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

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

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Lovers Of Swaraj Cannot Rest Till A Solution Is Found Which Would Allay Mussalman Apprehensions And Yet Not Endanger Swaraj.

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

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

I Call Him Religious Who Understands The Suffering Of Others.

Even As Wisdom Often Comes From The Mouths Of Babes, So Does It Often Come From The Mouths Of Old People. The Golden Rule Is To Test Everything In The Light Of Reason And Experience, No Matter From Where It Comes.

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

Unless You Go On Discovering New Applications Of The Law Of Nonviolence, You Do Not Profit By It.

Homeopathy Cures A Larger Percentage Of Cases Than Any Other Form Of Treatment And Is Beyond Doubt Safer And More Economical.

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

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.

Experience Gained In Two Schools Under My Control Has Taught Me That Punishment Does Not Purify, If Anything, It Hardens Children.

I Want Co-operation Between Nations For The Salvaging Of Civilization, But Co-operation Presupposes Free Nations Worthy Of Co-operation.

God's Word Is : He Who Strives Never Perishes.

My Ahimsa Would Not Tolerate The Idea Of Giving A Free Meal To A Healthy Person Who Has Not Worked For It In Some Honest Way.

Indeed, The Test Of Orderliness In A Country Is Not The Number Of Millionaires It Owns, But The Absence Of Starvation Among Its Masses.

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

The Truth Is That Cowardice Itself Is Violence Of A Subtle Type And Therefore Dangerous And Far More Difficult To Eradicate Than The Habit Of Physical Violence.

It Is Easier To Build A Boy Than To Mend A Man.

A Definite Forgiveness Would Mean A Definite Recognition Of Our Strength.

I Have Also Seen Children Successfully Surmounting The Effects Of An Evil Inheritance. That Is Due To Purity Being An Inherent Attribute Of The Soul.

I Have Not Conceived My Mission To Be That Of A Knight-errant Wandering Everywhere To Deliver People From Difficult Situations. My Humble Occupation Has Been To Show People How They Can Solve Their Own Difficulties.

Difficult Situations

The Gita Distinguishes Between The Powers Of Light And Darkness And Demonstrates Their Incompatibility.

Though A Non-co-operator, I Shall Gladly Subscribe To A Bill To Make It Criminal For Anybody To Call Me Mahatma And To Touch My Feet.

Robust Faith In Oneself And Brave Trust Of The Opponent, So Called Or Real, Is The Best Safeguard.

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.

In A Nonviolent Army, The General And The Officers Are Elected, Or Are As If Elected, When Their Authority Is Moral And Rests Solely On The Willing Obedience Of The Rank And File.

I Believe That Religious Education Must Be The Sole Concern Of Religious Associations.

The Greatness Of A Nation And Its Moral Progress Can Be Judged By The Way Its Animals Are Treated. I Hold That The More Helpless A Creature The More Entitled It Is To Protection By Man From The Cruelty Of Humankind.

Nonviolence Of The Strong Is Infinitely Braver Than Their Violence.

Renunciation Means Absence Of Hankering After Fruit.

The Seeker Is At Liberty To Extract From This Treasure Any Meaning He Likes, So As To Enable Him To Enforce In His Life The Central Teaching.

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

Fear Gone, There Can Be No Hatred.

The One Condition For Fighting For Peace And Liberty Is To Acquire Self-restraint.

The History Of The World Is Full Of Men Who Rose To Leadership, By Sheer Force Of Self-confidence, Bravery And Tenacity.

Self Confidence

I Can Not Give You The Reference Of Ram Chandar Or Krishna, Because They Were Not Historical Figures. I Can Not Help It But To Present To You The Names Of (hazrat) Abu Bakar (ra) And (hazrat) Umar Farooq (ra). They Were Leaders Of A Vast Empire, Yet They Lived A Life Of Austerity.

If We Are To Create Peace In Our World, We Must Begin With Our Children.

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.

