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The Truth Can Never Be Wrong, Even If No One Hears It.

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The Truth Can Never Be Wrong, Even If No One Hears It.

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If There Ever Is To Be A Republic Of Every Village In India, Then I Claim Verity For My Picture In Which The Last Is Equal To The First Or, In Other Words, No One Is To Be The First And None The Last.

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

In Placing Civil Disobedience Before Constructive Work I Was Wrong And I Did Not Profit By The Himalayan Blunder That I Had Committed.

In The Days Of Democracy There Is No Such Thing As Active Loyalty To A Person. You Are, Therefore, Loyal Or Disloyal To Institutions.

There Being No Absolute And Universal Standard Of Right, Terrorism Must Be Held To Be Wrong In Every Case.

There Is Force In The Universe, Which, If We Permit It, Will Flow Through Us And Produce Miraculous Results.

Today, As It Was 2,000 Years Ago, The Kingdom Of God Is Within Each Of Us. It Is Not Within A Church, A Temple, A Mosque Or Synagogue.

We Often Confuse Spiritual Knowledge With Spiritual Attainment. Spirituality Is Not A Matter Of Knowing Scriptures And Engaging In Philosophical Discussions. It Is A Matter Of Heart Culture, Of Unmeasurable Strength.

Non-cooperation Is Beyond The Reach Of The Bayonet. It Has Found An Abiding Place In The Indian Heart. Workers Like Me Will Go When The Hour Has Struck, But Non-cooperation Will Remain.

Ahimsa Is No Mere Theory With Me, But It Is A Fact Of Life Based On Extensive Experience.

The Very First Step In Nonviolence Is That We Cultivate In Our Daily Life, As Between Ourselves, Truthfulness, Humility, Tolerance, Loving Kindness.

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

I Swear By Swadeshi As It Affords Occasion For Ample Exercise Of All Our Faculties And It Tests Every One Of The Millions Of Men And Women, Young And Old.

Freedom Is Not Worth Having If It Does Not Connote Freedom To Err.

People Cannot Hurt You Without Your Permission.

A Thousand Candles Can Be Lighted From The Flame Of One Candle, And The Life Of The Candle Will Not Be Shortened. Happiness Can Be Spread Without Diminishing That Of Yourself.

Useful Manual Labour, Intelligently Performed, Is The Means Par Excellence For Developing The Intellect.

"all Men Are Born Equal And Free" Is Not Nature's Law In The Literal Sense.

God Himself Has Reserved No Right Of Revision Of His Own Laws Nor Is There Any Need For Him For Any Such Revision.

A Samagra Gramsevak Must Know Everybody Living In The Village And Render Them Such Service As He Possibly Can.

Truth And Nonviolence Are As Old As The Hills.

Courtesy Towards Opponents And Eagerness To Understand Their View-point Is The Abc Of Non-violence.

A Jailer Is As Much A Prisoner As His Prisoner.

Of All The Myriads Of God, Daridranarayana Is The Most Sacred Inasmuch As It Represents The Untold Millions Of The Poor People As Distinguished From The Few Rich People.

The Khadi Spirit Means Fellow-feeling With Every Human Being On Earth.

High Thinking Is Inconsistent With A Complicated Material Life Based On High Speed And Imposed On Us By Mammon Worship.

My Life Is An Indivisible Whole, And All My Attitudes Run Into One Another; And They All Have Their Rise In My Insatiable Love For Mankind.

Out Of The Performance Of Duties Flow Rights, And Those That Knew And Performed Their Duties Came Naturally By Their Rights.

Satyagraha Is A Relentless Search For Truth And A Determination To Search Truth.

Hinduism Has Become A Conservative Religion And, Therefore, A Mighty Force Because Of The Swadeshi Spirit Underlying It.

The Only Safe And Honorable Course For A Self-respecting Man Is To Do What I Have Decided To Do, That Is, To Submit Without Protest To The Penalty Of Disobedience ... Not For Want Of Respect For Lawful Authority, But In Obedience To The Higher Law Of Our Being, The Voice Of Conscience.

Mere Mental, That Is, Intellectual Labour, Is For The Soul And Has Its Own Satisfaction.

Calling Them Devadasis We Insult God Himself In The Name Of Religion.

The Earth Has Everything For All Human Needs, But Nothing For His Greed.

Nothing Is Of A Permanent Nature.

