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All The Religions Of The World, While They May Differ In Other Respects, Unitedly Proclaim That Nothing Lives In This World But Truth.

-Mahatma Gandhi

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All The Religions Of The World, While They May Differ In Other Respects, Unitedly Proclaim That Nothing Lives In This World But Truth.

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Forgive And Forget, But Never Forget To Forgive. You May Find A Happier Heart Is The Key To A Happier Life.

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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.

Nothing Has Saddened Me So Much In Life As The Hardness Of Heart Of Educated People.

To Me The Mahabharata Is A Profoundly Religious Book, Largely Allegorical, In A Way Meant To Be A Historical Record.

May The Work Of Your Hands Be A Sign Of Gratitude And Reverence To The Human Condition.

That Which Looks For Mercy From An Opponent Is Not Non-violence.

You Will Eat Not To Satisfy Your Palate But Your Hunger. A Self-indulgent Man Lives To Eat; A Self-restrained Man Eats To Live.

We Are All Very Imperfect And Weak Things, And If We Are To Destroy All Whose Ways We Do Not Like, There Will Be Not A Man Left Alive.

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.

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.

The Method Of Satyagraha Requires That The Satyagrahi Should Never Lose Hope, So Long As There Is The Slightest Ground Left For It.

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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.

The Study Of Indian Economics Is The Study Of The Spinning Wheel.

There Are People In The World So Hungry, That God Cannot Appear To Them Except In The Form Of Bread.

True Ahimsa Lay In Running Into The Mouth Of Himsa.

The Real Ornament Of Woman Is Her Character, Her Purity.

Nonviolence Is Not A Cloistered Virtue, Confined Only To The Rishi And The Cave-dweller.

If Your Heart Acquires Strength, You Will Be Able To Remove Blemishes From Others Without Thinking Evil Of Them.

If Every Component Part Of The Nation Claims The Right Of Self-determination For Itself, There Is No One Nation And There Is No Independence.

The Attainment Of Freedom, Whether For A Person, A Nation Or A World, Must Be In Exact Proportion To The Attainment Of Nonviolence For Each

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.

It Is The Acid Test Of Nonviolence That In A Nonviolent Conflict There Is No Rancor Left Behind, And In The End The Enemies Are Converted Into Friends.

When You Practice A Life Of Non-violence You No Longer Need Seek The Truth, The Truth Finds You.

Hindu Dharma Is Like A Boundless Ocean Teeming With Priceless Gems. The Deeper You Dive The More Treasures You Find.

Your Readiness To Suffer Will Light The Torch Of Freedom Which Will Never Be Put Out.

Satyagraha Is A Process Of Educating Public Opinion, Such That It Covers All The Elements Of The Society And In The End Makes Itself Irresistible.

I Must Not Serve A Distant Neighbour At The Expense Of The Nearest.

If Anybody Said That I Should Die If I Did Not Take Beef-tea Or Mutton, Even Under Medical Advice, I Would Prefer Death.

Nonviolent Attainment Of Self-government Presupposes A Non-violent Control Over The Violent Elements In The Country.

We Must Always Seek To Ally Ourselves With That Part Of The Enemy That Knows What Is Right.

A True And Nonviolent Combination Of Labour Would Act Like A Magnet Attracting To It All The Needed Capital.

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.

I Don't Reject Christ. I Love Christ. It's Just That So Many Of You Christians Are So Unlike Christ.

There Are As Many Different Religions As There Are Individuals.

Different Religions

Organization Of Khaddar Is Infinitely Better Than Co-operative Societies Or Any Other Form Of Village Organization.

Non-cooperation Is A Measure Of Discipline And Sacrifice, And It Demands Respect For The Opposite Views.

Sorrow And Suffering Make For Character If They Are Voluntarily Borne, But Not If They Are Imposed.

There Is Not A Moment When I Do Not Feel The Presence Of A Witness Whose Eye Misses Nothing And With Whom I Strive To Keep In Tune.

Selfless Action Is A Source Of Strength.

If We Have The Khadi Spirit In Us, Then We Should Surround Ourselves With Simplicity In Every Walk Of Life.

Without Proper, Careful Organisation Of The Spinning Wheel And Khaddar, There Is Absolutely No Civil Disobedience.

I Believe All War To Be Wholly Wrong.

A Satyagrahi Is Nothing If Not Instinctively Law-abiding.

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?

The Spinning Wheel Is A Symbol Of Nonviolence For Me.

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.

If I Did Not Have A Sense Of Humor, I Would Have Long Ago Killed Myself.

If She [woman] Is Weak In Striking, She Is Strong In Suffering.

A Weak Man Is Just By Accident. A Strong But Non-violent Man Is Unjust By Accident.

I Can Combine The Greatest Love With The Greatest Opposition To Wrong.

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.

I Eat To Live, To Serve, And Also, If It So Happens, To Enjoy, But I Do Not Eat For The Sake Of Enjoyment.

It Is Indeed A Million Times Better To Appear Untrue Before The World Than To Be Untrue To Ourselves.

A Policy Is A Temporary Creed Liable To Be Changed, But While It Holds Good It Has Got To Be Pursued With Apostolic Zeal.

God's Time Never Stops.

Nonviolence Or Soul Force Does Not Need Physical Aids For Its Propagation Of Effect.

Armed Conspiracies Against Something Satanic Is Like Matching Satans Against Satan.

Life Becomes Livable Only To The Extent That Death Is Treated As A Friend, Never As An Enemy.

There Is Already Enough Superstition In Our Country. No Effort Should Be Spared To Resist Further Addition In The Shape Of Gandhi Worship.

God's Grace And Revelation Are The Monopoly Of No Race Or Nation.

God Rules Even Where Satan Seems To Hold Sway, Because The Latter Exists Only On God's Sufferance.

Nothing Can So Quickly Put The Masses On Their Legs As The Spinning Wheel And All It Means.

The Bible Is As Much A Book Of Religion With Me As The Gita And The Koran.

A Slave-holder Cannot Hold A Slave Without Putting Himself Or His Deputy In The Cage For Holding The Slave.

The Greatness Of Humanity Is Not In Being Human, But In Being Humane.

I Am A Christian And A Hindu And A Muslim And A Jew.

Whenever You Have Truth It Must Be Given With Love, Or The Message And The Messenger Will Be Rejected.

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