When freedom is in jeopardy, non-co-operation may be a duty and prison may be a palace.
Mahatma GandhiMy modesty has prevented me from declaring from the house top that the message of non-co-operation, nonviolence and swadeshi is a message to the world.
Mahatma GandhiRelationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.
Mahatma GandhiNo nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.
Mahatma GandhiAll sins are committed in secrecy. The moment we realize that God witnesses even our thoughts, we shall be free.
Mahatma GandhiMine is not a religion of the prison-house. It has room for the least among God's creation.
Mahatma GandhiThe person who discovered the law of love was a far greater scientist than any of our modern scientists. Only our explorations have not gone far enough and so it is not possible for everyone to see all its workings.
Mahatma GandhiIndeed, these errors and my prompt confessions have made me surer, if possible, of my insight into the implications of truth and ahimsa.
Mahatma GandhiEven swadeshi, like any other good thing, can be ridden to death if it is made a fetish.
Mahatma GandhiNonviolence has come among men and it will live. It is the harbinger of the peace of the world.
Mahatma GandhiOnly he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
Mahatma GandhiObedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society.
Mahatma GandhiDiversity there certainly is in the world, but it means neither inequality nor untouchability.
Mahatma GandhiToday I know that physical training should have as much place in the curriculum as mental training.
Mahatma GandhiMoral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
Mahatma GandhiI recognise no God except the God that is to be found in the hearts of the dumb millions.
Mahatma GandhiThe most practical, the most dignified way of going on in the world is to take people at their word, when you have no positive reason to the contrary.
Mahatma GandhiNothing in the Shastra, which is manifestly contrary to universal truths and morals, can stand.
Mahatma GandhiThe 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.
Mahatma GandhiFor me there is a vital connection between the Bihar calamity and the untouchability campaign.
Mahatma GandhiThe Indian struggle is not anti-British, it is anti-exploitation, anti-foreign rule, not anti-foreigners.
Mahatma GandhiThe lives of Zoroaster, Jesus and Mohammed, as I have understood them, have illumined many a passage in the Gita.
Mahatma GandhiAll religions teach that two opposite forces act upon us and the human endeavour consists in a series of eternal rejections and acceptances.
Mahatma GandhiI must dissent emphatically from any proposal to spend any money on preparing a statue of me, more especially at a time when people do not have enough food and clothing.
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