No Swaraj Government With Any Pretension To Being A Popular Government Can Possibly Be Organised And Maintained On A War-footing.

The Instruments For The Quest For Truth Are As Simple As They Are Difficult.

Man Must Choose Either Of The Two Courses, The Upward Or The Downward; But As He Has The Brute In Him, He Will More Easily Choose The Downward Course Than The Upward, Especially When The Downward Course Is Presented To Him In A Beautiful Garb. Man Easily Capitulates When Sin Is Presented In The Garb Of Virtue.

I Suppose Leadership At One Time Meant Muscles; But Today It Means Getting Along With People.

All The Other Industries Will Receive Warmth And Sustenance From Khadi Industry.

When I Despair, I Remember That All Through History The Way Of Truth And Love Has Always Won. There Have Been Tyrants And Murderers And For A Time They Seem Invincible, But In The End, They Always Fall... Think Of It, Always.

We Dare Not Enter The Kingdom Of Liberty With Mere Life-homage To Truth And Nonviolence.

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

When A Man Wants To Make Up With His Maker, He Does Not Consult A Third Party.

Vaccination Is A Barbarous Practice And One Of The Most Fatal Of All The Delusions Current In Our Time. Conscientious Objectors To Vaccination Should Stand Alone, If Need Be, Against The Whole World, In Defense Of Their Conviction.

When Faced With A Choice Between Violence And Cowardice, Always Choose Violence

The English Peace Is The Peace Of The Grave.

A Clean Confession Combined With A Promise Never To Commit The Sin Again, When Offered Before One Who Has The Right To Receive It, Is The Purest Type Of Repentance.

Nonviolence Becomes Meaningless If Violence Is Permitted For Self-defence.

The Lives Of Zoroaster, Jesus And Mohammed, As I Have Understood Them, Have Illumined Many A Passage In The Gita.

Newspapers Today Have Almost Replaced The Bible, The Koran, The Gita And Other Religious Scriptures.

In The Gita Continuous Concentration On God Is The King Of Sacrifices.

A Friendship That Exacts Oneness Of Opinion And Conduct Is Not Worth Much.

In Doing Something, Do It With Love Or Never Do It At All.

I Desire No Honour If I Have To Conceal My Religious Beliefs In Order To Have It.

Nonviolent Non-co-operation, I Am Convinced, Is A Sacred Duty At Times.

It Is My Unshakable Belief That India's Destiny Is To Deliver The Message Of Nonviolence To Mankind.

Bravery Is Not Man's Monopoly.

The Removal Of Untouchability Is A Question Of The Purification Of Hinduism.

Passive Resistance Is A Method Of Securing Rights By Personal Suffering; It Is The Reverse Of Resistance By Arms.

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I Have Called Spinning The Yajna Of This Age Of India.

The Only Difference Between Man And Man All The World Over Is One Of Degree, And Not Of Kind, Even As There Is Between Trees Of The Same Species. Where In Is The Cause For Anger, Envy Or Discrimination?

I Am Not Anti-english, I Am Not Anti-british, I Am Not Anti-any Government, But I Am Anti-untruth, Anti-humbug And Anti-injustice.

History Is Replete With Instances Of Men, Who, By Dying With Courage And Compassion On Their Lips Converted The Hearts Of Their Violent Opponents.

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

I Look Upon Air-power For Destruction As A Terrible Crime Against Humanity.

The Way Of Mutual Strife And Exclusiveness Is The Only Way To Perdition And Slavery.

I Believe In Advaita, I Believe In The Essential Unity Of Man And For That Matter Of All That Lives.

The English Language Is So Elastic That You Can Find Another Word To Say The Same Thing.

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The Most Violent Weapon On Earth Is The Table Fork.

People In A Democracy Should Be Satisfied With Drawing The Government's Attention To A Mistake, If Any.

Mental Violence Has No Potency And Injures Only The Person Whose Thoughts Are Violent. It Is Otherwise With Mental Non-violence. It Has Potency Which The World Does Not Yet Know.

There Are Two Days In The Year That We Can Not Do Anything, Yesterday And Tomorrow

The Primary Object Of Non-co-operation Is Nowhere Stated To Be Paralysis Of The Government. The Primary Object Is Self-purification.

I Am Endeavouring To See God Through Service Of Humanity; For I Know That God Is Neither In Heaven, Nor Down Below, But In Everyone.

The Man Who Fears Man Falls From The Estate Of Man. Fear God Alone.

