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

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

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

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

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.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

Action expresses priorities.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

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

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

The good man is the friend of all living things.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek - I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

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

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

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

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

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

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

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

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

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.

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

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

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.

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

Non-violence is the article of faith.

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

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

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

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

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