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I Worship God As Truth Only. I Have Not Yet Found Him, But I Am Seeking After Him.

-Mahatma Gandhi

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I Worship God As Truth Only. I Have Not Yet Found Him, But I Am Seeking After Him.

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One Has To Speak Out And Stand Up For One's Convictions. Inaction At A Time Of Conflagration Is Inexcusable.

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One Who Uses Coercion Is Guilty Of Deliberate Violence. Coercion Is Inhuman.

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Nonviolence Is The First Article Of My Faith. It Is Also The Last Article Of My Creed.

Jail-going Is Only The Beginning, Not The End Of Satyagraha. The Acme Of Satyagraha For Us Would Be To Lay Down Our Lives For The Defence Of India's Just Cause.

That Which Impels Man To Do The Right Thing Is God.

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That Religion And That Nation Will Be Blotted Out Of The Face Of The Earth Which Pins Its Faith On Injustice, Untruth Or Violence.

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It Is Pleasant That There Will Be No Religions In Heaven.

What Is Gained By Violence Must Be Lost Before Superior Violence.

Cowardice Is Not A Sign Of Belief In God.

Increase Of Material Comforts, It May Be Generally Laid Down, Does Not In Any Way Whatsoever Conduce To Moral Growth.

My Greatest Weapon Is Mute Prayer.

Total Nonviolent Non-cooperation Has No Place In Popular Raj, Whatever Its Level May Be.

Final Satyagraha Is Inconceivable Without An Honorable Peace Between The Several Communities Composing The Indian Nation.

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Do You Think I Am Superstitious? I Am A Super-atheist.

You Can Chain Me, You Can Torture Me, You Can Even Destroy This Body, But You Will Never Imprison My Mind.

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.

Restore The Spinning Wheel To Its Place And You Will Solve The Problem Of Poverty.

To Gain India's Freedom, The Capacity For Suffering Must Go Hand In Hand With The Capacity For Ceaseless Labour.

In Any Case, The Fear Of Subservience Is Quite Imaginary.

Satyagraha Has Been Designed As An Effective Substitute For Violence.

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

The Cause Of The Spinning Wheel Is Too Great And Too Good To Have To Rest On Mere Hero-worship.

All Education In A Country Has Got To Be Demonstrably In Promotion Of The Progress Of The Country In Which It Is Given.

The Consumption Of Vegetables Involves Himsa, But I Cannot Give Them Up.

All Religions Teach That Two Opposite Forces Act Upon Us And The Human Endeavour Consists In A Series Of Eternal Rejections And Acceptances.

Satyagraha As Conceived By Me Is A Science In The Making.

It Is Much More Difficult To Live For Nonviolence Than To Die For It.

You Will Find That God Is Always By The Side Of The Fearless.

The Time Is Fast Coming When Politicians Will Cease To Fear The Religion Of Humanity And Humanitarians Will Find Entrance Into Political Life Indispensable For Full Service.

My Doctrine Means That I Must Identify Myself With Life, With Everything That Lives, That I Must Share The Majesty Of Life In The Presence Of God. The Sum-total Of This Life Is God. .. Man Is Not At Peace With Himself Until He Has Become Like Unto God. The Endeavor To Reach This State Is The Supreme, The Only Ambition Worth Having. And This Is Self-realisation. This Self-realisation Is The Subject Of The Gita, As It Is Of All Scriptures... To Be A Real Devotee Is To Realise Oneself. Self-realisation Is Not Something Apart.

Jesus, To Me, Is A Great World Teacher Among Others.

India Is Essentially A Karmabhumi (land Of Duty) In Contradistinction To Bhogabhumi (land Of Enjoyment).

So Far As I Can See, The Atomic Bomb Has Deadened The Finest Feeling That Has Sustained For Ages. There Used To Be So-called Laws Of War, Which Made It Tolerable. Now We Know The Truth. War Knows No Law Except That Of Might. The Atomic Bomb Brought An Empty Victory But It Resulted For The Time Being In Destroying The Soul Of Japan. What Has Happened To The Soul Of The Destroying Nation Is Yet Too Early To See.

All Faiths Constitute A Revelation Of Truth, But All Are Imperfect And Liable To Error.

I Considered Becoming A Christian... Until I Met One.

God Demands Nothing Less Than Self - Surrender As The Price For The Only Real Freedom That Is Worth Having.

Buddha Never Rejected Hinduism, But He Broadened Its Base. He Gave It A New Life And A New Interpretation.

If You Want To Change The World, Start With Yourself.

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The Principle Of Majority Does Not Work When Differences On Fundamentals Are Involved.

Culture Of The Mind Must Be Subservient To The Heart.

Man Becomes Great Exactly In The Degree In Which He Works For The Welfare Of His Fellow-men.

There Is No Reason To Believe That There Is One Law For Families And Another For Nations.

When Two Nations Are Fighting, The Duty Of A Votary Of Ahimsa Is To Stop The War.

An Unjust Law Is Itself A Species Of Violence. Arrest For Its Breach Is More So.