I Can Neither Serve God Nor Humanity If As An Indian I Do Not Serve India, And As A Hindu I Do Not Serve Indian Mussalmans.

I Believe In Trusting. Trust Begets Trust. Suspicion Is Foetid And Only Stinks. He Who Trusts Has Never Yet Lost In The World.

Nonviolent Non-co-operators Can Only Succeed When They Have Succeeded In Attaining Control Over The Hooligans Of India.

Possession Of Arms Implies An Element Of Fear, If Not Of Cowardice.

Hinduism Is Not A Codified Religion.

By Using Violence To Subjugate One Another We Are Using Violence Against Our Own Souls.

All Our Philosophy Is As Dry As Dust If It Is Not Immediately Translated Into Some Act Of Living Service.

I Believe In The Fundamental Truth Of All Great Religions Of The World.

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.

I Will Not Have The Power Of Nonviolence To Be Underestimated In Order To Cover My Limitations Or Weaknesses.

The Dry Knowledge Of The Three R's Is Not Even Now, It Can Never Be, A Permanent Part Of The Villagers' Life.

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

It Is The Law Of Love That Rules Mankind. Had Violence, I.e. Hate, Rules Us We Would Have Become Extinct Long Ago. And Yet, The Tragedy Of It Is That The So-called Civilised Men And Nations Conduct Themselves As If The Basis Of Society Was Violence.

The Greater Our Innocence, The Greater Our Strength And The Swifter Our Victory

Intolerance Is A Species Of Violence And Therefore Against Our Creed.

Nonviolence Is Not An Easy Thing To Understand, Still Less To Practice, Weak As We Are.

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

If An Enemy Strikes Your Left Cheek, Offer Him Your Right.

I Appeal For Cessation Of Hostilities, Not Because You Are Too Exhausted To Fight, But Because War Is Bad In Essence. You Want To Kill Nazism. You Will Never Kill It By Its Indifferent Adoption.

Man Can Never Be A Woman's Equal In The Spirit Of Selfless Service With Which Nature Has Endowed Her.

Restraint Never Ruins One's Health.

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

The Moment There Is Suspicion About A Person's Motives, Everything He Does Becomes Tainted.

The Nonviolent Man Automatically Becomes A Servant Of God.

There Is Always The Fear Of Self-righteousness Possessing Us, The Fear Of Arrogating To Ourselves A Superiority That We Do Not Possess.

Confession Of Errors Is Like A Broom Which Sweeps Away The Dirt And Leaves The Surface Brighter And Clearer. I Feel Stronger For Confession.

Our Ability To Reach Unity In Diversity Will Be The Beauty And The Test Of Our Civilization.

What Is Life Worth Without Trials And Tribulations Which Are The Salt Of Life.

A Man Of Truth Must Also Be A Man Of Care.

Whatever May Be True Of The Other Modes Of Warfare, Insatyagraha It Has Been Held That The Causes For Failure Are To Be Sought Within.

I Learnt From Hussein How To Achieve Victory While Being Oppressed.

With Every True Friendship, We Build More Firmly The Foundations On Which The Peace Of The Whole World Rests.

I Would Like To Bury Myself In An Indian Village, Preferably In A Frontier Village.

You Never Know Where Your Actions Will Lead To. But If You Don't Do Anything They Will Lead You Nowhere.

A Person Who Believes In Nonviolence Believes In A Living God. He Cannot Accept Defeat.

God, Who Is The Embodiment Of Truth And Right And Justice, Can Never Have Sanctioned A Religion Or Practice Which Regards One - Fifth Of Our Vast Population As Untouchables.

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

... Man Was Not Born A Carnivorous Animal, But Born To Live On The Fruits And Herbs That The Earth Grows. I Know We Must All Err. I Would Give Up Milk If I Could, But I Cannot. I Have Made That Experiment Times Without Number. I Could Not, After A Serious Illness, Regain My Strength, Unless I Went Back To Milk. That Has Been The Tragedy Of My Life. But The Basis Of My Vegetarianism Is Not Physical, But Moral. If Anybody Said That I Should Die If I Did Not Take Beef Tea Or Mutton, Even On Medical Advice, I Would Prefer Death. That Is The Basis Of My Vegetarianism.

The Earth, The Air, The Land And The Water Are Not An Inheritance From Our Fore Fathers But On Loan From Our Children. So We Have To Handover To Them At Least As It Was Handed Over To Us.

