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Men To Be Men Must Be Able To Trust Their Womenfolk, Even As The Latter Are Compelled To Trust Them.

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Men To Be Men Must Be Able To Trust Their Womenfolk, Even As The Latter Are Compelled To Trust Them.

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

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.

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Further March Of Civilization Seems To Employ Increasing Domination Of Man Over Beast, Together With A Growingly Humane Method Of Using Them.

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

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India Unarmed Would Not Require To Be Destroyed Through Poison Gas Or Bombardment.

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

Running Away For Fear Of Death, Leaving One's Dear Ones, Temples Or Music To Take Care Of Themselves, Is Irreligion; It Is Cowardice.

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Nonviolent Action Without The Co-operation Of The Heart And The Head Cannot Produce The Intended Result.

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

Man Is Oftentimes Weak-minded Enough To Be Caught In The Snare Of Greed And Honeyed Words.

Prayer Is Either Petitional Or, In Its Wider Sense, Inward Communion.

Mass Illiteracy Is India's Sin And Shame And Must Be Liquidated.

Breach Of Promise Is No Less An Act Of Insolvency Than A Refusal To Pay One's Debt.

Every Truth Is Self-acting And Possesses Inherent Strength.

Peace Through Superior Violence Inevitably Leads To The Atom Bomb And All That It Stands For.

Religion Should Be Dearer Than Life Itself.

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.

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

The State Is The Sum Total Of The Sacrifice, On Its Behalf, Of Its Members.

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.

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Ahimsa Was Preached To Man When He Was In Full Vigor Of Life And Able To Look His Adversaries Straight In The Face.

Swadeshi Is The Only Doctrine Consistent With The Law Of Humanity And Love.

No Country Can Become A Nation By Producing A Race Of Imitators.

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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.

The Real Property That A Parent Can Transmit To All Equally Is His Or Her Character And Educational Facilities.

If You Do Nothing There Will Be No Results

All Have Not The Same Capacity. I Would Allow A Man Of Intellect To Earn More, I Would Not Cramp His Talent.

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.

The Hater Hates Not For The Sake Of Hatred But Because He Wants To Drive Away From His Country The Hated Being Or Beings.

Through Khadi We Teach The People The Art Of Civil Obedience To An Institution Which They Have Built Up For Themselves.

The Gita Is Not An Aphoristic Work, It Is A Great Religious Poem.

Great Religious

I Am Wedded To India Because I Owe My All To Her.

The Science Of War Leads One To Dictatorship, Pure And Simple. The Science Of Non-violence Alone Can Lead One To Pure Democracy. Power Based On Love Is Thousand Times More Effective And Permanent Than Power Derived From Fear Of Punishment. It Is A Blasphemy To Say Non-violence Can Be Practiced Only By Individuals And Never By Nations Which Are Composed Of Individuals. The Nearest Approach To Purest Anarchy Would Be A Democracy Based On Non-violence. A Society Organized And Run On The Basis Of Complete Non-violence Would Be The Purest Anarchy.

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.

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.

Close The Day With Prayer So That You May Have A Peaceful Night Free From Dreams And Nightmares.

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.

I Must Declare That It Is Better For India Do Discard Violence Altogether Even For Defending Her Borders.

Dining And Marriage Restrictions Stunt Hindu Society.

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

Solitude Is A Catalyst For Innovation

Prayer Needs No Speech. It Is In Itself Independent Of Any Sensuous Effort. But It Must Be Combined With The Utmost Humility.

Is Not Labour, Like Learning, Its Own Reward?

We But Mirror The World. All The Tendencies Present In The Outer World Are To Be Found In The World Of Our Body. If We Could Change Ourselves, The Tendencies In The World Would Also Change. As A Man Changes His Own Nature, So Does The Attitude Of The World Change Towards Him. This Is The Divine Mystery Supreme. A Wonderful Thing It Is And The Source Of Our Happiness. We Need Not Wait To See What Others Do.

I Cannot Picture To Myself A Time When All Mankind Will Have One Religion.

If India Adopted The Doctrine Of Love As An Active Part Of Her Religion And Introduced It In Her Politics. Swaraj Would Descend Upon India From Heaven. But I Am Painfully Aware That That Event Is Far Off As Yet.

There Is No Principle Worth The Name If It Is Not Wholly Good.

The Law Which Governs All Life Is God.

There Is As Much Need For A Change Of Heart Among The Hindus And Mussalmans As There Is Among The British, Before A Proper Settlement Is Arrived At.

A Semi-starved Nation Can Have Neither Religion Nor Art Nor Organization.

Nearly Everything You Do Is Of No Importance, But It Is Important That You Do It.

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.

The Congress Fights Not With Violent But With Nonviolent Means, However Imperfect, However Crude The Nonviolence May Be.

It Is The Law Of Love That Rules Mankind.

Intolerance, Discourtesy And Harshness..... Are Taboo In All Good Society And Are Surely Contrary To The Spirit Of Democracy.

The Religion Of Nonviolence Is Not Meant Merely For Therishis And Saints.

No Power On Earth Can Resist The Lovers Of Liberty Who Are Ready Not To Kill Opponents, But Be Killed By Them.

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.

Nothing Once Begun Should Be Abandoned, Unless It Is Proved To Be Morally Wrong.

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