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Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world; but to change ourselves. By Mahatma Gandhi

I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain. By Mahatma Gandhi

Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all. By Mahatma Gandhi

Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society. By Mahatma Gandhi

If a single man achieves the highest kind of love, it will be sufficient to neutralize the hate of millions. By Mahatma Gandhi

The method of satyagraha requires that the satyagrahi should never lose hope, so long as there is the slightest ground left for it. By Mahatma Gandhi

A true Brahmachari will not even dream of satisfying the fleshly appetite By Mahatma Gandhi

All the great religions of the world inculcate equality and brotherhood of mankind and the virtue of toleration. By Mahatma Gandhi

Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties. By Mahatma Gandhi

The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies. By Mahatma Gandhi

The Koran says that there can be no heaven for one who sheds the blood of an innocent neighbour. By Mahatma Gandhi

The reaction that a ruthless dictator sets up in us either that of awe or pity according respectively as we react to him violently on nonviolently. By Mahatma Gandhi

Man will ever remain imperfect, and it will always be his part to try to be perfect. By Mahatma Gandhi

We stand on the threshold of a twilight-whether morning or evening we do not know. One is followed by the night, the other heralds the dawn. By Mahatma Gandhi

Literacy is not the end of education nor even the beginning. By Mahatma Gandhi

Man in the flesh is essentially imperfect. He may be described as being made in the image of God but is far from being God. By Mahatma Gandhi

I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy. By Mahatma Gandhi

I am part and parcel of the whole and cannot find God apart from the rest of humanity. By Mahatma Gandhi

If you will express the requisite purity of character in action, you cannot do it better than through the spinning wheel. By Mahatma Gandhi

I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit alone when the time comes. By Mahatma Gandhi

Hindu religious literature, indeed all religious literature, is full of illustrations to prove the truth. By Mahatma Gandhi

God is that indefinable something which we all feel but which we do not know. By Mahatma Gandhi

God has blessed man with seed that has the highest potency and woman with a field richer than the richest earth to be found anywhere on his globe. By Mahatma Gandhi

God took and needed no personal service. He served His creatures without demanding any service for Himself in return. By Mahatma Gandhi

Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly. By Mahatma Gandhi

In a society based on nonviolence, the smallest nation will feel as tall as the tallest. By Mahatma Gandhi

What has appealed to me most in Tolstoy's life is that he practiced what he preached and reckoned no cost too great in his pursuit of truth. By Mahatma Gandhi

Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory. By Mahatma Gandhi

Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood. By Mahatma Gandhi

Hindu Dharma is like a boundless ocean teeming with priceless gems. The deeper you dive the more treasures you find. By Mahatma Gandhi

Coal is not dear for the coal-miner who can use it there and then, nor is khadi dear for the villager who manufactures his own khadi. By Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is an active force of the highest order. It is soul force or the power of the godhead within us. By Mahatma Gandhi

Satyagraha is a law for universal application. Beginning with the family, its use can be extended to every other circle. By Mahatma Gandhi

You can shake the world in a gentle way. By Mahatma Gandhi

In a gentle way, you can shake the world. By Mahatma Gandhi

The British power is the overlord without whom Indian princes cannot breathe. By Mahatma Gandhi

The spinning wheel is as much a necessity of Indian life as air and water. By Mahatma Gandhi

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. By Mahatma Gandhi

It is possible to reason out the existence of God to a limited extent. By Mahatma Gandhi

Faith becomes lame, when it ventures into matters pertaining to reason! By Mahatma Gandhi

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver. By Mahatma Gandhi

What the two hands of the labourer can achieve, the capitalist will never get with all his gold and silver. By Mahatma Gandhi

A rose will smell as sweet by any other name, but it must be the rose of liberty that I want and not the artificial product. By Mahatma Gandhi

Forces of nature act in a mysterious manner. We can but solve the mystery by deducing the unknown result from the known results of similar events. By Mahatma Gandhi

Unrestricted individualism is the law of the beast of the jungle. By Mahatma Gandhi

Economic equality is the master-key to nonviolent independence. By Mahatma Gandhi

Love never claims, it ever gives. By Mahatma Gandhi

The day a woman can walk freely on the roads at night, that day we can say that India has achieved independence By Mahatma Gandhi

The use of soul-force for turning stones into bread would have been considered, as it is still considered, as black magic. By Mahatma Gandhi

A fearless woman who knows that her purity is her best shield can never be dishonoured. By Mahatma Gandhi

All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error. By Mahatma Gandhi

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet. By Mahatma Gandhi

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer. By Mahatma Gandhi

High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship. By Mahatma Gandhi

God the Compassionate and the Merciful, Tolerance incarnate, allows Mammon to have his nine days' wonder. By Mahatma Gandhi

A man cannot serve God and Mammon, nor be "temperate and furious" at the same time. By Mahatma Gandhi

A life without vows is like a ship without an anchor or like an edifice that is built on sand instead of a solid rock. By Mahatma Gandhi

Disease increases in proportion to the increase in the number of doctors in a place. By Mahatma Gandhi

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion. By Mahatma Gandhi

Marriage must cease to be a matter of arrangement made by parents for money. By Mahatma Gandhi

If the Commander-in-Chief will look beyond the defence forces, he will discover that the real India is not military but peace-loving. By Mahatma Gandhi

