly put the masses on their legs as the spinning wheel and all it means. Votes: 0
Nothing in the Shastra, which is manifestly contrary to universal truths and morals, can stand. Votes: 0
Nothing is impossible for pure love. Votes: 0
Nothing is of a permanent nature. Votes: 0
Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization. Votes: 0
Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence. Votes: 0
Patience means self-suffering. Votes: 0
Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for. Votes: 0
Political power means the capacity to regulate national life through national representatives. Votes: 0
Poverty is the greatest violence. Votes: 0
Prayer can come in only when fasting has done its work. It can make fasting easy and bearable. Votes: 0
President means chief servant Votes: 0
Priorities lie in your actions Votes: 0
Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient. Votes: 0
Purification is never for the selfishly idle, it accrues only to the selflessly industrious. Votes: 0
Real beauty is my aim. Votes: 0
Reasoned and willing obedience to the laws of the State is the first lesson in non-co-operation. Votes: 0
Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation. Votes: 0
Renunciation is the central sun, round which devotion, knowledge and the rest revolve like planets. Votes: 0
Responsibility will mellow and sober the youth and prepare them, for the burden they must discharge. Votes: 0
Restraint never ruins one's health. Votes: 0
Robust faith in oneself and brave trust of the opponent, so called or real, is the best safeguard. Votes: 0
Since the propagation of nonviolence is the mission of my life, I must pursue it in all weathers. Votes: 0
Sorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily borne, but not if they are imposed. Votes: 0
Soul-force comes only through God's grace and never descends upon a man who is a slave to lust. Votes: 0
Strength of numbers is the delight of the timid. The Valiant in spirit glory in fighting alone. Votes: 0
Surely, conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows His creatures' hearts. Votes: 0
Take care of this moment. Votes: 0
That which you look upon as your own you may keep only so long as the world allows you to own it. Votes: 0
The best politics is right action. Votes: 0
The Bhagavadgita is a gospel of non-co-operation between the forces of darkness and those of light. Votes: 0
The cause is everything. Those even who are dearest to us must be shunted for the sake of the cause. Votes: 0
The cause of the spinning wheel is too great and too good to have to rest on mere hero-worship. Votes: 0
The Charkha is the symbol of nonviolence on which all life, if it is to be real life, must be based. Votes: 0
The end is inherent in the means. Votes: 0
The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing. Votes: 0
The external is in no way the essence of religion, but the external often proclaims the internal. Votes: 0
The finite human being shall never know in its fullness Truth and Love which is itself infinite. Votes: 0
The fragrance of religious and spiritual life is much finer and subtler than that of the rose. Votes: 0
The function of Nayee-Talim is not to teach an occupation, but through it to develop the whole man. Votes: 0
The golden rule to apply in all such cases is resolutely to refuse to have what millions cannot. Votes: 0
The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one. Votes: 0
The greatest menace to the world today is the growing, exploiting, irresponsible imperialism. Votes: 0
The idol in the temple is not God. But since God resides in every atom, He resides in that idol too. Votes: 0
The Khaddar of my conception is that handspun cloth entirely takes the place of mill cloth in India. Votes: 0
The Koran says that there can be no heaven for one who sheds the blood of an innocent neighbour. Votes: 0
The Law and the Lawgiver are one. Votes: 0
The man has not the power to create life. Therefore, he has not either, the right to destroy it. Votes: 0
The message of Jesus has proved ineffective because the environment was unready to receive it. Votes: 0
The message of khaddar can penetrate to the remotest villages if we only will that it shall be so. Votes: 0
The meticulous care for the rights of the least among us is the sin qua non of nonviolence. Votes: 0
The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies. Votes: 0
The path is the goal. Votes: 0
The real love is to love them that hate you, to love your neighbor even though you distrust him. Votes: 0
The restoration of free speech, free association and free press is almost the whole Swaraj. Votes: 0