838 Inspiring Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

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

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

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

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

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

Responsibility will mellow and sober the youth and prepare them, for the burden they must discharge.

The good man is the friend of all living things.

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers.

I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.

Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment.

A man of truth must also be a man of care.

Civilization is the encouragement of differences.

The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit.

Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.

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

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.

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

Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation.

Man will ever remain imperfect, and it will always be his part to try to be perfect.

To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

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

There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.

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

Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.

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

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

The golden rule to apply in all such cases is resolutely to refuse to have what millions cannot.

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

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

I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.

One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

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

Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.

Terrorism and deception are weapons not of the strong, but of the weak.

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

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

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

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

My life is my message.

Hinduism insists on the brotherhood of not only all mankind but of all that lives.

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

Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

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

Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.

Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

If you want real peace in the world, start with children.

The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

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

A man who would interpret the scriptures must have the spiritual discipline.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

So far as I can see the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained mankind for ages.

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

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.

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

A definite forgiveness would mean a definite recognition of our strength.

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness.

When the ego dies, the soul awakes.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

The wise are unaffected either by death or life. These are but faces of the same coin.

God has no religion.

Find purpose. The means will follow.

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

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

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

If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.

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

Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law.

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

If you take care of your immediate surroundings, the universe will take care of itself.

A democrat must be utterly selfless. He must think and dream not in terms of self or of party, but only of democracy.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

In reality there are as many religions as there are individuals.

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

Sanitation is more important than Independence.

Satyagraha is a purely spiritual weapon.

Personally I like to believe that all become honest, the millennium is round the corner!

The future depends on what we do in the present.

Knowledge and devotion, to be true, have to stand the test of renunciation of the fruits of action.

My personal religion enables me to serve my countrymen without hurting the English or, for that matter, anybody else.

Nonviolent defence presupposes recklessness about one's life and property.

I call myself a labourer because I take pride in calling myself a spinner, weaver, farmer and scavenger.

Power is of two kinds: one is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love.

Without real nonviolence, there would be perfect anarchy.

In the case of the Indian villager, an age-old culture is hidden under entrustment of crudeness.

You cannot succeed in one department of life while cheating on another, life is an indivisible whole.

If we are true servants of the masses, we would take pride in spinning for their sake.

The Gita is not an aphoristic work, it is a great religious poem.

Under ideal conditions, the barrister and the bhangi (sweeper) should both get the same payment.

Nonviolence to be worth anything has to work in the face of hostile forces.

Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled.

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

I would like to say that that even the teachings of the Koran cannot be exempted from criticism.

No nation keeps another in subjection without herself turning into a subject nation.

The snakes have their place in the agricultural economy of the village, but our villagers do not seem realize it.

Languages proclaim that woman is half of man, and by parity of reasoning, man is half of woman.

Salvation of the Gita is perfect peace.

To a pure heart all hearts are pure.

For me the only certain means of knowing God is nonviolence, ahimsa, love.

The cause of the spinning wheel is too great and too good to have to rest on mere hero-worship.

They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.

If everybody lives by the sweat of his brow, the earth will become a paradise.

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

I would like to bury myself in an Indian village, preferably in a Frontier village.

Freedom and slavery are mental states.

What is equality of rights between a giant and a dwarf?

To a man with an empty stomach food is God.

A love that is based on the goodness of those whom you love is a mercenary affair.

I regard the constituent assembly as the substitute ofsatyagraha. It is constructive satyagraha.

Non-co-operation in itself is unnatural, vicious and sinful.

A democratic organization has to dare to do the right at all costs.

If you're going to be a bear, be a grizzly.

A satyagrahi has infinite patience, abundant faith in others, and ample hope.

The Gita is not for those who have no faith.

I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death rather than kill him.

I cannot be subservient anywhere.

Yajna having come to us with our birth, we are debtors all our lives, and thus for ever bound to serve the universe.

True education must correspond to the surrounding circumstances or it is not a healthy growth.

Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

People cannot hurt you without your permission.

The British are weak in numbers, we are weak in spite of our numbers.

Peace is the most powerful weapon of mankind.

