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You Will Find That God Is Always By The Side Of The Fearless.

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You Will Find That God Is Always By The Side Of The Fearless.

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All My Actions Have Their Rise In My Inalienable Love Of Mankind.

God Will Rule The Lives Of All Those Who Will Surrender Themselves Without Reservation To Him.

There Is An Orderliness In The Universe, There Is An Unalterable Law Governing Everything And Every Being That Exists Or Lives. It Is No Blind Law; For No Blind Law Can Govern The Conduct Of Living Beings.

A Democrat Must Be Utterly Selfless. He Must Think And Dream Not In Terms Of Self Or Of Party, But Only Of Democracy.

The Cry For Peace Will Be A Cry In The Wilderness, So Long As The Spirit Of Nonviolence Does Not Dominate Millions Of Men And Women.

Truth Is Not Truth Merely Because It Is Ancient. Nor Is Truth Necessarily To Be Regarded With Suspicion Because It Is Ancient.

In A Self-respecting India, Is Not Every Woman's Virtue As Much Every Man's Concern As His Own Sister's?

Our Struggle Consists In Showing That Our Nonviolence Is Neither A Cloak To Hide Our Violence Or Hatred, Nor A Preparation For Violence In The Near Or Distant Future.

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

The Golden Rule Is To Act Fearlessly Upon What One Believes To Be Right.

Do Not Believe In Telling People Of One's Faith, Especially With A View To Conversion. Faith Must Be Lived, And When It Is, It Becomes Self-propagating

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

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

Many People, Especially Ignorant People, Want To Punish You For Speaking The Truth, For Being Correct, For Being You. Never Apologize For Being Correct, Or For Being Years Ahead Of Your Time. If You’re Right And You Know It, Speak Your Mind. Speak Your Mind. Even If You Are A Minority Of One, The Truth Is Still The Truth.

Speak Your Mind

Nothing Can So Quickly Put The Masses On Their Legs As The Spinning Wheel And All It Means.

Humankind Has To Get Out Of Violence Only Through Non-violence. Hatred Can Be Overcome Only By Love. Counter - Hatred Only Increases The Surface As Well As The Depth Of Hatred.

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

It Is Also A Warning. It Is A Warning That, If Nobody Reads The Writing On The Wall, Man Will Be Reduced To The State Of The Beast, Whom He Is Shaming By His Manners.

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.

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.

Through Realization Of Freedom Of India, I Hope To Realize And Carry On The Mission Of Brotherhood Of Man.

Brotherhood Of Man

I Believe In The Absolute Oneness Of God And, Therefore, Also Of Humanity. I Have Always Believed God To Be Without Form. What I Did Hear Was Like A Voice From Afar, And Yet Quite Near.

Khadi Has Been Conceived As The Foundation And The Image Of Ahimsa. A Real Khadi-wearer Will Not Utter An Untruth. A Real Khadi-wearer Will Harbour No Violence, No Deceit, No Impurity.

Wildlife Is Decreasing In The Jungles, But It Is Increasing In The Towns.

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.

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

I Have No Other Wish In This World But To Find Light And Joy And Peace Through Hinduism.

Imperfect Men Have No Right To Judge Other Imperfect Men.

The World Cannot Be Successfully Fooled For All Time.

Take Care Of This Moment.

The Only Devils In The World Are Those Running Around In Our Own Hearts - That Is Where The Battle Should Be Fought.

A Nonviolent Man Cannot Desire Embarrassment.

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

Nonviolence Is A Universal Principle And Its Operation Is Not Limited By A Hostile Environment.

Study Men Laying Down Their Lives Without Hurting Anyone Else In The Cause Of Their Country's Freedom.

No Two Leaves Were Alike, And Yet There Is No Antagonism Between Them Or Between The Branches On Which They Grow.

There Is Not A Moment When I Do Not Feel The Presence Of A Witness Whose Eye Misses Nothing And With Whom I Strive To Keep In Tune.

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

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

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.

Learn As If You Will Live Forever.

The Allah Of Islam Is The Same As The God Of Christians And The Ishwar Of Hindus.

Be The Change You Seek.

Violence Begins With The Fork.

Satan's Snares Are Mostly Subtly Laid And Are The Most Tempting When The Dividing Line Between Right And Wrong Is So Thin As To Be Imperceptible.

Democracy Can Only Represent The Average If Not Less Than The Average.

Nonviolence Is The Law Of Our Species As Violence Is The Law Of The Brute.

Man And His Deed Are Two Distinct Things. Whereas A Good Deed Should Call Forth Approbation And A Wicked Deed Dis-approbation, The Doer Of The Deed, Whether Good Or Wicked Always Deserves Respect Or Pity As The Case May Be. Hate The Sin And Not The Sinner Is A Precept Which Though Easy Enough To Understand Is Rarely Practised, And That Is Why The Poison Of Hatred Spreads In The World.