... There Are Chords In Every Human Heart. If We Only Knew How To Strike The Right Chord, We Would Bring Out The Music.

In The Code Of The Satyagrahi, There Is No Such Thing As Surrender To Brute Force.

Tolstoy Was The Greatest Apostle Of Nonviolence That The Present Age Has Produced.

I Do Regard Spinning And Weaving As A Necessary Part Of Any National System Of Education.

Swadeshism Is Not A Cult Of Hatred. It Is A Doctrine Of Selfless Service That Has Its Roots In The Purest Ahimsa, I.e. Love.

Love Is The Basis Of Our Friendship As It Is Of Religion.

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

We Hindus And Mohamedans Would Have To Blame Our Folly Rather Than The English, If We Allowed Them To Put Us Asunder.

To Forgive Is Not To Forget. The Merit Lies In Loving In Spite Of The Vivid Knowledge That One That Must Be Loved Is Not A Friend. There Is Not Merit In Loving An Enemy When You Forget Him For A Friend.

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

I Believe In The Absolute Oneness Of God And, Therefore, Also Of Humanity. What Though We Have Many Bodies? We Have But One Soul. The Rays Of The Sun Are Many Through Refraction. But They Have The Same Source. I Cannot, Therefore, Detach Myself From The Wickedest Soul (nor May I Be Denied Identity With The Most Virtuous).

In This, Of All The Countries In The World, Possession Of Inordinate Wealth By Individuals Should Be Held As A Crime Against Indian Humanity.

It Is Nonviolent Non-co-operation Which Evokes The Highest Spirit Of Self-sacrifice That Will Wean One From The Error Of One's Ways.

Truth, Which Is Permanent, Eludes The Historian Of Events. Truth Transcends History.

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

Ashram Means A Community Of Men Of Religion. I Feel That An Ashram Was A Necessity Of Life For Me.

The Law Which Governs All Life Is God.

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

Great Religious

All Of Us With One Voice Call One God Differently As Parmatma, Ishwara, Shiva, Vishnu, Rama, Allah, Khuda, Dada-hormuzda, Jehova, God And An Infinite Variety Of Names.

True Beauty Lies In Purity Of The Heart.

My Non-co-operation Is A Token Of My Earnest Longing For Real Heart Co-operation In The Place Of Co-operation Falsely So Called.

It May Be Long Before The Law Of Love Will Be Recognised In International Affairs. The Machineries Of Government Stand Between And Hide The Hearts Of One People From Those Of Another.

The World Easily Finds An Honourable Place For The Magician Who Produces New And Dazzling Things.

I Believe It To Be Perfectly Possible For An Individual To Adopt The Way Of Life Of The Future. . . Without Having To Wait For Others To Do So.

After Long Study And Experience, I Have Come To The Conclusion That (1) All Religions Are True; (2) All Religions Have Some Error In Them; (3) All Religions Are Almost As Dear To Me As My Own Hinduism, In As Much As All Human Beings Should Be As Dear To One As One's Own Close Relatives.

The Still Small Voice Within You Must Always Be The Final Arbiter When There Is A Conflict Of Duty.

Hinduism Has Sinned In Giving Sanction To Untouchability.

Khaddar Has The Greatest Organizing Power In It Because It Has Itself To Be Organized And Because It Affects All India.

The End Of Nonviolent 'war' Is Always An Agreement, Never Dictation, Much Less Humiliation Of The Opponent.

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.

We Must Be The World We Want To Create.

India Must Learn To Live Before She Can Aspire To Die For Humanity.

The Future Of India Lies In Its Villages

Hinduism Is A Living Organism. One And Indivisible At The Root, It Has Grown Into A Vast Tree With Innumerable Branches. Knowledge Is Limitless And So Also The Application Of Truth. Everyday We Add To Our Knowledge Of The Power Of Atman (soul) And We Shall Keep On Doing So.

Bravery Is Not A Quality Of The Body. It Is Of The Soul.

Be The Change You Want To See.