True prayer is not a prelude to inaction.

If love or non-violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces.

There is no time limit for a satyagrahi nor is there a limit to his capacity for suffering.

The Law of Love, call it attraction, affinity, cohesion if you like, governs the world.

A man's true wealth hereafter is the good he has done to his fellowmen.

All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.

All the other industries will receive warmth and sustenance from khadi industry.

Love and ahimsa are matchless in their effect.

I had learnt at the onset not to carry on public work with borrowed money.

Khadi is the sun of the village solar system.

To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice.

Surely, conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows His creatures' hearts.

At the moment the British Common-wealth is a Commonwealth of White nation.

By Ram Raj I do not mean Hindu Raj. I mean by Ram Raj, Divine Raj, the Kingdom of God.

The cow is the purest type of sub-human life.

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

My only sanction is the love and affection in which you hold me. But it has its weaknesses, as it has its strengths.

Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help.

Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for.

You are no Satyagrahi if you remain silent or passive spectators while your enemy is being done to death.

I believe that there is no prayer without fasting, and there is no real fast without prayer.

Justice does not help those who slumber but helps only those who are vigilant.

To practice nonviolence in mundane matters is to know its true value.

Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes.

To a starving man, God can only appear in the form of bread.

Truth and untruth often co-exist; good and evil often are found together.

We must break through the provincial crust if we are to reach the core of all-India nationalism.

When nonviolence is accepted as the law of life, it must pervade the whole being and not be applied to isolated acts.

Ahimsa is my God, and Truth is my God.

The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.

Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence.

Only the toad under the harrow knows where it pinches him.

Satyagraha is search for Truth, and God is Truth.

Khadi mentality means decentralization of the production and distribution of the necessaries of life.

If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior.

If we are to reach real peace in the world, we shall have to begin with the children.

Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence.

Freedom of worship, even of public speech, would become a farce if interference became the order of the day.

The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

Ramanama is for the pure at heart and for those who want to attain purity and remain pure.

Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-violent structure of society.

It amazes me to find an intelligent person who fights against something which he does not at all believe exists.

Yajna is not yajna if one feels it to be burdensome or annoying.

Rama was not only on the lips of Hanuman. He was enthroned in his heart. He gave Hanuman exhaustless strength.

Faith is put to the test when the situation is most difficult.

No country can become a nation by producing a race of imitators.

God's grace and revelation are the monopoly of no race or nation.

Jesus never uttered a loftier or a grander truth than when he said that wisdom cometh out of the mouths of babes.

God speaks to us every day only we don't know how to listen.

God has a thousand names, or rather He is Nameless.

For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence.

Solitude is a catalyst for innovation.

I should wish to die if a man who is impure should parade his purity in front of me.

It is difficult for me to regard anyone who obeys no moral principle in his conduct to be a religious man.

That economics is untrue which ignores or disregards moral values.

A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification.

Voluntary service of others demands the best of which one is capable, and must take precedence over service of self.

I claim to be no more than an average man with below average capabilities.

A genuine satyagraha should never excite contempt in the opponent even when it fails to command regard or respect.

Untouchability is a terrible reality.

Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion.

The votary of ahimsa has only one fear, that is, of God.

Fear of disease killed more men than disease itself.

A faith gained in strength only when people were willing to lay down their lives for it.

He who would in his own person test the fact of God's presence can do so by a living faith.

A smattering of English is worse than useless; it is an unnecessary tax on our women.

To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record.

The world is weary of hate. We see the fatigue overcoming the Western nations.

All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense.

Nonviolence is a plant of slow growth, it grows imperceptibly but surely.

Behaviour is the mirror in which we can display our image.

To know music is to transfer it to life.

Outward appearance is nothing to Him if it is not an expression of the inner.

The scriptures of Christians, Mussalmans and Hindus are all replete with the teaching of ahimsa.

Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.

Violence begins with the fork.

My heart rebels against any foreigner imposing on my country the peace which is here called Pax-Britannica.

Civil disobedience is the inherent right of a citizen.

You will find that God is always by the side of the fearless.

Because no one sees the truth does not make it untrue.

