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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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

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For Us, Patriotism Is The Same As The Love Of Humanity.

A Man Who Behaves Like A Beast Is Worse Than The Beast.

Man Cannot Breathe With Borrowed Lungs.

Patience Means Self-suffering.

I Recognise No God Except The God That Is To Be Found In The Hearts Of The Dumb Millions.

An Institution That Suffers From A Plethora Of Leaders Is Surely In A Bad Way.

As Long As You Are Trying Your Very Best, There Can Be No Question Of Failure.

Destruction Of The Churches And The Like Is Not The Way To Swaraj As Defined By The Congress.

Let Our Lives Be Open Books For All To Study.

Gentleness, Self-sacrifice And Generosity Are The Exclusive Possession Of No One Race Or Religion.

Once One Assumes An Attitude Of Intolerance, There Is No Knowing Where It Will Take One. Intolerance, Someone Has Said, Is Violence To The Intellect And Hatred Is Violence To The Heart.

Harshness Is Conquered By Gentleness, Hatred By Love, Lethargy By Zeal And Darkness By Light.

I Know, To Banish Anger Altogether From One's Breast Is A Difficult Task. It Cannot Be Achieved Through Pure Personal Effort. It Can Be Done Only By God's Grace.

There Can Be No Friendship Between Cowards, Or Cowards And Brave Men.

Exercise Of Faith Will Be The Safest Where There Is A Clear Determination Summarily To Reject All That Is Contrary To Truth And Love.

A Democrat Should Not Rely Upon The Force Of The Arms His State Could Flaunt In The Face Of The World, But On The Moral Force His State Could Put At The Disposal Of The World.

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

Legal Imposition Avoids The Necessity Of Honour Or Good Faith.

Your Future Depends On What You Do Today.

Heroes Are Made In The Hour Of Defeat

No Empire Intoxicated With The Red Wine Of Power And The Plunder Of Weaker Races Has Yet Lived Long In This World.

Civil Disobedience Presupposes Willing Obedience Of Our Self-imposed Rules, And Without It Civil Disobedience Would Be A Cruel Joke.

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

Moral Development

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.

To Practice Nonviolence In Mundane Matters Is To Know Its True Value.

I Condemn, For All Climes And For All Times, Secret Murders And Unfair Methods Even For A Fair Cause.

It Does Not Require Money To Be Neat, Clean And Dignified.

If I Were Asked To Define The Hindu Creed, I Should Simply Say: Search After Truth Through Non-violent Means. Hinduism Is A Relentless Pursuit After Truth.

The Unparalleled Extravagance Of English Rule Has Demented The Rajas And The Maharajas Who, Unmindful Of Consequences, Ape It And Grind Their Subjects To Dust.

I Can No More Preach Nonviolence To A Cowardly Man Than I Can Tempt A Blind Man To Enjoy Healthy Scenes.

The Villagers Want Bread-not Butter-and Disciplined Work, Some Work That Will Supplement Their Agricultural Avocations Which Do Not Go On For All The 12 Months.

Why Should Men Arrogate To Themselves The Right To Regulate Female Purity?

Truth (satya) Is Positive, Nonviolence Is Negative.

There Is An Indefinable Mysterious Power That Pervades Everything.

Swaraj Will Favour Hinduism No More Than Islam, Nor Islam More Than Hinduism.

A 'no' Uttered From The Deepest Conviction Is Better Than A 'yes' Merely Uttered To Please, Or Worse, To Avoid Trouble.

Power Is Of Two Kinds. One Is Obtained By The Fear Of Punishment And The Other By Acts Of Love. Power Based On Love Is A Thousand Times More Effective And Permanent Then The One Derived From Fear Of Punishment.

I Like Your Christ. I Do Not Like Your Christians. Your Christians Are So Unlike Your Christ.

Nonviolence Or Soul Force Does Not Need Physical Aids For Its Propagation Of Effect.

Intellect Takes Us Along In The Battle Of Life To A Certain Limit, But At The Crucial Moment It Fails Us. Faith Transcends Reason. It Is When The Horizon Is The Darkest And Human Reason Is Beaten Down To The Ground That Faith Shines Brightest And Comes To Our Rescue.

The Greatest Help You Can Give Me Is To Banish Fear From Your Hearts.

Disorder And Violence Are, In Fact, Things That Might Check The Pace Of India's Progress.