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. By Mahatma Gandhi

The aim of university education should be to turn out true servants of the people who will live and die for the country's freedom. By Mahatma Gandhi

Do not judge others. Be your own judge and you will be truly happy. If you will try to judge others, you are likely to burn your fingers. By Mahatma Gandhi

Running away for fear of death, leaving one's dear ones, temples or music to take care of themselves, is irreligion; it is cowardice. By Mahatma Gandhi

Christianity in India is inextricably mixed up for the last hundred and fifty years with the British rule. By Mahatma Gandhi

The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule. By Mahatma Gandhi

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. By Mahatma Gandhi

India is less manly under the British rule than she ever was before. By Mahatma Gandhi

My knowledge of the letter of the Shastras is better, but of true religion they are able to give me but little. By Mahatma Gandhi

The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one. By Mahatma Gandhi

Life will not be a pyramid with the apex sustained by the bottom, but an oceanic circle whose centre will be the individual. By Mahatma Gandhi

God can never be realized by one who is not pure of heart. By Mahatma Gandhi

Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles. By Mahatma Gandhi

How can I even secretly harbour the thought that my neighbour's faith is inferior to mine? By Mahatma Gandhi

Every widow I have met has recognized in the wheel a dear forgotten friend. By Mahatma Gandhi

Be the change that you want to see By Mahatma Gandhi

Wildlife is decreasing in the jungles, but it is increasing in the towns. By Mahatma Gandhi

Today I know that physical training should have as much place in the curriculum as mental training. By Mahatma Gandhi

I would rather have India reduced to a state of pauperism than have thousands of drunkards in our midst. By Mahatma Gandhi

Imperialism is a negation of God. It does ungodly acts in the name of God. By Mahatma Gandhi

The greatest menace to the world today is the growing, exploiting, irresponsible imperialism. By Mahatma Gandhi

The credit system has encircled this beautiful globe of ours like a serpent's coil, and if we do not mind, it bids fair to crush us out of breath. By Mahatma Gandhi

God speaks to us every day only we don't know how to listen. By Mahatma Gandhi

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith. By Mahatma Gandhi

Renunciation without aversion is not lasting. By Mahatma Gandhi

The chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man. By Mahatma Gandhi

By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit. By Mahatma Gandhi

If I arrogate to myself the exclusive title of being in the right, I usurp the function of the Deity. By Mahatma Gandhi

Bullies are always to be found where there are cowards. By Mahatma Gandhi

Satan mostly employs comparatively moral instruments and the language of ethics to give his aims an air of respectability. By Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. By Mahatma Gandhi

Mine is not a religion of the prison-house. It has room for the least among God's creation. By Mahatma Gandhi

Strength of numbers is the delight of the timid. The Valiant in spirit glory in fighting alone. By Mahatma Gandhi

To a people famishing and idle, the only acceptable form in which God can dare appear is work and promise of food as wages. By Mahatma Gandhi

It is better to be charged with cowardice and weakness than to be guilty of denial of our oath and sin against God. By Mahatma Gandhi

Education without courage is like a wax statue - beautiful to look at but bound to melt at the first touch of a hot stuff. By Mahatma Gandhi

Self-sacrifice of one innocent man is a million times more potent than the sacrifice of a million men who die in the act of killing others. By Mahatma Gandhi

I cannot picture to myself a time when all mankind will have one religion. By Mahatma Gandhi

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. By Mahatma Gandhi

No police or military in the world can protect people who are cowards. By Mahatma Gandhi

The person who has the throne will not covet a position of civil or police authority. By Mahatma Gandhi

Democracy and dependence on the military and police are incompatible. By Mahatma Gandhi

That I want to destroy British imperialism is another matter, but I want to do so by converting those who are associated with it. By Mahatma Gandhi

If physical fasting is not accompanied by mental fasting it is bound to end in hypocrisy and disaster. By Mahatma Gandhi

Forgive and forget, but never forget to forgive. You may find a happier heart is the key to a happier life. By Mahatma Gandhi

Change yourself - you are in control. By Mahatma Gandhi

Liberty never meant the license to do anything at will. By Mahatma Gandhi

Touch-me-notism that disfigures the present day Hinduism is a morbid growth. By Mahatma Gandhi

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. By Mahatma Gandhi

Education should be so revolutionized as to answer the wants of the poorest villager, instead of answering those of an imperial exploiter. By Mahatma Gandhi

Think of the poorest person you know and see if your next act will be of any use to him. By Mahatma Gandhi

Unless discipline is rooted in nonviolence, it might prove to be a source of infinite mischief. By Mahatma Gandhi

We must be ever courteous and patient with those who do not see eye to eye with us. We must resolutely refuse to consider our opponents as enemies. By Mahatma Gandhi

You may pluck out my eyes, but that cannot kill me. You may chop off my nose, but that will not kill me. But blast my belief in God, and I am dead. By Mahatma Gandhi

Life becomes livable only to the extent that death is treated as a friend, never as an enemy. By Mahatma Gandhi

Faith ... must be enforced by reason ... when faith becomes blind it dies. By Mahatma Gandhi

People say true friends must always hold hands, but true friends don't need to hold hands because they know the other hand will always be there. By Mahatma Gandhi

I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death rather than kill him. By Mahatma Gandhi