The Koran says that there can be no heaven for one who sheds the blood of an innocent neighbour.

I have repeatedly stated that satyagraha never fails and that one perfect satyagrahi is enough to vindicate Truth.

A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation.

Punishment is God's. He alone is the infallible Judge.

If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek.

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.

I am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom.'

What is it but my ahimsa that draws thousands of women to me in fearless confidence?

The whole existence of man is a ceaseless duel between the forces of life and death.

No two leaves were alike, and yet there is no antagonism between them or between the branches on which they grow.

Untouchability is a blot on Hinduism. It is a canker eating into its vitals.

Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

For a non-violent person the whole world is one family. He will thus fear none, nor will others fear him.

Religion is a thing to be lived. It is not merely sophistry.

Mine is not a religion of the prison-house. It has room for the least among God's creation.

Temple going is for the purification of the soul.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Truth and ahimsa will never be destroyed.

This belief in God has to be based on faith which transcends reason.

Idleness is the great plague of India.

Ahimsa and love are one and the same thing.

Woman is more fitted than man to make explorations and take bolder action in ahimsa.

Pure motives can never justify impure or violent action.

We may attack systems. We must not attack men.

Man can only conceive God within the limitation of his own mind.

Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

If there is violence, it will certainly be crushed because violence can only end in a disgraceful rout.

Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice.

It was not easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it.

It is my unshakable belief that India's destiny is to deliver the message of nonviolence to mankind.

Birth-control through self-restraint is the most desirable, sensible and totally harmless method.

Swaraj for me means freedom for the meanest of countrymen.

May the work of your hands be a sign of gratitude and reverence to the human condition.

A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.

It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves.

God alone is truth, everything else is transitory and illusory.

Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.

When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand.

Always believe in your dreams, because if you don't, you'll still have hope.

By ahimsa we will be able to save the cow and also win the friendship of the English.

Freedom from all attachment is the realization of God as Truth.

Even a little untruth destroys a man, as a drop of poison ruins milk.

Conquer the heart of the enemy with truth and love, not by violence.

My non-violence bids me dedicate myself to the service of the minorities.

Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself.

Decency and tolerance, to be of any value, must be capable of withstanding the severest strain.

Desirelessness or renunciation does not come for the mere talking about it.

Cowards can never be moral.

All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation.

The measure of a country's greatness should be based on how well it cares for its most vulnerable populations.

Repression does for a true man or a nation what fire does for gold.

Cleanliness Is Next to Godliness.

Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience.

Untouchability is an error of long standing.

I literally believe in the possibility of a Sudhanva smiling away whilst he was being drowned in boiling oil.

The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Prayer can come in only when fasting has done its work. It can make fasting easy and bearable.

The British power is the overlord without whom Indian princes cannot breathe.

For a fallen India to aspire to move the world and protect the weaker races is seemingly an impertinence.

Truthis like a vast tree, which yields more and more fruit, the more you nurture it.

Whoever is victor, there should be, after the war, a commonwealth of all nations.

I believe that the yarn we spin is capable of mending the broken warp and woof of our life!

Let our first act each morning be the following resolve: I shall not fear anyone on Earth. I shall fear only God.

If I arrogate to myself the exclusive title of being in the right, I usurp the function of the Deity.

Imperfect men have no right to judge other imperfect men.

In matters concerning religion, I consider myself not a child but an adult with 35 years of experience.

Decency requires that when a programme is approved by the majority, all should carry it out faithfully.

God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth and He tries you through and through.

Religion is not like a house or a cloak which can be changed at will.

The khadi spirit means fellow-feeling with every human being on earth.

In the characteristics of the perfected man of the Gita, I do not see any to correspond to physical warfare.

Blaming the wolf would not help the sheep much. The sheep must learn not to fall in the clutches of the wolf.

What is imprisonment to the man who is fearless of death itself?

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Englishmen must learn to be Brahmins, not banias.

I believe in God, not as a theory but as a fact more real than life itself.

Your readiness to suffer will light the torch of freedom which will never be put out.

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

Ahimsa must be placed before everything else while it is professed. Then alone it becomes irresistible.