My Faith Runs So Very Much Faster Than My Reason That I Can Challenge The Whole World And Say, 'god Is, Was And Ever Shall Be'.

A Worker's Capital Is Inexhaustible, Incapable Of Being Stolen, And Bound To Pay Him A Generous Dividend All The Time.

Do Not Worry About What Others Are Doing! Each Of Us Should Turn The Searchlight Inward And Purify His Or Her Own Heart As Much As Possible.

Civil Disobedience Does Not Admit Of Any Violence Or Countenancing Of Violence Directly Or Indirectly.

Civil Disobedience

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

Every Person, As Every Institution, And, Above All, Every Religion Is To Be Judged Not By The Amount Of Atrocities Or The Wrong Committed But By The Right Conduct.

A Successful Search For Truth Means Complete Deliverance From The Dual Throng, Such As Of Love And Hate, Happiness And Misery.

A Successful Bloody Revolution Can Only Mean Further Misery For The Masses.

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

It Is Impossible For Me To Reconcile Myself To The Idea Of Conversion After The Style That Goes On In India And Elsewhere Today. It Is An Error Which Is Perhaps The Greatest Impediment To The World's Progress Toward Peace. ... Why Should A Christian Want To Convert A Hindu To Christianity? Why Should He Not Be Satisfied If The Hindu Is A Good Or Godly Man?

Fear Of Disease Killed More Men Than Disease Itself.

Truth Is My God. Non-violence Is The Means Of Realizing Him.

A Faith Gained In Strength Only When People Were Willing To Lay Down Their Lives For It.

"be The Change You Want To See In The World"...and, If You Can't Be That Change, Then Either Get Out Of The Way Of The Person Who Wants To Be That Change Or Support The Individual With Your Financial Resources.

Be Congruent, Be Authentic, Be Your True Self.

Aggressive Civil Disobedience Should Be Confined To A Vindication Of The Right Of Free Speech And Free Association.

Jesus Never Uttered A Loftier Or A Grander Truth Than When He Said That Wisdom Cometh Out Of The Mouths Of Babes.

I Have Described Swaraj As Ramarajya And Ramarajya Is An Impossibility Unless We Have Thousands Of Sitas.

A Certain Degree Of Physical Harmony And Comfort Is Necessary, But Above A Certain Level It Becomes A Hindrance Instead Of A Help. Therefore The Ideal Of Creating An Unlimited Number Of Wants And Satisfying Them Seems To Be A Delusion And A Snare.

What We Are Doing To The Forests Of The World Is But A Mirror Reflection Of What We Are Doing To Ourselves And To One Another.

What, However, Left A Deep Impression On Me Was The Reading Of The Ramayana Before My Father. During Part Of His Illness My Father Was In Porbandar. There Every Evening He Used To Listen To The Ramayana.

It Amazes Me To Find An Intelligent Person Who Fights Against Something Which He Does Not At All Believe Exists.

A Nonviolent Struggle Necessarily Involves Construction On A Small Scale. It Cannot Therefore Lead To Tamas Or Darkness Or Inertia.

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

A Votary Of Ahimsa Cannot Subscribe To The Utilitarian Formula (of The Greatest Good Of The Greatest Number). He Will Strive For The Greatest Good Of All And Die In The Attempt To Realize That Ideal.

Everything That We Do Is Insignificant...and...it Is Very Important That We Do It!

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.

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

I Would Like To Say That That Even The Teachings Of The Koran Cannot Be Exempted From Criticism.

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

The Vedas Are As Indefinable As God And Hinduism.

Ethically They Had Arrived At The Conclusion That Man's Supremacy Over Lower Animals Meant Not That The Former Should Prey Upon The Latter, But That The Higher Should Protect The Lower, And That There Should Be Mutual Aid Between The Two As Between Man And Man. They Had Also Brought Out The Truth That Man Eats Not For Enjoyment But To Live.

Forgiveness Is Choosing To Love.

Choosing To Love

Manliness Consists Not In Bluff, Bravado Or Loneliness. It Consists In Daring To Do The Right Thing And Facing Consequences Whether It Is In Matters Social, Political Or Other. It Consists In Deeds Not Words.

True Swadeshi Is That Alone In Which All The Processes Through Which Cotton Has To Pass Are Carried Out In The Same Village Or Town.

