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Last updated on April 22, 2025.
True religion being the greatest thing in life and in the world, has been exploited the most.
Satyagraha can rid society of all evils, political, economic and moral.
Satyagraha is a law for universal application. Beginning with the family, its use can be extended to every other circle.
No Indian who aspires to follow the way of true religion can afford to remain aloof from politics.
Satyagraha is a relentless search for truth and a determination to search truth.
It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves.
Satyagraha and civil disobedience and fasts have nothing in common with the use of force, veiled or open.
Satyagraha is an attribute of the spirit within.
The satyagrahi general has to obey his inner voice, for over and above the situation outside he examines himself constantly and listens to the dictates of the inner self.
Swaraj would be real Swaraj only when there would be no occasion for safeguarding any rights.
Even a little of dharma saves one from many a pitfall.
Swaraj is not a product of excitement or intoxication. Swaraj will be the natural and inevitable result of business like habits.
Politics bereft of religion is absolute dirt, ever to be shunned.
To get Swaraj is to get rid of our helplessness.
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.
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.
To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.
Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion.
Satyagraha thrives on repression till at last the repressor is tired of it and the object of satyagraha is gained.
Every person, as every institution, and, above all, every religion is to be judged not by the amount of atrocities or the wrong committed but by the right conduct.
Conservation of national sanitation is Swaraj work and it may not be postponed for a single day on any consideration whatsoever.
Swaraj means even under dominion status a capacity to declare independence at will.
Swaraj can only be achieved through an all-round consciousness of the masses.
The fight of satyagraha is for the strong in spirit, not the doubter or the timid. Satyagraha teaches us the art of living as well as dying.
In satyagraha, a courted imprisonment carries its own praise.
The pilgrimage to Swaraj is a painful climb.
Satyagraha is a process of educating public opinion, such that it covers all the elements of the society and in the end makes itself irresistible.
For winning Swaraj one requires iron discipline.
Swaraj will favour Hinduism no more than Islam, nor Islam more than Hinduism.
Satyagraha is a purely spiritual weapon.
Let hundreds like me perish, but let truth triumph.
My Swaraj will be not be a result of murder of others but a voluntary act of continuous self-sacrifice.
I shall never know God if I do not wrestle with and against evil, even at the cost of life itself.
The highest truth needs no communicating, for it is by its very nature self-propelling. It radiates its influence silently as the rose its fragrance without the intervention of a medium.
Swaraj, without any qualifying clause, includes that which is better than the best one can conceive or have today.
Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice - nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate.
Swaraj for me means freedom for the meanest of countrymen.
There can be no Swaraj where there is no harmony, no music.
Where there is truth, there also is knowledge which is true.
Swaraj as conceived by me does not mean the end of kingship.
Work for Swaraj fails to appeal to us because we have no music in us.
We are aware that the business of Swaraj will thrive only if the boycott of foreign cloth is successful.
If we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place.
Swaraj does not depend on jail going. If it did, there are thousands of prisoners in jail today. It depends on everyone doing his or her own task.
One cannot reach Truth by untruthfulness. Truthful conduct alone can reach truth.
Swaraj is our birthright. No one can deprive us of it unless we forfeit it ourselves.
A successful search for truth means complete deliverance from the dual throng, such as of love and hate, happiness and misery.
Silence is a great help to a seeker after truth like myself.
True ahimsa lay in running into the mouth of himsa.
The attainment of national independence is to me a search for truth.
So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.
No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing.
To ignore the Mussalman grievance as if it was not felt is to postpone Swaraj.
A certain degree of physical harmony and comfort is necessary, but above a certain level it becomes a hindrance instead of a help. Therefore the ideal of creating an unlimited number of wants and satisfying them seems to be a delusion and a snare.
The Swaraj of my dream recognizes no race or religious distinctions.
Because no one sees the truth does not make it untrue.
The moral to be legitimately drawn from the supreme tragedy of the bomb is that it will not be destroyed by counter bombs even as violence cannot be by counter-violence.
Let the content of Swaraj grow with the growth of national consciousness and aspirations.
My Swaraj is to keep intact the genius of our civilization.
I will say that if there is anything like God Or Truth on earth, Hindu-Muslim unity is also possible.
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