No human being is so bad as to be beyond redemption.

I can no more preach nonviolence to a cowardly man than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.

Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.

Compulsory obedience to a master is a state of slavery, willing obedience to one's father is the glory of son ship.

Where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.

Ahimsa is the strongest force known.

Outward Peace is useless without inner Peace.

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

A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate.

Swaraj would be real Swaraj only when there would be no occasion for safeguarding any rights.

Though God may be Love, God is Truth above all.

Let us fear God and we shall cease to fear man.

The propagation of truth and nonviolence can be done less by books than by actually living on those principles.

One hour spent in spinning should be an hour of self-development for the spinner.

Cow-protection can only be secured by cultivating universal friendliness, i.e. ahimsa.

There is only one God for us all, whether we find him through the Koran, the Zend-Avesta, The Tolmud, or the Gita.

Hinduism would not have been much of a religion if Rama had not steeled his heart against every temptation.

The thing about you Christians, is that you are so unlike your Christ.

Evil is, good or truth misplaced.

I must try to live in society and yet remain untouched by its pitfalls.

When you are right,you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry.

True education is that which proves useful in life and makes you industrious.

True religion being the greatest thing in life and in the world, has been exploited the most.

Swaraj as conceived by me does not mean the end of kingship.

I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.

No Indian who aspires to follow the way of true religion can afford to remain aloof from politics.

Satyagraha as conceived by me is a science in the making.

It was through the Hindu religion that I learnt to respect Christianity and Islam.

I know that I can never be alone as God is there with me.

There are only two ways to live your life: as though nothing is a miracle, or as though everything is a miracle.

In the dictionary of satyagraha, there is no enemy.

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

Let not the spirit wander while the words of prayer run on out of our mouth.

The untouchability of Hinduism is probably worse than that of the modern imperialists.

Unrestricted individualism is the law of the beast of the jungle.

God's ways are more than Man's arithmetic.

Without devotion, action and knowledge are cold and dry and many even become shackles.

The problem today is not lack of proper resources, but lack of proper distribution.

Ahimsa and Truth are so intertwined that it is practically impossible to disentangle and separate them.

A successful bloody revolution can only mean further misery for the masses.

If you have faith in the cause and the means and in God, the hot sun will be cool for you.

Cowardice is not a sign of belief in God.

The pure love of one soul can offset the hatred of millions.

God of Truth and Justice can never create distinctions of high and low among His own children.

Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world.

Life is one indivisible whole.

Do not concentrate on showing the misdeeds of the government, for we have to convert and befriend those who run it.

Like the watch, the heart needs the winding of purity, or the Dweller ceases to speak.

Moral restrictions tend to become lax in a foreign country, since the fear of social opinion disappears.

Character alone will have real effect on the masses.

If untouchability is an integral part of Hinduism, the latter is a spent bullet.

Ahimsa can be practiced only towards those that are inferior to you in every way.

My fight against untouchability is a fight against the impure in humanity.

I see neither bravery nor sacrifice in destroying life or property, for offense or defense.

What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.

Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy.

Everyone holds a piece of the truth.

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

How heavy is the toll of sins and wrong that wealth, power and prestige exact from man.

God is the shield of the nonviolent.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

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

Renunciation is everyone's prerogative.

A man with a grain of faith in God never loses hope, because he ever believes in the ultimate triumph of Truth.

Every calamity should lead to a thorough cleansing of individual as well as social life.

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure. Not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.

Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.

The Charkha is the symbol of sacrifice, and sacrifice is essential for the establishment of the image of the deity.

Civil disobedience can only lead to strength and purity.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.

If I did not have a sense of humor, I would have long ago killed myself.

I learnt from Hussein how to achieve victory while being oppressed.

What lies ahead of you and what lies behind you is nothing compared to what lies within you.

Education is the basic tool for the development of consciousness and the reconstitution of society.

I still somehow or other fancy that "my philosophy" represents the true meaning of the teaching of the Gita.

When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war.

I have shut my mind against nothing and I am a friend of Great Britain. I always have been. I have no axe to grind.

If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth, you must reduce yourself to a zero.

