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Its Unadulterated Belief In The Oneness Of God And A Practical Application Of The Truth Of The Brotherhood Of Man For Those Who Are Nominally Within Its Fold Are Two Distinctive Contributions Of Islam.

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Its Unadulterated Belief In The Oneness Of God And A Practical Application Of The Truth Of The Brotherhood Of Man For Those Who Are Nominally Within Its Fold Are Two Distinctive Contributions Of Islam.

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God Cannot Be So Cruel And Unjust As To Make The Distinctions Of High And Low Between Man And Man, And Woman And Woman.

The Function Of Violence Is To Obtain Reform By External Means, The Function Of Passive Resistance, That Is, Soul-force, Is To Obtain It By Growth From Within, Which, In Its Turn, Is Obtained By Self-suffering, Self-purification.

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

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Just As One Must Learn The Art Of Killing In The Training For Violence, So One Must Learn The Art Of Dying In The Training For Nonviolence.

What Has Appealed To Me Most In Tolstoy's Life Is That He Practiced What He Preached And Reckoned No Cost Too Great In His Pursuit Of Truth.

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.

The True Measure Of Any Society Can Be Found In How It Treats Its Most Vulnerable Members

The Power Of Nonviolent Resistance Can Only Come From Honest Working Of The Constructive Programme.

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.

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

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The Spinning Wheel Is As Much A Necessity Of Indian Life As Air And Water.

Eye For Eye And The World Will Go Blind.

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

Even The Most Sublime Ideas Sound Ridiculous If Heard Too Often. Be The Change That You Want To See In The World.

The Person Who Discovered The Law Of Love Was A Far Greater Scientist Than Any Of Our Modern Scientists. Only Our Explorations Have Not Gone Far Enough And So It Is Not Possible For Everyone To See All Its Workings.

I Regard Duryodhana And His Party As The Baser Impulses In Man, And Arjuna And His Party As The Higher Impulses.

The Attack On Untouchability Is An Attack On This High-and Low-ness.

Civil Disobedience And Excitement And Intoxication Go Ill Together.

True Happiness Brings More Richness Than All The Money In The World.

Make Injustice Visible.

The Force Of Nonviolence Is Infinitely More Wonderful And Subtle Than The Material Forces Of Nature, Like Electricity.

We Labor Under The Fatal Delusion That No Disease Can Be Cured Without Medicine. This Has Been Responsible For More Mischief To Mankind Than Any Other Evil. ...disease Increases In Proportion To The Increase To The Number Of Doctors In A Place.

Whatever You Do May Seem Insignificant To You, But It Is Most Important That You Do It.

There Are Times When You Have To Obey A Call Which Is The Highest Of All, I.e. The Voice Of Conscience Even Though Such Obedience May Cost Many A Bitter Tear, And Even More, Separation From Friends, From Family, From The State, To Which You May Belong, From All That You Have Held As Dear As Life Itself. For This Obedience Is The Law Of Our Being.

Distinguish Between Real Needs And Artificial Wants And Control The Latter.

My Implicit Faith In Nonviolence Does Mean Yielding To Minorities When They Are Really Weak.

It Is Poor Faith That Needs Fair Weather For Standing Firm. That Alone Is True Faith That Stands The Foulest Weather.

Schools And Colleges Are Really A Factory For Turning Out Clerks For The Government.

Khaddar Is An Activity That Can Absorb All The Time Of All Available Men And Women And Grown-up Children, If They Have Faith.

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Wherever Flaxseeds Become A Regular Food Item Among The People, There Will Be Better Health.

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What Is Truth? A Difficult Question; But I Have Solved It For Myself By Saying That It Is What The "voice Within" Tells You. All That I Can In True Humility Present To You Is That Truth Is Not To Be Found By Anybody Who Has Not Got An Abundant Sense Of Humility. If You Would Swim On The Bosom Of The Ocean Of Truth You Must Reduce Yourself To Zero.

No Government On Earth Can Make Men, Who Have Realized Freedom In Their Hearts, Salute Against Their Will.

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

A Nonviolent Action Accompanied By Nonviolence In Thought And Word Should Never Produce Enduring Violent Reaction Upon The Opponent.

The Earth Has Enough Resources For Our Need, But Not For Our Greed.

Let Us All Be Brave Enough To Die The Death Of A Martyr, But Let No One Lust For Martyrdom.

Throughout The History Of Mankind There Have Been Murderers And Tyrants; And While It May Seem Momentarily That They Have The Upper Hand, They Have Always Fallen. Always.

Even A Believer In Nonviolence Has To Say Between Two Combatants Which Is Less Bad Or Whose Cause Is Just.

Untouchability Is A Many-headed Monster And Forms, Some Of Them So Subtle As Not To Be Easily Detected.

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

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Nonviolent Action Means Mobilization Of World Opinion In Our Favour.

There Is No Doubt That Our Last State Will Be Worse Than Our First, If We Surrender Our Reason Into Somebody's Keeping.

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.

My Religion Says That Only He Who Is Prepared To Suffer Can Pray To God.