Let India Become Alive By Self-purification, That Is Self-restraint And Self-denial, And She Will Be A Boon To Herself And Mankind.

We Must Widen The Circle Of Our Love Till It Embraces The Whole Village; The Village In Its Turn Must Take Into Its Fold The District, The District The Province, And So On Until The Scope Of Our Love Becomes Co-terminous With The World.

I Am Not Conscious Of A Single Experience Throughout My Three Months' Stay In England And Europe That Made Me Feel That After All East Is East And West Is West. On The Contrary, I Have Been Convinced More Than Ever That Human Nature Is Much The Same, No Matter Under What Clime It Flourishes, And That If You Approached People With Trust And Affection You Would Have Ten-fold Trust And Thousand-fold Affection Returned To You.

All Truths, Not Merely Ideas, But Truthful Faces, Truthful Pictures Or Songs, Are Highly Beautiful.

Work Without Faith Is Like An Attempt To Reach The Bottom Of A Bottomless Pit.

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

Non-violence Should Never Be Used As A Shield For Cowardice. It Is A Weapon For The Brave.

If God Holds Me To Be A Pure Instrument For The Spread Of Nonviolence In Place Of The Awful Violence Now Ruling The Earth, He Will Give Me The Strength And Show Me The Way.

No Effort Is Complete Without Prayer - Without Definite Recognition That The Best Human Endeavor Is Of No Effect If It Has Not God's Blessing Behind It.

Half-a-dozen Or Twenty Cities Of India Alone Working Together Cannot Bring Swaraj.

Working Together

The Common Factor Of All Religions Is Nonviolence.

God's Laws Are Eternal And Unalterable And Not Separable From God Himself.

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

War Knows No Law Except That Of Might.

God Is Light, Not Darkness. God Is Love, Not Hate. God Is Truth, Not Untruth. God Alone Is Great.

One Cannot Reach Truth By Untruthfulness. Truthful Conduct Alone Can Reach Truth.

Mother Cow Expects From Us Nothing But Grass And Grain.

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

Untouchability Is An Error Of Long Standing.

Just As There Are Signs By Which You Can Recognize Violence With The Naked Eye, So Is The Spinning Wheel To Me A Decisive Sign Of Nonviolence.

Prayer Can Come In Only When Fasting Has Done Its Work. It Can Make Fasting Easy And Bearable.

No Nation Being Under Another Nation Can Accept Gifts, And Kick At The Responsibility Attached To Those Gifts, Imposed By The Conquering Nation.

A Man Of God Never Strives After Untruth And Therefore He Can Never Lose Hope.

Violence Becomes Imperative When An Attempt Is Made To Assert Rights Without Any Reference To Duties.

Sympathy Is What You Have For Someone After They Die, Pity You Have For Someone When They Don't Have A Date To The Biggest Dance Of The Year. Empathy Is What I Do To You When You Judge Me. Envy Is Having Pity On Yourself. Can You Discern The Rest For Yourself?

If We Are To Reach Real Peace In This World And If We Are To Carry On A Real War Against War, We Shall Have To Begin With Children; And If They Will Grow Up In Their Natural Innocence, We Won't Have To Struggle; We Won't Have To Pass Fruitless Idle Resolutions, But We Shall Go From Love To Love And Peace To Peace, Until At Last All The Corners Of The World Are Covered With That Peace And Love For Which Consciously Or Unconsciously The Whole World Is Hungering.

Prayer Is The Key Of The Morning And The Bolt Of The Evening.

I Would Rather Have India Reduced To A State Of Pauperism Than Have Thousands Of Drunkards In Our Midst.

No Man Has Ever Been Able To Describe God Fully. The Same Holds True Of Ahimsa.

Indeed, These Errors And My Prompt Confessions Have Made Me Surer, If Possible, Of My Insight Into The Implications Of Truth And Ahimsa.

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

Man Does Not Live By Bread Alone. Many Prefer Self-respect To Food.

A Satyagrahi Should Have A Living Faith In God.

Nothing Can Be More Hurtful To An Honourable Man Than That He Should Be Accused Of Bad Faith.

Non-cooperation With Tyrants Is A Duty.

The External Freedom Won't Be Given To Us But In The Exact Measure As We've Known At A Given Moment, To Developing Our Internal Freedom.

