"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."
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"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."
"Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies."
"Truth and nonviolence demand that no human being may debar himself from serving any other human being, no matter how sinful he may be."
"When a tiger changes his nature, Englishmen will change theirs."
"If everyone will try to understand the core of his own religion and adhere to it, and will not allow false teachers to dictate to him, there will be no room left for quarrelling."
"I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain."
"Nonviolence in politics is a new weapon in the process of evolution; its vast possibilities are yet unexplored."
"The truth is that God is the force. He is the essence of life. He is pure and undefiled consciousness. He is eternal."
"If she [woman] is weak in striking, she is strong in suffering."
"God's ways are more than Man's arithmetic."
"God's time never stops."
"God's laws are eternal and unalterable and not separable from God Himself."
"God cannot be so cruel and unjust as to make the distinctions of high and low between man and man, and woman and woman."
"God alone knows absolute Truth."
"God alone is truth, everything else is transitory and illusory."
"Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it."
"If the poet spun for half an hour daily, his poetry would gain in richness."
"The cause of the spinning wheel is too great and too good to have to rest on mere hero-worship."
"The Charkha supplemented the agriculture of the villagers and gave it dignity."
"The Charkha is the symbol of sacrifice, and sacrifice is essential for the establishment of the image of the deity."