A Warrior Lives On His Wars, Whether Offensive Or Defensive. And He Suffers A Collapse If He Finds That His Warring Capacity Is Unwanted.

I Abhor Vivisection With My Whole Soul. All The Scientific Discoveries Stained With Innocent Blood I Count As Of No Consequence.

Nonviolence Is The Law Of Our Species As Violence Is The Law Of The Brute. The Spirit Lies Dormant In The Brute, And He Knows No Law But That Of Physical Might. The Dignity Of Man Requires Obedience To A Higher Laws - To The Strength Of The Spirit.

I Call Him Religious Who Understands The Suffering Of Others.

God Never Made Man That He May Consider Another Man As Untouchable.

However Virile The English Language May Be, It Can Never Become The Language Of The Masses Of India.

Only My Death Will Determine Whether I Am 'mohamed Gandhi', Jinnah's Slave, Destroyer Of The Hindu Religion Or Its Servant And Protector.

Literary Education Is Of No Value, If It Is Not Able To Build Up A Sound Character.

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Freedom Received Though The Efforts Of Others, However Benevolent, Cannot Be Retained When Such Effort Is Withdrawn.

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Man Has Regarded Woman As His Tool. She Has Learnt To Be His Tool And In The End Found It Is Easy And Pleasurable To Be Such, Because When One Drags Another In His Fall, The Descent Is Easy.

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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.

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Without Living Truth, God Is Nowhere.

We Want To Go In For Suffering, And There May Be Torture. If We Put The Women In Front The Government May Hesitate To Inflict On Us All The Penalty That They Might Otherwise Inflict.

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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.

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Violent Means Will Give Violent Freedom.

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There Is An Indefinable Mysterious Power That Pervades Everything.

A Seeker Of Truth Will Never Begin By Discounting His Opponent's Statement As Unworthy Of Trust.

Hinduism Dies If Untouchability Lives, And Untouchability Has To Die If Hinduism Is To Live.

You Are No Satyagrahi If You Remain Silent Or Passive Spectators While Your Enemy Is Being Done To Death.

In Matters Of Conscience, The Law Of The Majority Has No Place.

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The Real Implication Of Equal Distribution Is That Each Man Shall Have The Wherewithal To Supply All His Natural Needs And No More.

It Is Derogatory To The Dignity Of Mankind, It Is Derogatory To The Dignity Of India, To Entertain For One Single Moment Hatred Towards Englishmen.

It Only Confirms Me In My Belief That There Is No Swaraj Without A Settlement With The Mussalmans.

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.

A Congregational Prayer Is A Means For Establishing Essential Human Unity Though Common Worship.

Surely, Conversion Is A Matter Between Man And His Maker Who Alone Knows His Creatures' Hearts.

Ahimsa In Theory No One Knows. It Is As Indefinable As God.

A Clear Victory Of Satyagraha Is Impossible So Long As There Is Ill Will.

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.

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.

Ahimsa Is The Highest Ideal. It Is Meant For The Brave, Never For The Cowardly.

No Society Can Possibly Be Built On A Denial Of Individual Freedom.

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.

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.

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.

India Will Not Be A Helpless Partner In Her Own Exploitation And Foreign Domination.

Democracy Is Not A State In Which People Act Like Sheep.

My Varnashram Dharma Teaches Me That There Must Be Some Significance In The Fact Of My Being Born In India Instead Of In Europe.

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.

The Spinning Wheel Means National Consciousness And A Contribution By Every Individual To A Definite Constructive National Work.

The Power Of Unarmed Nonviolence Is Any Day Far Superior To That Of Armed Force.

Our Non-co-operation Is With The System The English Have Established In India, With The Material Civilization And Its Attendant Greed And Exploitation Of The Weak.

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

Every Woman Will Tell The Curious That With The Disappearance Of The Spinning Wheel Vanished India's Happiness And Prosperity.

An Error Does Not Become Truth By Reason Of Multiplied Propagation, Nor Does Truth Become Error Because Nobody Sees It.

The Only True Resistance To This Government... [is] To Cease To Co-operate With It.

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.

The British Power Is The Overlord Without Whom Indian Princes Cannot Breathe.

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.

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

If One Person Gains Spiritually, The Whole World Gains

Always Believe In Your Dreams, Because If You Don't, You'll Still Have Hope.

Your Life Is Your Message.

I Reject Any Religious Doctrine That Does Not Appeal To Reason And Is In Conflict With Morality.

God Chooses As His Instrument The Humblest And Weakest Of His Creatures To Fulfill Himself.

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

Ahimsa And Truth Are My Two Lungs. I Cannot Live Without Them.

The Field Of Research In The Doctrine Of Civil Resistance Is Necessarily Limited, As The Occasions For Civil Resistance In A Man's Life Must Not Be Frequent.

One May Detest The Wickedness Of A Brother Without Hating Him.

Whatever I Do Is Out Of Love.

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.

When Nonviolence Is Accepted As The Law Of Life, It Must Pervade The Whole Being And Not Be Applied To Isolated Acts.

Doubt Is Invariably The Result Of Want Or Weakness Of Faith.

Is Not Education The Art Of Drawing Out Full Manhood Of The Children Under Training?