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

If Love Wasn't The Law Of Life, Life Would Not Have Persisted In The Midst Of Death.

Our Greatest Ability As Humans Is Not To Change The World; But To Change Ourselves.

Changing The World

God Of Truth And Justice Can Never Create Distinctions Of High And Low Among His Own Children.

Happiness, The Goal To Which We All Are Striving Is Reached By Endeavoring To Make The Lives Of Others Happy, And If By Renouncing The Luxuries Of Life We Can Lighten The Burdens Of Others.... Surely The Simplification Of Our Wants Is A Thing Greatly To Be Desired! And So, If Instead Of Supposing That We Must Become Hermits And Dwellers In Caves In Order To Practice Simplicity, We Set About Simplifying Our Affairs, Each According To His Own Convictions And Opportunity, Much Good Will Result And The Simple Life Will At Once Be Established.

Without Devotion, Action And Knowledge Are Cold And Dry And Many Even Become Shackles.

Only An Arrogant Man Will Claim To Be Independent Of Everybody Else And Be Self-contained.

Recall The Face Of The Poorest And Weakest Man You Have Seen, And Ask Yourself If This Step You Contemplate Is Going To Be Any Use To Him.

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

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

Never Has Man Reached His Destination By Persistence In Deviation From The Straight Path.

I Cannot In All Conscience Agree To Anyone Being Sent To The Gallows. God Alone Can Take Life Because He Alone Gives It . . .

Khadi Is The Sun Of The Village Solar System.

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.

We No Longer Have A Choice Between Violence And Non-violence. The Choice Of Today Stands Between Nonviolence Or Non-existence.

I Love Christianity, Islam And Many Other Faiths - Through Hinduism.

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

My Faith Is Brightest In The Midst Of Impenetrable Darkness.

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

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

You Cannot Cure A Lesser Evil By A Greater Evil.

Yajna Is Duty To Be Performed, Or Service To Be Rendered, All Twenty-four Hours Of The Day.

I Have In My Life Never Been Guilty Of Saying Things I Did Not Mean - My Nature Is To Go Straight To The Heart And If Often I Fail In Doing So For The Time Being, I Know That Truth Ultimately Makes Itself Heard And Felt, As It Has Often Done In My Experience.

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

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

Rama, Allah And God Are To Me Convertible Terms.

What You Feel And How You React To Something Is Always Up To You. There May Be A "normal" Or A Common Way To React To Different Things. But That's Mostly Just All It Is.

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.

I Have Mentally Become A Woman In Order To Steal Into Her Heart.

Seven Blunders Of The World That Lead To Violence.

Every Affliction Has Its Own Rich Lesson To Teach, If We Would Learn It.

Before Civil Disobedience Can Be Practised On A Vast Scale, People Must Learn The Art Of Civil Or Voluntary Obedience.

We Shall Dig Our Own Grave If We Do Not Purge Ourselves Of This Curse Of Untouchability.

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

If One Person Gains Spiritually, The Whole World Gains

The Principle Of Ahimsa Is Hurt By Every Evil Thought, By Undue Haste, By Lying, By Hatred, By Wishing Ill To Anybody.

Often Does Good Come Out Of Evil. But That Is God's, Not Man's Plan.

My Trust Is Solely In God. And I Trust Men Only Because I Trust God. If I Had No God To Rely Upon, I Should Be Like Timon, A Hater Of My Species.

A Customer Is The Most Important Visitor On Our Premises, He Is Not Dependent On Us. We Are Dependent On Him.

It Is Difficult For Me To Regard Anyone Who Obeys No Moral Principle In His Conduct To Be A Religious Man.

Even The Dog Is Described By The Poet To Have Received Justice Under Ramarajya.

The Turning Of The Charkha In A Lifeless Way Will Be Like The Turning Of The Beads Of The Rosary With A Wandering Mind Turned Away From God.

We Find The General Work Of Mankind Is Being Carried On From Day To Day By The Mass Of People Acting In Harmony As If By Instinct. If They Were Instinctively Violent, The World Would End In No Time.