Half-a-dozen or twenty cities of India alone working together cannot bring Swaraj. By Mahatma Gandhi

If blood be shed, let it be our own. Let us cultivate the calm courage to die without killing. By Mahatma Gandhi

God's grace and revelation are the monopoly of no race or nation. By Mahatma Gandhi

Lovers of Swaraj cannot rest till a solution is found which would allay Mussalman apprehensions and yet not endanger Swaraj. By Mahatma Gandhi

God has blessed me with the mission to place nonviolence before the nation for adoption. By Mahatma Gandhi

Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal. By Mahatma Gandhi

A scavenger who works in His service shares equal distinction with a king who uses his gifts in His name and is a mere trustee. By Mahatma Gandhi

I call myself a labourer because I take pride in calling myself a spinner, weaver, farmer and scavenger. By Mahatma Gandhi

Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people. By Mahatma Gandhi

A man of few words will rarely be thoughtless in his speech; he will measure every word. By Mahatma Gandhi

When I don't understand something, I reach up and hold God's hand. And we walk together in silence. By Mahatma Gandhi

I would beseech you not only to be pure beyond suspicion but I would ask you to combine with stainless purity, great wisdom and great ability. By Mahatma Gandhi

Change occurs when deeply felt private experiences are given public legitimacy. By Mahatma Gandhi

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. By Mahatma Gandhi

Homeopathy cures a larger percentage of cases than any other form of treatment and is beyond doubt safer and more economical. By Mahatma Gandhi

I do not regard killing or assassination or terrorism as good in any circumstances whatsoever. By Mahatma Gandhi

The spinning wheel and the spinning wheel alone will solve, if anything will solve, the problem of the deepening poverty of India. By Mahatma Gandhi

The call of the spinning wheel is the noblest of all. Because it is the call of love. And love is Swaraj. By Mahatma Gandhi

Nothing can so quickly put the masses on their legs as the spinning wheel and all it means. By Mahatma Gandhi

In the days of democracy there is no such thing as active loyalty to a person. You are, therefore, loyal or disloyal to institutions. By Mahatma Gandhi

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. By Mahatma Gandhi

My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet. By Mahatma Gandhi

Ramanama is for the pure at heart and for those who want to attain purity and remain pure. By Mahatma Gandhi

What is life worth without trials and tribulations which are the salt of life. By Mahatma Gandhi

There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results. By Mahatma Gandhi

I will not be a traitor of God to please the whole world. By Mahatma Gandhi

Fight if you must on the path of righteousness and God will be with you. By Mahatma Gandhi

Before God the work of man will be judged by the spirit in which it is done, not by the nature of the work which makes no difference whatsoever. By Mahatma Gandhi

Cow-slaughter and man-slaughter are in my opinion two sides of the same coin. By Mahatma Gandhi

How it is that Bengal with all its knowledge, intelligence, sacrifice, and emotion tolerates this slaughter? By Mahatma Gandhi

If a man voluntarily allows himself to be crushed, he yields the oil of moral energy which sustains the world. By Mahatma Gandhi

Prayer is a sign of repentance, a desire to become better, purer. By Mahatma Gandhi

A literal interpretation of the Gita lands one in a sea of contradictions. By Mahatma Gandhi

A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer. By Mahatma Gandhi

"All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense. By Mahatma Gandhi

God of Truth and Justice can never create distinctions of high and low among His own children. By Mahatma Gandhi

True happiness brings more richness than all the money in the world. By Mahatma Gandhi

Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power. By Mahatma Gandhi

God never made man that he may consider another man as untouchable. By Mahatma Gandhi

Man alone is made in the image of God. By Mahatma Gandhi

Truth, purity, self-control, firmness, fearlessness, humility, unity, peace, and renunciation - these are the inherent qualities of a civil resister. By Mahatma Gandhi

Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew. By Mahatma Gandhi

I am a Christian and a Hindu and a Muslim and a Jew. By Mahatma Gandhi

My conception of dominion status implies present ability to severe the British connection if I wish to. By Mahatma Gandhi

I recalled the late Mr. Pincutt's advice - facts are three-fourths of the law. At By Mahatma Gandhi

We must break through the provincial crust if we are to reach the core of all-India nationalism. By Mahatma Gandhi

Indian nationalism is not exclusive, nor aggressive, nor destructive. By Mahatma Gandhi

My nationalism is as broad as my swadeshi, I want India's rise so that the whole world may benefit. By Mahatma Gandhi

God has so ordered this world that no one can keep his goodness or badness exclusively to himself. By Mahatma Gandhi

You will eat not to satisfy your palate but your hunger. A self-indulgent man lives to eat; a self-restrained man eats to live. By Mahatma Gandhi

I eat to live, to serve, and also, if it so happens, to enjoy, but I do not eat for the sake of enjoyment. By Mahatma Gandhi

Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilized - the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals. By Mahatma Gandhi

Khadi service, village service and Harijan service are one in reality, though three in name. By Mahatma Gandhi

A fast to be true must be accompanied by a readiness to receive pure thoughts and determination to resist all Satan's temptations. By Mahatma Gandhi

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. By Mahatma Gandhi

Many persons claiming different faiths make us one and an indivisible nation. All these have an equal claim to be the nationals of India. By Mahatma Gandhi

Always believe in your dreams, because if you don't, you'll still have hope. By Mahatma Gandhi