It Is Claimed For Satyagraha That It Is A Complete Substitute For Violence Or War.

Unless Nonviolence Of The Strong Is Really Developed Among Us, There Should Be No Thought Of Civil Disobedience For Swaraj, Whether Within The States Or In British India.

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.

To Die Without Killing Is The Badge Of A Satyagrahi.

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

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?

Unrestricted Individualism Is The Law Of The Beast Of The Jungle.

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.

The Platform Of Services Is As Big As The World. It Is Never Overcrowded.

Begin Your Day With Prayer, And Make It So Soulful That It May Remain With You Until The Evening.

Hatred Is Never Overcome By Hatred But By Love.

Untouchability Is A Terrible Reality.

I Am A Poor Mendicant. My Earthly Possessions Consist Of Six Spinning Wheels, Prison Dishes, A Can Of Goat's Milk, Six Homespun Loincloths And Towels And My Reputation, Which Cannot Be Worth Much.

For Hindus To Expect Islam, Christianity Or Zoroastrianism To Be Driven Out Of India Is As Idle A Dream As It Would Be For Mussalmans To Have Only Islam Of Their Imagination Rule The World.

For Every Minute That I Spin, There Is In Me The Consciousness That I Am Adding To The Nation's Wealth.

Like The Watch, The Heart Needs The Winding Of Purity, Or The Dweller Ceases To Speak.

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

The Only Virtue I Want To Claim Is Truth And Nonviolence.

I Could Not Be Leading A Religious Life Unless I Identified Myself With The Whole Of Mankind, And That I Could Not Do Unless I Took Part In Politics.

God Is The Hardest Taskmaster I Have Known On This Earth And He Tries You Through And Through.

If I Were Over Full Of Pity For The Cow, I Should Sacrifice My Life To Save Her But Not Take My Brother's.

He Who Runs To The Doctor, Vaidya, Or Hakim For Every Little Ailment, And Swallows All Kinds Of Vegetable And Mineral Drugs, Not Only Curtails His Life, But By Becoming The Slave Of His Body Instead Of Remaining Its Master, Loses Self-control, And Ceases To Be A Man.

The Fragrance Of Religious And Spiritual Life Is Much Finer And Subtler Than That Of The Rose.

I Call Myself A Labourer Because I Take Pride In Calling Myself A Spinner, Weaver, Farmer And Scavenger.

Abstract Truth Has No Value Unless It Incarnates In Human Beings Who Represent It, By Proving Their Readiness To Die For It.

No Agreement Between The British And Muslims Can Affect Me. An Agreement Between Hindus And Muslims Alone Will Affect Me.

The Day A Woman Can Walk Freely On The Roads At Night, That Day We Can Say That India Has Achieved Independence

Nonviolence Of The Strong Is Infinitely Braver Than Their Violence.

God Has No Religion.

What Is A Man If He Is Not A Thief Who Openly Charges As Much As He Can For The Goods He Sells?

We Become Godlike To The Extent We Realize Nonviolence, But We Can Never Become Wholly God.

My Religion Teaches Me That Whenever There Is Distress Which One Cannot Remove, One Must Fast And Pray.

Man Is Born Of Woman, He Is Flesh Of Her Flesh And Bone Of Her Bone.

Even A Little Of Dharma Saves One From Many A Pitfall.

No One Can Dominate A Population Of 80,000,000.

Today The Cities Dominate And Drain The Villages So That They Are Crumbling To Ruin.

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

The Word 'defeat' Is Not To Be Found In My Dictionary, And Everyone Who Is Selected As A Recruit In My Army May Be Certain That There Is No Defeat For A Satyagrahi.

A Prayerful Study And Experience Are Essential For A Correct Interpretation Of The Scriptures.

To Me Truth Is God And There Is No Way To Find Truth Except The Way Of Nonviolence.

The Duty Of Motherhood, Which The Vast Majority Of Woman Will Always Undertake, Requires The Qualities Which Men Need Not Possess.

The West Has Yet To Discover Anything So Hygienic As The Indian Toothstick.

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

Be The Change You're Trying To Create

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

Real Power Does Not Consist In The Ability To Inflict Capital Punishment Upon The Subjects, But In The Will And The Ability To Protect The Subjects Against The World.

For The Poor, The Economic Is Spiritual.

