Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.
There are no good-byes, where ever you'll be, you'll be in my heart.
To double your successes, you might have to double your failure rate.
The commerce between India and Africa will be of ideas and services, not of the manufactured goods against raw materials after the fashion of the Western exploiters.
In this day of wonders no one will say that a thing or an idea is worthless because it is new. To say it is impossible because it is difficult is again not in consonance with the spirit of the age. Things undreamt of are daily being seen, the impossible is ever becoming possible.
That nonviolence which only an individual can use is not of much use in terms of society.
Indeed, these errors and my prompt confessions have made me surer, if possible, of my insight into the implications of truth and ahimsa.
A friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.
Total nonviolent non-cooperation has no place in popular Raj, whatever its level may be.
Nonviolence is a plant of slow growth, it grows imperceptibly but surely.
The panoplied warrior of truth and nonviolence is ever and incessantly active.
Nonviolence is the rock on which the whole structure of non-co-operation is built.
They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.
The ally we must cultivate is the part of our enemy which knows the truth.
I do not want my house to be rounded by walls and my windows to be closed to other cultures. I wish to become familiar with the culture of lands as much as possible but I will not permit them to affect me or shake me from my own status.
I know that in embarking on non-violence I shall be running what might be termed a mad risk. But the victories of truth have never been won without risks.
To know music is to transfer it to life.
I would risk violence a thousand times rather than risk the emasculation of the whole race.
First they ignore you, then they denounce you, and then they say that they knew what you were saying all the time.
Civil disobedience is the inherent right of a citizen.
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
I refuse to buy from anybody anything however nice or beautiful if it interferes with my growth or injures those whom Nature has made my first care.
Perfect nonviolence is difficult. It admits to no weakness.
Cow-slaughter can never be stopped by law.
Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence
If an enemy strikes your left cheek, offer him your right.
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
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.
By ahimsa we will be able to save the cow and also win the friendship of the English.
I would not flinch from sacrificing even a million lives for India's liberty.
The nation cannot be kept on the nonviolent path by violence.
I desire no honour if I have to conceal my religious beliefs in order to have it.
Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
Rights of true citizenship accrue only to those who serve the State to which they belong.
No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties.
The elephant needs a thousand times more food than the ant but that is not an indication of inequality.
Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.
Ahimsa means infinite love, which again means infinite capacity for suffering.
I believe that cunning is not only morally wrong but also politically expedient, and have therefore always discountenanced its use even from the practical standpoint.
The chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man.
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that, too, unconditional assistance.
A democratic organization has to dare to do the right at all costs.
I hold no man to be indispensable for the welfare of the country.
Your future depends on what you do today.
God forbid that India should ever become a military nation, which would be a menace to the peace of the world, and yet if things went on as they were doing, what hope was there for India and, therefore, for the world?
In a society based on nonviolence, the smallest nation will feel as tall as the tallest.
I suggest that we are thieves in a way. If I take anything that I do not need for my own immediate use, and keep it, I thieve it from somebody else. ... Nature produces enough for our wants from day to day, and if only every-body took enough for himself and nothing more, there would be no pauperism in this world, there would be no man dying of starvation in this world. But so long as we have got this inequality, so long we are thieving.
The science of war leads one to dictatorship, pure and simple. The science of non-violence alone can lead one to pure democracy. Power based on love is thousand times more effective and permanent than power derived from fear of punishment. It is a blasphemy to say non-violence can be practiced only by individuals and never by nations which are composed of individuals. The nearest approach to purest anarchy would be a democracy based on non-violence. A society organized and run on the basis of complete non-violence would be the purest anarchy.
[It] is impossible for us to establish a living vital connection with the masses unless we will work for them, through them and in their midst, not as their patrons but as their servants.
Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane.
The meticulous care for the rights of the least among us is the sin qua non of nonviolence.
Love based upon indulgence of animal passion, is at best a selfish affair, and likely to snap under the slightest strain.
Politics bereft of religion is absolute dirt, ever to be shunned.
Complete independence will be complete only to the extent of our approach in practice to truth and nonviolence.
External fears cease of their own accord when once we have conquered these traitors within the camp.
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.
A smattering of English is worse than useless; it is an unnecessary tax on our women.
To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.
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