People engaged in a war do not lose temper over matters which affect the fortunes of war. By Mahatma Gandhi

Yajna is duty to be performed, or service to be rendered, all twenty-four hours of the day. By Mahatma Gandhi

The face of Truth is hidden behind the golden veil of maya, says the Upanishad. By Mahatma Gandhi

Weeding is as necessary to agriculture as sowing. By Mahatma Gandhi

If she [woman] is weak in striking, she is strong in suffering. By Mahatma Gandhi

Reason has to be strengthened by suffering, and suffering opens the eyes of understanding. By Mahatma Gandhi

I consider Western Christianity in its practical working a negation of Christ's Christianity. By Mahatma Gandhi

Moral restrictions tend to become lax in a foreign country, since the fear of social opinion disappears. By Mahatma Gandhi

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm. By Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues. By Mahatma Gandhi

I call him religious who understands the suffering of others. By Mahatma Gandhi

Woman is more fitted than man to make explorations and take bolder action in ahimsa. By Mahatma Gandhi

The spinning wheel is not meant to oust a single man or woman from his or her occupation. By Mahatma Gandhi

Truth should so humble that even dust could crush it. By Mahatma Gandhi

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind. By Mahatma Gandhi

I honor the place within you where, when you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us. By Mahatma Gandhi

I am the only one, whom you may find it hard to get rid of, for I have always counted myself as a woman. By Mahatma Gandhi

The canker has so eaten into the society that in many cases the only meaning of education is a knowledge of English. By Mahatma Gandhi

My personal religion enables me to serve my countrymen without hurting the English or, for that matter, anybody else. By Mahatma Gandhi

It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business. By Mahatma Gandhi

Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy. By Mahatma Gandhi

What lies ahead of you & what lies behind you is nothing compared to what lies within you. By Mahatma Gandhi

A seeker of truth will never begin by discounting his opponent's statement as unworthy of trust. By Mahatma Gandhi

To have a happy ending, choose a happy moment and call it 'the ending'. Honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune. By Mahatma Gandhi

Prayer is no mere exercise of words or of the ears, it is no mere repetition of empty formula. By Mahatma Gandhi

Love, otherwise ahimsa, sustains this planet of ours. By Mahatma Gandhi

We believe as much in the purity of race as we think they do ... We believe also that the white race of South Africa should be the predominating race. By Mahatma Gandhi

If Swaraj is to be had by peaceful methods, it will only be attained by attention to every little detail of national life. By Mahatma Gandhi

It is easier to build a boy than to mend a man. By Mahatma Gandhi

Force that the performance of duty naturally generates is the non-violent and invincible force that satyagraha brings into being. By Mahatma Gandhi

I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people. By Mahatma Gandhi

When the wheel was accepted as part of the national flag, it was surely implied that the spinning wheel would hum in every household. By Mahatma Gandhi

A national spirit is necessary for national existence. A flag is a material aid to the development of such a spirit. By Mahatma Gandhi

The Law is God. Anything attributed to Him is not a mere attribute. He is Truth, Love, Law and a million things that human ingenuity can name. By Mahatma Gandhi

I am now of the opinion that children should first be taught the art of drawing before learning how to write. By Mahatma Gandhi

Every person in a well-ordered state is fully conscious of both his responsibilities and his rights. By Mahatma Gandhi

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity. By Mahatma Gandhi

Knowledge and devotion, to be true, have to stand the test of renunciation of the fruits of action. By Mahatma Gandhi

Without devotion, action and knowledge are cold and dry and many even become shackles. By Mahatma Gandhi

Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind. By Mahatma Gandhi

The cow is the purest type of sub-human life. By Mahatma Gandhi

For me the only certain means of knowing God is nonviolence, ahimsa, love. By Mahatma Gandhi

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'. By Mahatma Gandhi

The lives of Zoroaster, Jesus and Mohammed, as I have understood them, have illumined many a passage in the Gita. By Mahatma Gandhi

You cannot succeed in one department of life while cheating on another, life is an indivisible whole. By Mahatma Gandhi

Khadi mentality means decentralization of the production and distribution of the necessaries of life. By Mahatma Gandhi

The true function of a lawyer was to unite parties driven asunder. By Mahatma Gandhi

The Charkha in the hands of a poor widow brings a paltry price to her, in the hands of Jawaharlal; it is an instrument of India's freedom. By Mahatma Gandhi

Even if masses of people were to burn khadi publicly and say that it is an insane programme, I will declare that those people have gone mad. By Mahatma Gandhi

One's everyday life is never capable of being separated from his spiritual being. By Mahatma Gandhi

The socialistic conception of the West was born in an environment reeking with violence. By Mahatma Gandhi

God is always the upholder of justice. By Mahatma Gandhi

When untouchability is rooted out, these distinctions will vanish and no one will consider himself superior to any other. By Mahatma Gandhi

Labour is a great leveler of all distinctions. By Mahatma Gandhi

There is more to life than increasing its speed. By Mahatma Gandhi

The pure love of one soul can offset the hatred of millions. By Mahatma Gandhi

No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation. By Mahatma Gandhi

I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. By Mahatma Gandhi

I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it ... By Mahatma Gandhi

External fears cease of their own accord when once we have conquered these traitors within the camp. By Mahatma Gandhi

Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion. By Mahatma Gandhi

It was not easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it. By Mahatma Gandhi

No matter how explicit the pledge, people will turn and twist the text to suit their own purpose By Mahatma Gandhi

That matchless remedy (for self realisation) is renunciation of fruits of action. By Mahatma Gandhi

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. By Mahatma Gandhi

Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life. By Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence cannot be learnt by staying at home. By Mahatma Gandhi

Can a general fight on the strength of soldiers, who, he knows, have no faith in him? By Mahatma Gandhi

He is no God who merely satisfies the intellect, if He ever does. By Mahatma Gandhi

God demands nothing less than self - surrender as the price for the only real freedom that is worth having. By Mahatma Gandhi

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men. By Mahatma Gandhi

He who has a living faith in God will not do evil deeds with name of God on his lips. By Mahatma Gandhi

I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence. By Mahatma Gandhi

When we fear God, then we shall fear no man, however high-placed he may be. By Mahatma Gandhi

I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage. By Mahatma Gandhi

A truly nonviolent man would never live to tell the tale of atrocities. He would have laid down his life on the spot in non-violent resistance. By Mahatma Gandhi

I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him. By Mahatma Gandhi

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. By Mahatma Gandhi

Final Satyagraha is inconceivable without an honorable peace between the several communities composing the Indian nation. By Mahatma Gandhi

I have pinned my faith to the spinning wheel. On it, I believe, the salvation of this country depends. By Mahatma Gandhi

All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation. By Mahatma Gandhi

There can be in the eyes of God no distinction between man and man, even as there is no distinction between animal and animal. By Mahatma Gandhi

My Hinduism must be a very poor thing if it cannot flourish even under the most adverse influence. By Mahatma Gandhi

All satyagraha and fasting is a species of tyaga. It depends for its effects upon an expression of wholesome public opinion shorn of all bitterness. By Mahatma Gandhi

I would ask you to come in Khadi, for Khadi links you with the fallen and the down-trodden. By Mahatma Gandhi

But all my life through, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise. By Mahatma Gandhi

I condemn, for all climes and for all times, secret murders and unfair methods even for a fair cause. By Mahatma Gandhi

An institution that suffers from a plethora of leaders is surely in a bad way. By Mahatma Gandhi

I must fight unto the death the unholy attempt to impose British methods and British institutions on India. By Mahatma Gandhi

My mother would tell me that the shortest cut to purification after the unholy touch was to cancel the touch by touching any Mussalman passing by. By Mahatma Gandhi

Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood. By Mahatma Gandhi

I want freedom for the full expression of my personality. By Mahatma Gandhi

God tries his votaries through and through but never beyond endurance. He gives them strength enough to go through the ordeal he prescribes for them. By Mahatma Gandhi

True ahimsa should mean a complete freedom from ill-will and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all. By Mahatma Gandhi

Is it not possible for us all to realize that the masses will never mount to freedom through murder? By Mahatma Gandhi

My love of nationalism is that my country may become free, and if need be, the whole of the country die, so that the human race may live. By Mahatma Gandhi

God is one whole; we are the parts. By Mahatma Gandhi

I find that we are all such sinners that it is better to leave the judging to God. By Mahatma Gandhi

You can return blow for blow if you are not brave enough to follow the path of nonviolence. By Mahatma Gandhi

Life is but an endless series of experiments. By Mahatma Gandhi

Dignity of human nature requires that we must face the storms of life. By Mahatma Gandhi

If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be By Mahatma Gandhi

The only praise I would like and treasure is the promotion of the activities to which my life is dedicated. By Mahatma Gandhi

There is only one desire in life which is good and the desire for the means to realise it is also good. By Mahatma Gandhi

The final goal of all religions is to realise the essential oneness. By Mahatma Gandhi

Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment. By Mahatma Gandhi

Non-co-operation enables us to show that in everything that matters we can be independent of the Government. By Mahatma Gandhi

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. By Mahatma Gandhi

It was through the Hindu religion that I learnt to respect Christianity and Islam. By Mahatma Gandhi

I am a man of peace. I believe in peace. But I do not want peace at any price. By Mahatma Gandhi

Not to believe in the possibility of permanent peace is to disbelieve in the Godliness of human nature. By Mahatma Gandhi

If we wish to create a lasting peace we must begin with the children. By Mahatma Gandhi

The man of prayer will be at peace with himself and with the whole world. By Mahatma Gandhi

Fearlessness presupposes calmness and peace of mind. By Mahatma Gandhi

If we are to create peace in our world, we must begin with our children. By Mahatma Gandhi

I do regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism are. By Mahatma Gandhi

How can I make difference so that I may bring peace to this world that I love and cherish so much? A name flickers instantly in my mind. By Mahatma Gandhi

Peace is neither taken nor given, only recognized within. By Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence has come among men and it will live. It is the harbinger of the peace of the world. By Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence in politics is a new weapon in the process of evolution; its vast possibilities are yet unexplored. By Mahatma Gandhi

Live simply so others may simply live By Mahatma Gandhi

Peace is the state where love abides and seeks to share itself. By Mahatma Gandhi

Peace is the most powerful weapon of mankind. By Mahatma Gandhi

With every true friendship, we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests. By Mahatma Gandhi