Without Prayer There Is No Inward Peace.

The Object Of Basic Education Is The Physical, Intellectual And Moral Development Of Children Through The Medium Of Handicraft.

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A Literal Interpretation Of The Gita Lands One In A Sea Of Contradictions.

The Law Is God. Anything Attributed To Him Is Not A Mere Attribute. He Is Truth, Love, Law And A Million Things That Human Ingenuity Can Name.

Without An Unreserved Surrender To His Grace, Complete Mastery Over Thoughts Is Impossible.

My Swaraj Is To Keep Intact The Genius Of Our Civilization.

No Man Could Look Upon Another As His Enemy, Unless He First Became His Own Enemy.

Mankind Is Notoriously Too Dense To Read The Signs That God Sends From Time To Time. We Require Drums To Be Beaten Into Our Ears, Before We Should Wake From Our Trance And Hear The Warning And See That To Lose Oneself In All, Is The Only Way To Find Oneself.

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

If It Weren't For Christians, I'd Be A Christian.

The Bhagavad-gita Calls On Humanity To Dedicate Body, Mind And Soul To Pure Duty And Not To Become Mental Voluptuaries At The Mercy Of Random Desires And Undisciplined Impulses.

In A Society Based On Nonviolence, The Smallest Nation Will Feel As Tall As The Tallest.

All I Want To Say, With The Utmost Emphasis At My Command, Is That The Description Of India As A Military Country Is Wrong.

The Science Of Nonviolence Can Alone Lead One To Pure Democracy.

Democracy Demands Patient Instruction On It Before Legislation.

The Purer I Try To Become, The Nearer I Feel To Be To God.

Mr. Gandhi, You Have Been Working Fifteen Hours A Day For Fifty Years. Don't You Think You Should Take A Vacation?" Gandhi Smiled And Replied, "i Am Always On Vacation.

God, As Truth, Has Been For Me A Treasure Beyond Price. May He Be So To Every One Of Us.

I Claim To Be No More Than The Average Person With Less Than Average Ability. I Have Not The Shadow Of A Doubt That Any Man Or Woman Can Achieve What I Have, If He Or She Would Make The Same Effort And Cultivate The Same Hope And Faith.

There Is No School Equal To A Decent Home And No Teacher Equal To A Virtuous Parent.

Prayer Is A Confession Of One's Own Unworthiness And Weakness.

He Who Has A Living Faith In God Will Not Do Evil Deeds With Name Of God On His Lips.

All Religions Are Branches Of The Same Mighty Tree, But I Must Not Change Over From One Branch To Another For The Sake Of Expediency.

Nonviolence Does Not Require Any Outside Or Outward Training.

Every Single Act Of One Who Would Lead A Life Of Purity Should Be In The Nature Of Yajna.

For Me To Dominate The Congress In Spite Of These Fundamental Differences Is Almost A Species Of Violence Which I Must Refrain From.

Non-violence Requires A Double Faith, Faith In God And Also Faith In Man.

And Everyone Who Wills Can Hear The Voice. It Is Within Every One. But Like Everything Else It Requires Previous And Definite Preparation.

My Purpose Is To Describe Experiments In The Science Ofsatyagraha And Not At All To Describe How Good I Am.

The Whole Of India Was The Home Of Every Indian Who Considered Himself As One And Behaved As Such, No Matter To What Faith He Belonged.

India Is Less Manly Under The British Rule Than She Ever Was Before.

Faith... Must Be Enforced By Reason... When Faith Becomes Blind It Dies.

This Belief In God Has To Be Based On Faith Which Transcends Reason.

A Love That Is Based On The Goodness Of Those Whom You Love Is A Mercenary Affair.

Anger Is The Enemy Of Non-violence And Pride Is A Monster That Swallows It Up.

Rationalists Are Admirable Beings, Rationalism Is A Hideous Monster When It Claims For Itself Omnipotence. Attribution Of Omnipotence To Reason Is As Bad A Piece Of Idolatry As Is Worship Of Stock And Stone Believing It To Be God.

A Man Who Throws Himself On God Ceases To Fear Man

Live Simply That Others Might Simply Live.

A Vow Is Fixed And Unalterable Determination To Do A Thing, When Such A Determination Is Related To Something Noble Which Can Only Uplift The Man Who Makes The Resolve.

A Life Without Vows Is Like A Ship Without An Anchor Or Like An Edifice That Is Built On Sand Instead Of A Solid Rock.