Our Duty Is Very Simple And Plain. We Want To Serve The Community, And In Our Own Humble Way To Serve The Empire. We Believe In The Righteousness Of The Cause, Which It Is Our Privilege To Espouse. We Have An Abiding Faith In The Mercy Of The Almighty God, And We Have Firm Faith In The British Constitution. That Being So, We Should Fail In Our Duty If We Wrote Anything With A View To Hurt.

Ahimsa Is One Of The World's Great Principles, Which No Power On Earth Can Wipe Out.

Well, India Is A Country Of Nonsense

Cow Protection To Me Is One Of The Most Wonderful Phenomena In The Human Evolution.

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

There Is Every Reason For Being Cautious About Founding New Universities Till India Has Digested Her Newly Acquired Freedom.

He Who Does Not See God In The Next Person He Meets Need Look No Further.

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?

The Present War Is The Saturation Point In Violence. It Spells, To My Mind, Also Its Doom.

Religion Is A Thing To Be Lived. It Is Not Merely Sophistry.

Restraint Never Ruins One's Health. What Ruins It,is Not Restraint But Outward Suppression. A Really Self-restrained Person Grows Every Day From Strength To Strength And From Peace To More Peace. The Very First Step In Self-restraint Is The Restraint Of Thoughts.

Non-cooperatio N With Evil Is A Sacred Duty.

My Creed Of Nonviolence Is An Extremely Active Force.

I Want India To Come Into Her Own And That State Cannot Be Better Defined By Any Single Word Than Swaraj.

We Should Be Able To Refuse To Live If The Price Of Living Be The Torture Of Sentient Beings.

Idleness Is The Great Plague Of India.

As A Rule I Had A Distaste For Any Reading Beyond My School Books.

Because No One Sees The Truth Does Not Make It Untrue.

It's A Big Error To Dream Of A Society Where Nobody Needs To Be Good.

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.

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.

Soul-force Comes Only Through God's Grace And Never Descends Upon A Man Who Is A Slave To Lust.

Renunciation Is Everyone's Prerogative.

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

Poverty Is The Worst Form Of Violence.

Hunger And Poverty

The One Religion Is Beyond All Speech.

I Suffer Snakes To Be Killed In The Ashram When It Is Impossible To Catch Them And Put Them Out Of Harm's Way.

Economic Equality Is The Master-key To Nonviolent Independence.

To Bear All Kinds Of Tortures Without A Murmur Of Resentment Is Not Possible For A Human Being Without The Strength That Comes From God.

The Spinning Wheel Is Not Meant To Oust A Single Man Or Woman From His Or Her Occupation.

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.

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

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.

Rama Was Not Only On The Lips Of Hanuman. He Was Enthroned In His Heart. He Gave Hanuman Exhaustless Strength.

Keep Your Values Positive, Because Your Values Become Your Destiny.

Positive Thinking

Positive Attitude

If Britain Wins Wholly, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy And Perhaps Even Bolshevik Russia Will Disappear.

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.

The Purification Required Is Not Of Untouchables But Of The So-called Superior Castes.

For A Satyagrahi Brigade Only Those Are Eligible Who Believe In Ahimsa And Satya.

My Knowledge Of The Letter Of The Shastras Is Better, But Of True Religion They Are Able To Give Me But Little.

True Education Is That Which Proves Useful In Life And Makes You Industrious.

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

A Satyagrahi Lays Down His Life, But Never Gives Up. That Is The Meaning Of The 'do Or Die' Slogan.

Life And Death Are But Phases Of The Same Thing, The Reverse And Obverse Of The Same Coin. Death Is As Necessary For Man's Growth As Life Itself.

Even If You Are A Minority Of One, The Truth Is The Truth.

Speak Your Mind

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.

Woman Is More Fitted Than Man To Make Explorations And Take Bolder Action In Ahimsa.

Lady Is The Buddy Of Man, Skilled With Equivalent Mental Limit.

Renunciation Is The Central Sun, Round Which Devotion, Knowledge And The Rest Revolve Like Planets.

If You Must Kill English Officials, Why Not Kill Me Instead?

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.

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.

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.

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.

Fasting Is Futile Unless It Is Accompanied By An Incessant Longing For Self-restraint.

Nonviolence Is The Greatest Force At The Disposal Of Mankind.

Independence Means Voluntary Restraints And Discipline, Voluntary Acceptance Of The Rule Of Law.

God Is The Shield Of The Nonviolent.

In Man, Reason Quickens And Guides Feelings; In Brute, The Soul Lies Ever Dormant.

The Greatness Of The Human Being Is Not In The Reincarnation Of The World But In The Reincarnation Of Ourselves.

One Is Ever Young In The Presence Of The God Of Truth, Or Truth Which Is God.

Ahimsa Must Express Itself Through Acts Of Selfless Service Of The Masses.

Selfless Service

For A Non-violent Person The Whole World Is One Family. He Will Thus Fear None, Nor Will Others Fear Him.

The Truth Is Far More Powerful Than Any Weapon Of Mass Destruction.

Mass Destruction

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

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