Some Form Of Common Worship And A Common Place Of Worship Appear To Be A Human Necessity.

When Two Nations Are Fighting, The Duty Of A Votary Of Ahimsa Is To Stop The War.

Truth Is One, Paths Are Many.

The Sum Total Of Karma Is God.

People Engaged In A War Do Not Lose Temper Over Matters Which Affect The Fortunes Of War.

Animal Experimentation Is The Blackest Of All The Black Crimes That A Man Is At Present Committing... We Should Be Able To Refuse To Live If The Price Of Living Be The Torture Of Sentient Beings... I Abhor [animal] Experimentation With My Whole Soul. All The Scientific Discoveries Stained With Innocent Blood I Count As Of No Consequence... The Greatness Of A Nation And Its Moral Progress Can Be Judged By The Way Its Animals Are Treated.

The Gita Has Become For Me The Key To The Scriptures Of The World.

A Slave-holder Cannot Hold A Slave Without Putting Himself Or His Deputy In The Cage For Holding The Slave.

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

An Opponent Is Entitled To The Same Regard For His Principles As We Would Expect Others To Have For Ours. Non-violence Demands That We Should See Every Opportunity To Win Over Opponents.

I Do Not Believe That The Spiritual Law Works On A Field Of Its Own. On The Contrary, It Expresses Itself Only Through The Ordinary Activities Of Life. It Thus Affects The Economic, The Social And The Political Fields.

The Message Of The Gita Is To Be Found In The Second Chapter Of The Gita Where Lord Krishna Speaks Of The Balanced State Of Mind, Of Mental Equipoise.

Love Has More Force Than A Besieging Army.

Is It Not Possible For Us All To Realize That The Masses Will Never Mount To Freedom Through Murder?

The Cause Of The Spinning Wheel Is Too Great And Too Good To Have To Rest On Mere Hero-worship.

Whenever You Take A Step Forward, You Are Bound To Disturb Something. You Disturb The Air As You Go Forward, You Disturb The Dust, The Ground. You Trample Upon Things. When A Whole Society Moves Forward, This Trampling Is On A Much Bigger Scale; And Each Thing That You Disturb, Each Vested Interest Which You Want To Remove, Stands As An Obstacle.

Where There Is No Strength Of Mind There Can Be No Strength Of Soul.

I Would Rather Drown Myself In The Waters Of The Sabarmati Than Harbour Hate Or Animosity In My Heart.

Corruption And Hypocrisy Ought Not To Be Inevitable Products Of Democracy, As They Undoubtedly Are Today.

Fearlessness Is The First Requisite Of Spirituality. Cowards Can Never Be Moral.

What Is Truth? A Difficult Question; But I Have Solved It For Myself By Saying That It Is What The 'voice Within' Tells You.

Difficult Questions

To Observe Morality Is To Attain Mastery Over Our Mind And Our Passions.

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.

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

Machinery Is The Chief Symbol Of Modern Civilization; It Represents A Great Sin.

They Cannot Take Away Our Self-respect If We Do Not Give It To Them.

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

Ahimsa Is Nothing If Not A Well-balanced, Exquisite Consideration For One's Neighbour, And An Idle Man Is Wanting In That Elementary Consideration.

Faith Is Not Something To Grasp, It Is A State To Grow Into.

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.

Urbanization In India Is A Slow But Sure Death For Her Villages And Villagers.

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

Prayer Is Not An Old Woman's Idle Amusement. Properly Understood And Applied, It Is The Most Potent Instrument Of Action. . . . . . . Prayer Is The First And The Last Lesson In Learning The Noble And Brave Art Of Sacrificing Self In The Various Walks Of Life Culminating In The Defence Of One's Nation's Liberty And Honour.

Obedience To The Law Of Bread Labour Will Bring About A Silent Revolution In The Structure Of Society.

I Know Of No Religion Or Sect That Has Done Or Is Doing Without A House Of God, Variously Described As A Temple, A Mosque, A Church, A Synagogue Or Agiary.

But I Never Again Went Through This Street. There Would Be Other Men Coming In This Man's Place And, Ignorant Of The Incident, They Would Behave Likewise. Why Should I Unnecessarily Court Another Kick? I Therefore Selected A Different Walk.

What Is Faith If It Is Not Translated Into Action?

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

Ours Has Not Been Unadulterated Nonviolence In Thought, Word And Deed.

Jesus Was The Most Active Resister Known To History. His Was Nonviolence Par Excellence.

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

Khadi Mentality Means Decentralization Of The Production And Distribution Of The Necessaries Of Life.

Decentralization

My Faith Is Brightest In The Midst Of Impenetrable Darkness.