Bravery Is Not Man's Monopoly.

Nonviolence Is The Law Of The Human Race And Is Infinitely Greater Than, And Superior To, Brute Force.

It Is The Duty Of A Non-co-operator To Preach Disaffection Towards The Existing Order Of Things. Non-co-operators Are But Giving Disciplined Expression To A Nation's Outraged Feelings.

Morality Is The Basis Of Things And Truth Is The Substance Of All Morality.

Honesty Is Incompatible With Amassing A Large Fortune.

Non-cooperation Is An Attempt To Awaken The Masses, To A Sense Of Their Dignity And Power. This Can Only Be Done By Enabling Them To Realise That They Need Not Fear Brute Force, If They But Know The Soul Within.

To Double Your Successes, You Might Have To Double Your Failure Rate.

I Saw That Bad Handwriting Should Be Regarded As A Sign Of An Imperfect Education.

Drink Is Not A Fashion In India, As It Is In The West.

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.

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

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.

I Do Not Want A Kingdom, Or Heaven; What I Want Is To Remove The Trouble Of The Oppressed, The Poor, And The Needy.

All My Experiments In Ahimsa Have Taught Me That Nonviolence In Practice Means Common Labour With The Body.

Nonviolent Defence Presupposes Recklessness About One's Life And Property.

Who Is There In The World Who Can Insult The God In The Image?

Compulsory Obedience To A Master Is A State Of Slavery, Willing Obedience To One's Father Is The Glory Of Son Ship.

Cow Preservation Is An Article Of Faith In Hinduism.

Breach Of Promise Is A Base Surrender Of Truth.

Keeping Promises

Education In The Understanding Of Citizenship Is A Short-term Affair If We Are Honest And Earnest.

For Me Every Ruler Is Alien That Defies Public Opinion.

What Is Equality Of Rights Between A Giant And A Dwarf?

The True Democrat Is He Who With Purely Nonviolent Means Defends His Liberty And, Therefore, His Country's And Ultimately That Of The Whole Of Mankind.

The Very Word Islam Means Peace, Which Is Nonviolence.

A Pacifism Which Can See The Cruelties Only Of Occasional Military Warfare And Is Blind To The Continuous Cruelties Of Our Social System Is Worthless.

It Was Not Through Democratic Methods That Britain Bagged India.

God Alone Is Truth, Everything Else Is Transitory And Illusory.

Continue To Grow And Evolve.

Non-violence Is Not A Garment To Be Put On And Off At Will. Its Seat Is In The Heart, And It Must Be An Inseparable Part Of Our Being.

Man Alone Is Made In The Image Of God.

When You Are Right,you Have No Need To Be Angry. When You Are Wrong, You Have No Right To Be Angry.

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

It Is The Absolute Right Of India To Misgovern Herself.

If The People Resolve And Carry Out This Programme Of Boycott And Swadeshi, They Would Not Have To Wait For Swaraj Even For A Year.

Performance Of One's Duties Should Be Independent Of Public Opinion.

I Would Not Sell The Vital Interests Of The Untouchables For The Sake Of Winning The Freedom Of India.

Since One Satan Is One Too Many For Me, I Would Not Multiply Him.

Is Not Labour, Like Learning, Its Own Reward?

To Believe That What Has Not Occurred In History Will Not Occur At All, Is To Argue Disbelief In The Dignity Of Man.

Love Is The Subtlest Force In The World.

If You Want Something Done, Ask. If You Want Something Done Quickly, Ask, And Then Begin Counting Down From Ten With No Explanation.

Truth Triumphs, Even If There Be No Public Support.

A Labourer Cannot Sit At The Table And Write, But A Man Who Has Worked At The Table All His Life Can Certainly Take To Physical Labour.

Cent Percent Swadeshi Gives Sufficient Scope For The Most Insatiable Ambition For Service And A Satisfaction Of Every Kind Of Talent.

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.