Non-cooperation Is Directed Not Against Men But Against Measures. It Is Not Directed Against The Governors, But Against The System They Administer. The Roots Of Non-cooperation Lies Not In Hatred But In Justice If Not In Love.

My Religion Forbids Me To Belittle Or Disregard Other Cultures, As It Insists, Under Pain Of Civil Suicide, Upon Imbibing And Living My Own.

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

...service Can Have No Meaning Unless One Takes Pleasure In It. When It Is Done For Show Or For Fear Of Public Opinion, It Stunts The Man And Crushes His Spirit. Service Which Is Rendered Without Joy Helps Neither The Servant Nor The Served.

We Do Not Need To Proselytise Either By Our Speech Or By Our Writing. We Can Only Do So Really With Our Lives. Let Our Lives Be Open Books For All To Study.

Let The Villages Of The Future Live In Our Imagination, So That We Might One Day Come To Live In Them!

Nonviolence Of The Strong Cannot Be A Mere Policy. It Must Be A Creed, Or A Passion, If 'creed' Is Objected To.

Men Aspiring To Be Free Can Hardly Think Of Enslaving Others.

The Hardest Metal Yields To Sufficient Heat. Even So Must The Hardest Heart Melt Before Sufficiency Of The Heat Of Non- Violence. And There Is No Limit To The Capacity Of Non-violence To Generate Heat.

It's Easy To Stand In The Crowd But It Takes Courage To Stand Alone

In A Strictly Scientific Sense God Is At The Bottom Of Both Good And Evil.

The Path Of Truth Is As Narrow As It Is Straight. Even So Is That Of Ahimsa.

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.

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

... The True Function Of A Lawyer Was To Unite Parties Driven Asunder.

God Alone Knows Absolute Truth.

The Very Essence Of Our Civilization Is That We Give A Paramount Place To Morality In All Our Affairs, Public Or Private.

Even A Single Lamp Dispels The Deepest Darkness.

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

Absolute Calm Is Not The Law Of Ocean. And It Is The Same With The Ocean Of Life.

Prayer Is No Mere Exercise Of Words Or Of The Ears, It Is No Mere Repetition Of Empty Formula.

Anything Which Is A Hindrance To The Fight Of The Soul Is A Delusion And A Snare, Even Like The Body Which Often Does Hinder You In The Path Of Salvation.

Newspapers Have Become More Important To The Average Man Than The Scriptures.

I Must Rebel Against The Idea That Millions Of Indians, Who Were Hindus, The Other Day, Changed Their Nationality On Adopting Islam As Their Religion.

I Simply Want To Tell The Story Of My Experiments With Truth...as My Life Consists Of Nothing But Those Experiments.

Just As A Prayer May Be Merely A Mechanical Intonation As Of A Bird, So May A Fast Be A Mere Mechanical Torture Of The Flesh.

I Hold That The World Is Sick Of Armed Rebellions.

Violence Is Bound Sooner Or Later To Exhaust Itself But Peace Cannot Issue Out Of Such Exhaustion.

Sooner Or Later

The Greater The Realization Of Truth And Ahimsa, The Greater The Illumination.

True Paurusha, True Bravery, Consists In Driving Out The Brute In Us.

Anger And Intolerance Are The Twin Enemies Of Correct Understanding.

I Claim To Know My Millions. All The Hours Of The Day I Am With Them. They Are My First Care And God That Is To Be Found In The Hearts Of The Dumb Millions.

We Must Treat Arrest As The Normal Condition Of The Life Of A Non-co-operator.

God Will Cease To Be God, If He Brought Into Being A Single Person With The Hall-mark Of Inferiority.

Bravery On The Battlefield Is Impossible For Us. Bravery Of The Soul Still Remains Open To Us.

I Object To Violence Because When It Appears To Do Good, The Good Is Only Temporary; The Evil It Does Is Permanent.

Apparently, I've Acted Like A Terrorist. But I'm Not A Terrorist.

A Poet Is One Who Can Call Forth The Good Latent In The Human Beast.

Love Requires That True Education Should Be Easily Accessible To All And Should Be Of Use To Every Villager In This Daily Life. The Emphasis Laid On The Principle Of Spending Every Minute Of One's Life Usefully Is The Best Education For Citizenship.

A Duty Religiously Performed Carries With It Several Other Important Consequences.

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