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Conservation of national sanitation is Swaraj work and it may not be postponed for a single day on any consideration whatsoever.
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Faith alone is the sun of life.
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If love or non – violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces.
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A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard.
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Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.
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The socialistic conception of the West was born in an environment reeking with violence.
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A satyagrahi loves his so-called enemy even as he loves his friend. He has no enemy.
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You cannot neglect the nearer duty for the sake of a remote.
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Khadi is the sun of the village solar system.
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The greatest menace to the world today is the growing, exploiting, irresponsible imperialism.
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The scriptures of Christians, Mussalmans and Hindus are all replete with the teaching of ahimsa.
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Let your life be your message.
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Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa.
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All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation.
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Do not concentrate on showing the misdeeds of the government, for we have to convert and befriend those who run it.
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Healthy and nourishing food was the only alpha and omega of rural economy.
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. For the least sin, it wouldn't take us longTo get so we had no one left to live with.For to be social is to be forgiving.
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It's not just words. Action expresses priorities.
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Everyone has faith in God though everyone does not know it. For everyone has faith in himself and that multiplied to the nth degree is God. The sum total of all that lives is God. We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean.
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Before Hindus and Moslems dare think of freedom, they must be brave enough to love one another, to tolerate one another's religion, even prejudices and superstitions, and to trust one another. This requires faith in oneself.
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If you do nothing there will be no results.
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I believe in absolute oneness of God and therefore also of humanity.
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I am a Hindu by birth. And yet I do not know much of Hinduism, and I know less of other religions. In fact I do not know where I am, and what is and what should be my belief. I intend to make a careful study of my own religion and, as far as I can, of other religions as well.
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I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no dis-advantage whatever. In fact I can see that, on the contrary, it has been all to my advantage.