The Process Of Learning Should Be As Far As Possible A Pleasurable One And Not Laborious

To Prevent The Workers From Going To Their Work By Standing In Front Of Them Is Pure Violence And Must Be Given Up.

If God Gives Me The Privilege Of Dying For The Hinduism Of My Conception, I Shall Have Sufficiently Died For The Unity Of All And Even For Swaraj.

There Is No Greater Spellbinder Of Peace Than The Name Of God.

Ravana Was A Rakshasa But This Rakshasi Of Untouchability Is Even More Terrible Than Ravana.

Though We May Know Him By A Thousand Names, He Is One And The Same To Us All.

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.

The Nation's Non-co-operation Is An Invitation To The Government To Co-operate With It On Its Own Terms, As Is Every Nation's Right And Every Good Government's Duty.

What Is Really Needed To Make Democracy Function Is Not Knowledge Of Facts, But Right Education.

God Does Not Punish Directly. His Ways Are Inscrutable.

Retreat Itself Is Often A Plan Of Resistance And May Be A Precursor Of Great Bravery And Sacrifice. Every Retreat Is Not Cowardice Which Implies Fear To Die.

You Will Not Pit One Word Of God Against Another Word Of God.

The World Is Changing Every Moment, And Is Therefore Unreal. It Has Non Permanent Existence.

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.

The Cottage Industry Of India Had To Perish In Order That Lancashire Might Flourish.

Complete Civil Disobedience Is A State Of Peaceful Rebellion, A Refusal To Obey Every Single State-made Law.

God Created Man To Work For His Food And Said That Those Who Ate Without Work Were Thieves.

Patience Means Self-suffering.

The Simplest Acts Of Kindness Are By Far More Powerful Then A Thousand Heads Bowing In Prayer.

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

God Has Enabled Me To Affect The Life Of The Country Since 1920 Without The Necessity Of Office.

Work For Swaraj Fails To Appeal To Us Because We Have No Music In Us.

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.

Khadi Is The Sun Of The Village Solar System.

Nothing In The Shastras, Which Is Capable Of Being Reasoned, Can Stand If It Is In Conflict With Reason.

Satyagraha Is Itself An Unmistakable Mute Prayer Of An Agonized Soul.

I Do Not Regard Killing Or Assassination Or Terrorism As Good In Any Circumstances Whatsoever.

The Seeker After Truth Should Be Humbler Than The Dust.

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.

The Satyagrahi General Has To Obey His Inner Voice, For Over And Above The Situation Outside He Examines Himself Constantly And Listens To The Dictates Of The Inner Self.

No Nation Keeps Another In Subjection Without Herself Turning Into A Subject Nation.

Man Has The Supreme Knack Of Deceiving Himself; The Englishman Is Supremest Among Men.

My Ahimsa Is My Own. I Am Not Able To Accept In Its Entirety The Doctrine Of Non-killing Of Animals.

Mine Is Not A Religion Of The Prison-house. It Has Room For The Least Among God's Creation.

Hinduism Would Not Have Been Much Of A Religion If Rama Had Not Steeled His Heart Against Every Temptation.

Peace Is The Most Powerful Weapon Of Mankind.

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.

God Will Rule The Lives Of All Those Who Will Surrender Themselves Without Reservation To Him.

Between The Two, The Nationalist And The Imperialist, There Is No Meeting Ground.

What Kind Of Victory Is It When Someone Is Left Defeated? 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 And Democracy. What Is A War Criminal? Was Not War Itself A Crime Against God And Humanity, And, Therefore, Were Not All Those Who Sanctioned, Engineered And Conducted Wars, War Criminals? The Weak Can Never Forgive. Forgiveness Is The Attribute Of The Strong. Non-cooperation With Evil Is A Sacred Duty.

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.

A Religion That Takes No Account Of Practical Affairs And Does Not Help To Solve Them Is No Religion.

The Muslim Is As Much An Indian As I Am And Of The Same Blood.

Widowhood Imposed By Religion Or Custom Is An Unbearable Yoke And Defiles The Home By Secret Vice And Degrades Religion.

God Has No Religion.

The Golden Way Is To Be Friends With The World And To Regard The Whole Human Family As One.

The External Is In No Way The Essence Of Religion, But The External Often Proclaims The Internal.

It Is For You And Me To Show That No Vice Is Inherent In Man.

So Long As Untouchability Disfigures Hinduism, So Long Do I Hold The Attainment Of Swaraj To Be An Utter Impossibility.

Anything That Exists Is Possible.

Yajna Is Not Yajna If One Feels It To Be Burdensome Or Annoying.

If You Want To Play Your Part In The World's Affairs, You Must Refuse To Deck Yourselves For Pleasing Man.

Nonviolence Succeeds Only When We Have A Real Living Faith In God.

Nonviolence Is The Rock On Which The Whole Structure Of Non-co-operation Is Built.

The Avowed Policy Of Non-co-operation Has Been Not To Make Political Use Of The Disputes Between Labour And Capital.

Ahimsa Is The Height Of Kshatriya Dharma As It Represents The Climax Of Fearlessness.

You Cannot Succeed In One Department Of Life While Cheating On Another, Life Is An Indivisible Whole.

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