If We Had Attained The Full Vision Of Truth, We Would No Longer Be Seekers, But Become One With God, For Truth Is God.

The Human Voice Can Never Reach The Distance That Is Covered By The Still Small Voice Of Conscience.

The Propagation Of Truth And Nonviolence Can Be Done Less By Books Than By Actually Living On Those Principles.

I Do Not Want To Foresee The Future. I Am Concerned With Taking Care Of The Present. God Has Given Me No Control Over The Moment Following.

Love Is The Subtlest Force In The World.

We Do Not Know The Laws Of God, Nor Their Working.

God Took And Needed No Personal Service. He Served His Creatures Without Demanding Any Service For Himself In Return.

An Unjust Law In Itself Is An Act Of Violence.

There Is A Power Now Slumbering Within Us, Which Is Awakened Would Do To Evil What Light Does To Darkness.

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.

Man's Nature Is Not Essentially Evil. Brute Nature Has Been Know To Yield To The Influence Of Love. You Must Never Despair Of Human Nature.

A True And Nonviolent Combination Of Labour Would Act Like A Magnet Attracting To It All The Needed Capital.

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

I Have Shut My Mind Against Nothing And I Am A Friend Of Great Britain. I Always Have Been. I Have No Axe To Grind.

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.

I Hold Too That Whatever May Be True Of Other Countries, A Bloody Revolution Will Not Succeed In India.

The Inner Voice Is Something Which Cannot Be Described In Words. But Sometimes We Have A Positive Feeling That Something In Us Prompts Us To Do A Certain Thing. The Time When I Learnt To Recognise This Voice Was, I May Say, The Time When I Started Praying Regularly.

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 Have Felt That The Gita Teaches Us That What Cannot Be Followed In Day-to-day Practice Cannot Be Called Religion.

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

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.

Adaptability Is Not Imitation. It Means Power Of Resistance And Assimilation.

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

Life Becomes Livable Only To The Extent That Death Is Treated As A Friend, Never As An Enemy.

Every Formula Of Every Religion Has In This Age Of Reason, To Submit To The Acid Test Of Reason And Universal Assent.

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

I Will Suffer The Agony If That Is To Be My Lot.

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

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

Labour Has Its Unique Place In A Cultured Human Family.

It Will Be Hard To Find A Parallel In History In Which Unarmed People Have Represented The Urge For Freedom, Turning Their Armlessness Into The Central Means For Deliverance.

Faith Is The Function Of The Heart.

I Look Only To The Good Qualities Of Men. Not Being Faultless Myself, I Won't Presume To Probe Into The Faults Of Others.

God Is The Vital Force Or Spirit Which Is All-pervading, All-embracing And, Therefore, Beyond Human Ken.

An India Prostrate At The Feet Of Europe Can Give No Hope To Humanity.

It Is The Absolute Right Of India To Misgovern Herself.

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

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

We May Stumble And Fall But Shall Rise Again; It Should Be Enough If We Did Not Run Away From The Battle.

In The East, As In The West, Newspapers Are Fast Becoming People's Bible, Koran, Zend-avesta And Gita All Rolled Into One.

Prayer Is The Only Means Of Bringing About Orderliness And Peace And Repose In Our Daily Acts.

The Weak Can Never Forgive.

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

Mass Destruction

Truth Is Self-evident, Nonviolence Is Its Maturest Fruit. It Is Contained In Truth, But Is Not Self-evident.

No One Should Dogmatize About The Capacity Of Human Nature For Degradation Or Exaltation.

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

When I See A Cow, It Is Not An Animal To Eat, It Is A Poem Of Pity For Me And I Worship It And I Shall Defend Its Worship Against The Whole World.

Even As A Tree Has A Single Trunk, But Many Branches And Leaves, There Is One Religion But Any Number Of Faiths.

Cow-slaughter And Man-slaughter Are In My Opinion Two Sides Of The Same Coin.

Can A General Fight On The Strength Of Soldiers, Who, He Knows, Have No Faith In Him?

A Mind Not Set On God Is Given To Wandering And Lacks The Quality Of A Temple Of Worship.

In The Attitude Of Silence The Soul Finds The Path In A Clearer Light, And What Is Elusive And Deceptive Resolves Itself Into Crystal Clearness. Our Life Is A Long And Arduous Quest After Truth.

It Is My Unmistakable Belief That Not A Blade Of Grass Moves But By The Divine Will.

God Has No Religion.

India's Freedom Must Revolutionize The World's Outlook Upon Peace And War.

Nonviolence Means An Ocean Of Compassion. It Means Shedding From Us Every Trace Of Ill Will For Others. It Does Not Mean Abjectness Or Timidity, Or Fleeing In Fear. It Means, On The Contrary, Firmness Of Mind And Courage, A Resolute Spirit.