Cow-protection Can Only Be Secured By Cultivating Universal Friendliness, I.e. Ahimsa.

It Was Our Love Of Foreign Cloth That Ousted The Wheel From Its Position Of Dignity.

Truth Is God, And Truth Overrides All Our Plans.

Always Aim At Complete Harmony Of Thought And Word And Deed. Always Aim At Purifying Your Thoughts And Everything Will Be Well.

My Nonviolence Is Made Of Stern Stuff. It Is Firmer Than The Firmest Metal Known To Scientists.

Culture Of The Mind Must Be Subservient To The Heart.

My Religion Teaches Me That A Promise Once Made Or A Vow Once Taken For A Worthy Object May Not Be Broken.

Whatever One Does Cheerfully Is Good For Health.

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.

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

You Assist An Administration Most Effectively By Obeying Its Orders And Decrees. An Evil Administration Never Deserves Such Allegiance. Allegiance To It Means Partaking Of The Evil. A Good Man Will Therefore Resist An Evil System Or Administration With His Whole Soul.

Temples Are Like Spiritual Hospitals, And The Sinful, Who Are Spiritually Diseased, Have The First Right To Be Ministered To By Them.

My Conception Of Dominion Status Implies Present Ability To Severe The British Connection If I Wish To.

Rights That Do Not Flow From Duty Well Performed Are Not Worth Having.

Satyagraha Is Search For Truth, And God Is Truth.

Search For Truth

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

Every Living Faith Must Have Within Itself The Power Of Rejuvenation If It Is To Live

I Do Not Like The Word Tolerance, But Could Not Think Of A Better One. Tolerance Implies A Gratuitous Assumption Of The Inferiority Of Other Faiths To One

The Sacrifice Which Causes Sorrow To The Doer Of The Sacrifice Is No Sacrifice. Real Sacrifice Lightens The Mind Of The Doer And Gives Him A Sense Of Peace And Joy. The Buddha Gave Up The Pleasures Of Life Because They Had Become Painful To Him.

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.

My Patriotism Is Not An Exclusive Thing. It Is All Embracing. The Conception Of My Patriotism Is Nothing If It Is Not Always, In Every Case, Without Exception, Consistent With The Broadest Good Of Humanity At Large.

I Believe In The Essential Unity Of All That Lives. Therefore, I Believe That If One Person Gains Spiritually, The Whole World Gains, And That If One Person Falls, The Whole World Falls To That Extent.

Man Should Forget His Anger Before He Lies Down To Sleep.

Non-co-operation Enables Us To Show That In Everything That Matters We Can Be Independent Of The Government.

You Can Judge A Society By The Way It Treats It's Animals

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

The Charkha Is Intended To Realize The Essential And Living Oneness Of Interest Among India's Myriads.

I Would Far Rather That Hinduism Died Than That Untouchability Lived.

When Every Hope Is Gone, 'when Helpers Fail And Comforts Flee,' I Find That Help Arrives Somehow, From I Know Not Where. Supplication, Worship, Prayer Are No Superstition; They Are Acts More Real Than The Acts Of Eating, Drinking, Sitting Or Walking. It Is No Exaggeration To Say That They Alone Are Real, All Else Is Unreal.

Destruction Is Not The Law Of Humans. Man Lives Freely Only By His Readiness To Die, If Need Be, At The Hands Of His Brother, Never By Killing Him. Every Murder Or Other Injury, No Matter For What Cause, Committed Or Inflicted On Another Is A Crime Against Humanity.

My Nonviolence Does Recognize Different Species Of Violence, Defensive And Offensive.

It Was Through The Hindu Religion That I Learnt To Respect Christianity And Islam.

I Offer You Peace. I Offer You Love. I Offer You Friendship. I See Your Beauty. I Hear Your Need. I Feel Your Feelings.

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

Whilst The Bihar Calamity Damages The Body, The Calamity Brought About By Untouchability Corrodes The Very Soul.

The Beauty Of Poetry Is That The Creation Transcends The Poet.

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

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

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