Lovers of Swaraj cannot rest till a solution is found which would allay Mussalman apprehensions and yet not endanger Swaraj.
Swaraj of a people means the sum total of the Swaraj (self-rule) of individuals.
Swaraj is not a product of excitement or intoxication. Swaraj will be the natural and inevitable result of business like habits.
When we postpone the harvest, the fruit rots, but when we postpone our problems, they keep on growing.
If you have to invoke a distant past to justify a present grievance, the case for the grievance is already undermined.
The Swaraj of my dream is the poor man's Swaraj.
You can't postpone sorrow, so why would you postpone happiness?
To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life. It not infrequently happens that those who hunger for hope give their allegiance to him who offers them a grievance.
I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection. - Hind Swaraj
Swaraj would be real Swaraj only when there would be no occasion for safeguarding any rights.
Nobody felt sad as long as we could postpone tomorrow with more nostalgia.
At the individual level Swaraj is vitally connected with the capacity for dispassionate self-assessment , ceaseless self purification and growing self-reliance.... It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves
The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that. What is grievance? The baggage of old thought and emotion.
I ignore the jealous, I ignore the malicious, I ignore the ignorant, and I ignore the paranoid. If the shoe fits anyone, wear it.
It is an old adage, "All is fair in love as in war," but I thought not of general laws, and only felt a private grievance.
We do not postpone the participation of the lower classes of our people in the profits of economic enterprise, and in other countries, they do postpone it. In the long run, I think our policy is better, and we stand by it.