It Was Not Through Democratic Methods That Britain Bagged India.

It Is An Ever-growing Belief With Me That Truth Cannot Be Found By Violent Means.

Untouchability Is A Hydra-headed Monster.

Literacy In Itself Is No Education.

It Is A Tragedy Of The First Magnitude That Millions Of People Have Ceased To Use Their Hands As Hands. Nature Has Bestowed Upon Us This Great Gift Which Is Our Hands. If The Craze For Machinery Method Continues, It Is Highly Likely That A Time Will Come When We Shall Be So Incapacitated And Weak That We Shall Begin To Curse Ourselves For Having Forgotten The Use Of The Living Machines Given To Us By God.

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

Modern Civilization Has Taught Us To Convert Night Into Day And Golden Silence Into Brazen Din And Noise.

Perfection Is The Exclusive Attribute Of God, And It Is Indescribable, Untranslatable. I Do Believe That It Is Possible For Human Beings To Become Perfect, Even As God Is Perfect. It Is Necessary For All Of Us To Aspire After That Perfection But When That Blessed State Is Attained, It Become Indescribable, Indefinable.

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

As The State Is A Soulless Machine, It Can Never Be Weaned From Violence To Which It Owes Its Very Existence.

What Do I Think Of Western Civilization? I Think It Would Be A Very Good Idea.

My Rama, The Rama Of Our Prayers, Is Not The Historical Rama, The Son Of Dasharatha, The King Of Ayodhya.

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.

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

Let Me Say That God Will Send Me The Plan When He Gives The Word As He Has Done Before Now.

I Do Not Want My House To Be Walled In On All Sides And My Windows To Be Stuffed. I Want The Culture Of All Lands To Be Blown About My House As Freely As Possible. But I Refuse To Be Blown Off My Feet By Any

Honest Disagreement Is Often A Good Sign Of Progress.

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

Untouchability, I Hold, Is A Sin, If Bhagavadgita Is One Of Our Divine Books.

Non-co-operation Is A Movement Intended To Invite Englishmen To Co-operate With Us On Honourable Terms Or Retire From Our Land.

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

Where There Are Millions Upon Millions Of Units Of Idle Labour, It Is No Use Thinking Of Labour-saving Devices.

My Hinduism Teaches Me To Respect All Religions. In This Lies The Secret Of Ramarajya.

Is The God Of The Mahometan Different From The God Of The Hindu? Religions Are Different Roads Converging To The Same Point. What Does It Matter That We Take Different Roads So Long As We Reach The Same Goal? Wherein Is The Cause For Quarreling?

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.

There Is No God Higher Than Truth.

Woman Is, By Habit Or Nature, Queen Of The Household. She Is Not Designed To Organize On A Large Scale.

Good Government Is No Substitute For Self-government.

Three Quarters Of The Miseries And Misunderstandings In The World Would Finish If People Were To Put On The Shoes Of Their Adversaries And Understood Their Points Of View

As Soon As We Become One With The Ocean In The Shape Of God, There Is No More Rest For Us, Nor Indeed Do We Need Rest Any Longer.

If Love Or Non-violence Be Not The Law Of Our Being, The Whole Of My Argument Falls To Pieces.

All Sins Are Committed In Secrecy. The Moment We Realize That God Witnesses Even Our Thoughts, We Shall Be Free.

If We Have Listening Ears, God Speaks To Us In Our Own Language, Whatever That Language Be

I Know That Not Only Is Swaraj Our Birthright, But It Is Our Sacred Duty To Win It.

Our Prayer Is A Heart Search. It Is A Reminder To Ourselves That We Are Helpless Without His Support.

There Is A Vital Connection Between Satyagraha And Charkha, And The More I Find That Belief Challenged, The More I Am Confirmed In It.

Deeds And Seeds, Take Their Own Time To Fructify.

Proved Right Should Be Capable Of Being Vindicated By Right Means As Against The Rude I.e. Sanguinary Means. Man May And Should Shed His Own Blood For Establishing What He Considers To Be His Right. He May Not Shed The Blood Of His Opponent Who Disputes His 'right'.

For Me, The Different Religions Are Beautiful Flowers From The Same Garden, Or They Are Branches Of The Same Majestic Tree. Therefore, They Are Equally True, Though Being Received And Interpreted Through Human Instruments Equally Imperfect.

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