Peace is its own reward. By Mahatma Gandhi

Be the change which you want to happen to the world By Mahatma Gandhi

There is no way to peace, peace is the only way By Mahatma Gandhi

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. By Mahatma Gandhi

You can't shake hands with a closed fist. By Mahatma Gandhi

Without prayer there is no inward peace. By Mahatma Gandhi

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. By Mahatma Gandhi

Truth and non-violence are not cloistered virtues but applicable as much in the forum and the legislatures as in the market place. By Mahatma Gandhi

There is no greater spellbinder of peace than the name of God. By Mahatma Gandhi

The one condition for fighting for peace and liberty is to acquire self-restraint. By Mahatma Gandhi

Outward Peace is useless without inner Peace By Mahatma Gandhi

There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace. By Mahatma Gandhi

The English peace is the peace of the grave. By Mahatma Gandhi

The very first step in nonviolence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance, loving kindness. By Mahatma Gandhi

Nobody can hurt me without my permission. By Mahatma Gandhi

I believe that it is impossible to end hatred with hatred. By Mahatma Gandhi

The way of peace is the way of truth. Truthfulness is even more important than peacefulness. By Mahatma Gandhi

It Is possible to live in peace. By Mahatma Gandhi

Prayer is the only means of bringing about orderliness and peace and repose in our daily acts. By Mahatma Gandhi

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love. By Mahatma Gandhi

An India awakened and free has a message of peace and goodwill to a groaning world. By Mahatma Gandhi

All my actions have their rise in my inalienable love of mankind. By Mahatma Gandhi

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. By Mahatma Gandhi

I contend that non-violent acts exert pressure far more effective than violent acts, for the pressure comes from goodwill and gentleness. By Mahatma Gandhi

The very word Islam means peace, which is nonviolence. By Mahatma Gandhi

A satyagrahi, whilst he is ever ready to fight, must be equally eager for peace. By Mahatma Gandhi

If you want real peace in the world, start with children. By Mahatma Gandhi

I can combine the greatest love with the greatest opposition to wrong. By Mahatma Gandhi

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind. By Mahatma Gandhi

Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for. By Mahatma Gandhi

I have no other wish in this world but to find light and joy and peace through Hinduism. By Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you. By Mahatma Gandhi

My heart rebels against any foreigner imposing on my country the peace which is here called Pax-Britannica. By Mahatma Gandhi

There is no road towards peace; peace is the road By Mahatma Gandhi

Violence is bound sooner or later to exhaust itself but peace cannot issue out of such exhaustion. By Mahatma Gandhi

India's freedom must revolutionize the world's outlook upon Peace and War. By Mahatma Gandhi

My attempt and prayer are and will be for an honorable peace between belligerent nations in the least possible time. By Mahatma Gandhi

Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds. By Mahatma Gandhi

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children. By Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. By Mahatma Gandhi

I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace. By Mahatma Gandhi

Indeed, a civil resister offers resistance only when peace becomes impossible. By Mahatma Gandhi

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 By Mahatma Gandhi

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances. By Mahatma Gandhi

There are no good-byes, where ever you'll be, you'll be in my heart. By Mahatma Gandhi

A man's true wealth hereafter is the good he has done to his fellowmen. By Mahatma Gandhi

A man who is swayed by negative emotions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth. By Mahatma Gandhi

God has made of man and woman one complete whole. In the scheme of nature, both of them are equal. By Mahatma Gandhi

The votaries of nonviolence cannot harbour violence even in thought, let alone the question of doing it. By Mahatma Gandhi

I would rather drown myself in the waters of the Sabarmati than harbour hate or animosity in my heart. By Mahatma Gandhi

God is continuously in action, without resting for a single moment. By Mahatma Gandhi

My fast is, among other things, meant to qualify me for achieving that equal and selfless love. By Mahatma Gandhi

To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record. By Mahatma Gandhi

Real suffering bravely borne, melts even a heart of stone. Such is the potency of suffering. And there lies the key to Satyagraha. By Mahatma Gandhi

I have known only one way of carrying on missionary work, viz., by personal example and discussion with searchers for knowledge. By Mahatma Gandhi

He who does not see God in the next person he meets need look no further. By Mahatma Gandhi

Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it. By Mahatma Gandhi

Men are good. But they are poor victims making themselves miserable under the false belief that they are doing good. By Mahatma Gandhi

For me to dominate the Congress in spite of these fundamental differences is almost a species of violence which I must refrain from. By Mahatma Gandhi

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom. By Mahatma Gandhi

A seeker after truth, a follower of the law of Love, cannot hold anything against tomorrow. By Mahatma Gandhi

It has often occurred to me that a seeker after truth has to be silent. By Mahatma Gandhi

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth. By Mahatma Gandhi

Silence is a great help to a seeker after truth like myself. By Mahatma Gandhi

Blaming the wolf would not help the sheep much. The sheep must learn not to fall in the clutches of the wolf. By Mahatma Gandhi

Civilizations have come and gone and, in spite of our vaunted progress, I am tempted to ask again and again, 'To what purpose?' By Mahatma Gandhi

For me, Rama and Rahim are one and the same deity. I acknowledge no other God but the one God of truth and righteousness. By Mahatma Gandhi

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort. By Mahatma Gandhi

To kill these (rabid) dogs, in my opinion, amount to himsa, but I believe it to be inevitable if we are to escape much greater himsa. By Mahatma Gandhi

Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman? By Mahatma Gandhi

Jesus, to me, is a great world teacher among others. By Mahatma Gandhi

It was Ba's inspiration which helped me reach the heights of my inner self. She was my priceless jewel. By Mahatma Gandhi

The only real and reliable guarantee for khadi would be honesty, truthfulness and sincerity of khadi workers. By Mahatma Gandhi

Every man has an equal right to the necessaries of life even as birds and beasts have. By Mahatma Gandhi

By patriotism I mean the welfare of the whole people, if I secure it at the hands of my opponent, I should bow down my head to him. By Mahatma Gandhi

All your scholarship would be in vain if at the same time you do not build your character and attain mastery over your thoughts and your actions. By Mahatma Gandhi

Just as the body cannot exist without blood, so the soul needs the matchless and pure strength of faith. By Mahatma Gandhi

Love and ahimsa are matchless in their effect. By Mahatma Gandhi

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope. By Mahatma Gandhi

As long as you are trying your very best, there can be no question of failure. By Mahatma Gandhi

Urbanization in India is a slow but sure death for her villages and villagers. By Mahatma Gandhi

The real seat of taste was not the tongue but the mind By Mahatma Gandhi

Doubt is invariably the result of want or weakness of faith. By Mahatma Gandhi

Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself. By Mahatma Gandhi

Hindus, if they want unity among different races, must have the courage to trust the minorities. By Mahatma Gandhi

Unity among the different races and the different religions of India is indispensable to the birth of national life. By Mahatma Gandhi

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. By Mahatma Gandhi

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. By Mahatma Gandhi

I wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian. By Mahatma Gandhi

All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul. By Mahatma Gandhi

The future depends on what you do today. By Mahatma Gandhi

I might be ready to embrace a snake, but, if one comes to bite you, I should kill it and protect you. By Mahatma Gandhi

I retain the opinion that council entry is inconsistent with non-co-operation as I conceive it. By Mahatma Gandhi

I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality By Mahatma Gandhi

In the case of the Indian villager, an age-old culture is hidden under entrustment of crudeness. By Mahatma Gandhi

Non-co-operation means nothing less than training in self-sacrifice. By Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country. By Mahatma Gandhi

Spiritual instruments suffer in their potency when their use is taught through non-spiritual messages which are self-propagating. By Mahatma Gandhi

The primary object of non-co-operation is nowhere stated to be paralysis of the Government. The primary object is self-purification. By Mahatma Gandhi

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. By Mahatma Gandhi

Love is needed to strengthen the weak; love becomes tyrannical when it exacts obedience from an unbeliever. By Mahatma Gandhi

A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution. By Mahatma Gandhi

Truth (satya) is positive, nonviolence is negative. By Mahatma Gandhi

My nonviolence is made of stern stuff. It is firmer than the firmest metal known to scientists. By Mahatma Gandhi

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation. By Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom of India will demonstrate to all the exploited races of the earth that their freedom is very near. By Mahatma Gandhi

How heavy is the toll of sins and wrong that wealth, power and prestige exact from man. By Mahatma Gandhi

My errors have been errors of calculation and judging men, not in appreciating the true nature of truth and ahimsa or in their application. By Mahatma Gandhi

No man has ever been able to describe God fully. The same holds true of ahimsa. By Mahatma Gandhi

A man with a grain of faith in God never loses hope, because he ever believes in the ultimate triumph of Truth. By Mahatma Gandhi

God alone is immortal, imperishable. By Mahatma Gandhi

And he who would be friends with God must remain alone, or make the whole world his friend By Mahatma Gandhi

Since nothing else that I see merely through the senses can or will persist, He alone is. By Mahatma Gandhi

When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from within. By Mahatma Gandhi

This mad rush for wealth must cease and the labourer must be assured not only of a living wage but, also a daily task that is not mere drudgery. By Mahatma Gandhi

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. By Mahatma Gandhi

Every labourer is worthy of his hire. No country can produce thousands of unpaid whole-time workers. By Mahatma Gandhi

Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths. By Mahatma Gandhi

All religions are branches of the same mighty tree, but I must not change over from one branch to another for the sake of expediency. By Mahatma Gandhi

Religion is one tree with many branches. As branches, you may say, religions are many, but as a tree, religion is only one. By Mahatma Gandhi

Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha. By Mahatma Gandhi

In true democracy every man and woman is taught to think for himself or herself. By Mahatma Gandhi

Khadi is the sun of the village solar system. By Mahatma Gandhi

Khadi will be the sun of the whole industrial solar system. By Mahatma Gandhi

The hardest heart and the grossest ignorance must disappear before the rising sun of suffering without anger and without malice. By Mahatma Gandhi

I will not have the power of nonviolence to be underestimated in order to cover my limitations or weaknesses. By Mahatma Gandhi

Prayer can come in only when fasting has done its work. It can make fasting easy and bearable. By Mahatma Gandhi

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place. By Mahatma Gandhi

A living faith cannot be manufactured by the rule of majority By Mahatma Gandhi

No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority. By Mahatma Gandhi

A great man may not do great things but they do ordinary things greatly. By Mahatma Gandhi

Khaddar is an attempt to revise and reverse the process and establish a better relationship between the cities and villages. By Mahatma Gandhi

Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes. By Mahatma Gandhi

A samagra gramsevak must know everybody living in the village and render them such service as he possibly can. By Mahatma Gandhi

I would like to bury myself in an Indian village, preferably in a Frontier village. By Mahatma Gandhi

Khaddar was conceived with a much more ambitious object, that is, to make our villages starvation-proof. By Mahatma Gandhi

You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages. By Mahatma Gandhi

Roving dogs do not indicate the civilisation or compassion of the society. They betray on the country the ignorance and lethargy of its members. By Mahatma Gandhi

Harshness is conquered by gentleness, hatred by love, lethargy by zeal and darkness by light. By Mahatma Gandhi

Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government. By Mahatma Gandhi

It's not just words. Action expresses priorities. By Mahatma Gandhi

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. By Mahatma Gandhi

There can be no rule of God in the present state of iniquitous inequalities in which a few roll in riches and the masses do not get enough to eat. By Mahatma Gandhi

I once Experimented with marijuna, next thing I know I'm waking up with blood on my hands ... and not my own blood. By Mahatma Gandhi

Good government is no substitute for self-government. By Mahatma Gandhi

Rights of true citizenship accrue only to those who serve the State to which they belong. By Mahatma Gandhi

The duty of motherhood, which the vast majority of woman will always undertake, requires the qualities which men need not possess. By Mahatma Gandhi

If you're going to be a bear, be a grizzly. By Mahatma Gandhi

The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft. By Mahatma Gandhi

Education is the basic tool for the development of consciousness and the reconstitution of society. By Mahatma Gandhi

Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character. By Mahatma Gandhi

Bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education. By Mahatma Gandhi

Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children. By Mahatma Gandhi

By spiritual training I mean education of the heart. By Mahatma Gandhi

Literacy in itself is no education. By Mahatma Gandhi

Real education consists in drawing the best out of yourself. By Mahatma Gandhi

A balanced intellect presupposes a harmonious growth of body, mind and soul. By Mahatma Gandhi

Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves. By Mahatma Gandhi

Real education has to draw out the best from the boys and girls to be educated. By Mahatma Gandhi

Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest. By Mahatma Gandhi

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education. By Mahatma Gandhi

True education must correspond to the surrounding circumstances or it is not a healthy growth. By Mahatma Gandhi

What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education. By Mahatma Gandhi

All education in a country has got to be demonstrably in promotion of the progress of the country in which it is given. By Mahatma Gandhi

If we want to impart education best suited to the needs of the villagers, we should take the vidyapith to the villages. By Mahatma Gandhi

I believe that religious education must be the sole concern of religious associations. By Mahatma Gandhi

True education is that which proves useful in life and makes you industrious. By Mahatma Gandhi

I do regard spinning and weaving as a necessary part of any national system of education. By Mahatma Gandhi

I would rather have India without education, if that is the price to be paid for making it dry. By Mahatma Gandhi

National education to be truly national must reflect the national condition for the time being. By Mahatma Gandhi

Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India. By Mahatma Gandhi

Literary education must follow the education of the hand -the one gift that distinguishes man from beast. By Mahatma Gandhi

Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children under training? By Mahatma Gandhi

The function of Nayee-Talim is not to teach an occupation, but through it to develop the whole man. By Mahatma Gandhi

There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent. By Mahatma Gandhi

A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber. By Mahatma Gandhi

The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities. By Mahatma Gandhi

An education which does not teach us to discriminate between good and bad, to assimilate the one and eschew the other, is a misnomer By Mahatma Gandhi

The spirit of democracy ... requires change of the heart ... requires the inculcation of the spirit of brotherhood. By Mahatma Gandhi

The purification required is not of untouchables but of the so-called superior castes. By Mahatma Gandhi

I would not sell the vital interests of the untouchables for the sake of winning the freedom of India. By Mahatma Gandhi

Anger, lust and such other evil passions raging in the heart are the real untouchables. By Mahatma Gandhi

A true man of piety will consider himself a sinner and, therefore, untouchable. By Mahatma Gandhi

The patriotic spirit demands loyal and strict adherence to nonviolence and truth. By Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is the means, the end for everyone is complete independence. By Mahatma Gandhi

The attainment of national independence is to me a search for truth. By Mahatma Gandhi

If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is no independence. By Mahatma Gandhi

My Swaraj is to keep intact the genius of our civilization. By Mahatma Gandhi

Hindu-Muslim unity, khaddar and removal of untouchability are to me the foundation of Swaraj. By Mahatma Gandhi

Swaraj is not meant for cowards, but for those who would mount smilingly to the gallows and refuse even to allow their eyes to be bandaged. By Mahatma Gandhi

Swaraj would be real Swaraj only when there would be no occasion for safeguarding any rights. By Mahatma Gandhi

With God as witness, I want to proclaim this truth, that the way of violence cannot bring Swaraj, it can only lead to disaster. By Mahatma Gandhi

If we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place. By Mahatma Gandhi

Prosecution of the constructive programme means constructing the structure of Swaraj. By Mahatma Gandhi

Swaraj means, a state such that we can maintain our separate existence without the presence of the English. By Mahatma Gandhi

When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand. By Mahatma Gandhi

Swaraj is a hardy tree of patient growth. By Mahatma Gandhi