True Religion Being The Greatest Thing In Life And In The World, Has Been Exploited The Most.

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

We Have To Make Truth And Non-violence Not Matters For Mere Individual Practice But For Practice By Groups And Communities And Nations. That At Any Rate Is My Dream. I Shall Live And Die In Trying To Realize It. My Faith Helps Me To Discover New Truths Every Day.

There Is Nothing That Wastes The Body Like Worry, And One Who Has Any Faith In God Should Be Ashamed To Worry About Anything Whatsoever.

The Attainment Of National Independence Is To Me A Search For Truth.

I Cannot Teach You Violence, As I Do Not Myself Believe In It. I Can Only Teach You Not To Bow Your Heads Before Any One Even At The Cost Of Your Life.

Fear Has Its Use, But Cowardice Has None. I May Not Put My Finger Into The Jaws Of A Snake, But The Very Sight Of The Snake Need Not Strike Terror Into Me.

The Life Of Millions Is My Politics, From Which I Dare Not Free Myself Without Denying My Life-work And God.

More Caution And Perhaps More Restraint Are Necessary In Breaking A Fast Than In Keeping It.

God's Grace And Revelation Are The Monopoly Of No Race Or Nation.

Untouchability Is An Error Of Long Standing.

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

The Art Of Dying Bravely And With Honour Does Not Need Any Special Training, Save A Living Faith In God.

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

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

Positive Thinking

Positive Attitude

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

If I Could Wake All Of The Women Of Asia, India Could Be Won In A Day.

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

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.

Faith Becomes Lame, When It Ventures Into Matters Pertaining To Reason!

Love Is No Love Which Asks For A Return.

It Is Necessary First To Purify The Drunken And Dissolute Worshippers In Charge Of Some Of These Temples.

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

It Is Swaraj When We Learn To Rule Ourselves.

Self Assessment

I Don't Reject Christ. I Love Christ. It's Just That So Many Of You Christians Are So Unlike Christ.

Our Children Should Not Be So Taught As To Despise Labour.

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.

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.

One Hour Spent In Spinning Should Be An Hour Of Self-development For The Spinner.

I Call The Lancashire Trade Immoral, Because It Was Raised And Is Sustained On The Ruin Of Millions Of India's Peasants.

At The Individual Level Swaraj Is Vitally Connected With The Capacity For Dispassionate Self-assessment , Ceaseless Self Purification And Growing Self-reliance.... It Is Swaraj When We Learn To Rule Ourselves

The Attainment Of Freedom, Whether For A Person, A Nation Or A World, Must Be In Exact Proportion To The Attainment Of Nonviolence For Each

Satisfaction Lies In The Effort, Not In The Attainment, Full Effort Is Full Victory.

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.

My Idea Of Village Swaraj Is That Is A Complete Republic, Independent Of Its Neighbors For Its Own Vital Wants, And Yet Interdependent For Many Others Which Dependence Is A Necessity.

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

The Law And The Lawgiver Are One.

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

Conquer The Heart Of The Enemy With Truth And Love, Not By Violence.

Democracy And Dependence On The Military And Police Are Incompatible.

Human Language Can But Imperfectly Describe God's Ways.

A Seeker After Truth, A Follower Of The Law Of Love, Cannot Hold Anything Against Tomorrow.

There Is No God Higher Than Truth.

The Purpose Of Life Is Undoubtedly To Know Oneself. We Cannot Do It Unless We Learn To Identify Ourselves With All That Lives. The Sum-total Of That Life Is God.

Hinduism Does Not Rest On The Authority Of One Book Or One Prophet, Nor Does It Posses A Common Creed Like The Kalma.

A Nation's Greatness Is Measured By How It Treats Its Weakest Members.

The Spinning Wheel Is The Auspicious Symbol Of Sharir Yajna, Body Labour.

We Have No Evidence Whatsoever That The Soul Perishes With The Body.

The Early Mussalmans Accepted Islam Not Because They Knew It To Be Revealed But Because It Appealed To Their Virgin Reason.

Without A Belief In My Programme And Without An Acceptance Of My Condition, You Will Ruin Me, Ruin Yourselves And Ruin The Cause.

I Want To Realize Brotherhood Or Identity Not Merely With The Beings Called Human, But I Want To Realize Identity With All Life, Even With Such Things As Crawl Upon Earth.

It Is Not A Mistake To Commit A Mistake, For No One Commits A Mistake Knowing It To Be One. But It Is A Mistake Not To Correct The Mistake After Knowing It To Be One. If You Are Afraid Of Committing A Mistake, You Are Afraid Of Doing Anything At All. You Will Correct Your Mistakes Whenever You Find Them.

If All Christians Acted Like Christ, The Whole World Would Be Christian.

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