Indeed one's faith in one's plans and methods is truly tested when the horizon before one is the blackest.
Mahatma GandhiTruth and non-violence are not cloistered virtues but applicable as much in the forum and the legislatures as in the market place.
Mahatma GandhiFinal Satyagraha is inconceivable without an honorable peace between the several communities composing the Indian nation.
Mahatma GandhiI believe that just as everyone inherits a particular form so does he inherit the particular characteristics and qualities of his progenitors, and to make this admission is to conserve one's energy.
Mahatma GandhiKhaddar has the greatest organizing power in it because it has itself to be organized and because it affects all India.
Mahatma GandhiViolence is bound sooner or later to exhaust itself but peace cannot issue out of such exhaustion.
Mahatma GandhiNonviolence of the strong cannot be a mere policy. It must be a creed, or a passion, if 'creed' is objected to.
Mahatma GandhiIt is impossible for me to reconcile myself to the idea of conversion after the style that goes on in India and elsewhere today. It is an error which is perhaps the greatest impediment to the world's progress toward peace. ... Why should a Christian want to convert a Hindu to Christianity? Why should he not be satisfied if the Hindu is a good or godly man?
Mahatma GandhiPalestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs... Surely it would be a crime against humanity to reduce the proud Arabs so that Palestine can be restored to the Jews partly or wholly as their national home
Mahatma GandhiThe cause is everything. Those even who are dearest to us must be shunted for the sake of the cause.
Mahatma GandhiNone, while in flesh, can be entirely free from himsa, because one never completely renounces the will to live.
Mahatma GandhiA man who is swayed by negative emotions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.
Mahatma GandhiAs a splendid palace deserted by its inmates looks like a ruin, so does a man without character, all his material belongings notwithstanding.
Mahatma GandhiOf all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking, or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity; to me, the female sex is not the weaker sex.
Mahatma GandhiGod 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?
Mahatma GandhiMy knowledge of the letter of the Shastras is better, but of true religion they are able to give me but little.
Mahatma GandhiAshram means a community of men of religion. I feel that an ashram was a necessity of life for me.
Mahatma Gandhi... we have to learn to use that force (love) among all that lives, and in the use of it consists our knowledge of God. Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction.
Mahatma GandhiA congregational prayer is a means for establishing essential human unity though common worship.
Mahatma GandhiIf we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be
Mahatma GandhiYou cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.
Mahatma GandhiIf you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold.
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