Violence is bound sooner or later to exhaust itself but peace cannot issue out of such exhaustion.

The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet.

If a man voluntarily allows himself to be crushed, he yields the oil of moral energy which sustains the world.

Dignity of human nature requires that we must face the storms of life.

So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.

The Bible is as much a book of religion with me as the Gita and the Koran.

A small group of determined and like-minded people can change the course of history.

Cow protection is the gift of Hinduism to the world.

Soul-force comes only through God's grace and never descends upon a man who is a slave to lust.

Surely Islam has nothing to fear from criticism even if it be unreasonable.

Means to be means must always be within our reach, and so ahimsa is our supreme duty.

Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.

Nonviolence or soul force does not need physical aids for its propagation of effect.

The more efficient a force is, the more silent and the more subtle it is.

Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness.

Meditation is waiting on God.

Ahimsa and Truth are my two lungs. I cannot live without them.

The removal of untouchability is a question of the purification of Hinduism.

Civil disobedience is a preparation for mute suffering.

I do not regard capital to be the enemy of labour.

Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.

Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire.

Hinduism loses its right to make a universal appeal if it closes its temples to Harijans.

The present war is the saturation point in violence. It spells, to my mind, also its doom.

Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Purification is never for the selfishly idle, it accrues only to the selflessly industrious.

The Truth is far more powerful than any weapon of mass destruction.

What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated?

Dharma is one and one only. Ahimsa means moksha, and moksha is the realization of Truth.

When a man fasts, it is not the gallons of water he drinks that sustains him, but God.

It's not just words. Action expresses priorities.

The day a woman can walk freely on the roads at night, that day we can say that India has achieved independence.

Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds.

Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths.

Religious truth, or for that matter any truth, requires a calm and meditative atmosphere for its percolation.

The purification required is not of untouchables but of the so-called superior castes.

It is weakness which breeds fear, and fear breeds distrust.

The greatest help you can give me is to banish fear from your hearts.

A literal interpretation of the Gita lands one in a sea of contradictions.

The sanyasa of the Gita will not tolerate complete cessation of activity.

In the Gita continuous concentration on God is the king of sacrifices.

The very word Islam means peace, which is nonviolence.

Unless the charkha adds to your ahimsa and makes you stronger every day, your Gandhism is of little avail.

Weeding is as necessary to agriculture as sowing.

Love is the law of life.

Restraint never ruins one's health.

The world is changing every moment, and is therefore unreal. It has non permanent existence.

Unity, to be real, must stand the severest strain without breaking.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.

Non-co-operation is protest against an unwitting and unwilling participation in evil.

When a man wants to make up with his Maker, he does not consult a third party.

Since nothing else that I see merely through the senses can or will persist, He alone is.

You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees.

Devotion to Truth is the sole justification for our existence.

What the two hands of the labourer can achieve, the capitalist will never get with all his gold and silver.

All the dry ethics of the world turn to dust because apart from God they are lifeless.

Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect.

The message of khaddar can penetrate to the remotest villages if we only will that it shall be so.

(When asked what he thought of Western civilization): 'I think it would be a good idea.

It is better to be charged with cowardice and weakness than to be guilty of denial of our oath and sin against God.

Not to believe in the possibility of permanent peace is to disbelieve in the Godliness of human nature.

To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act.

Satyagraha does not depend on outside help, it derives all its strength from within.

Wherever you are you will always be in my heart.

The renunciation of the Gita is the acid test of faith.

The consumption of vegetables involves himsa, but I cannot give them up.

The sanyasa of the Gita is all work and yet no work.

Diversity there certainly is in the world, but it means neither inequality nor untouchability.

Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha.

Unity among the different races and the different religions of India is indispensable to the birth of national life.

A satyagrahi exhausts all other means before he resorts to satyagraha.

The attack on untouchability is an attack on this high-and low-ness.

If Britain wins wholly, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and perhaps even Bolshevik Russia will disappear.

There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.

A person unbound by vows can never be absolutely relied upon.

It is necessary first to purify the drunken and dissolute worshippers in charge of some of these temples.

I know that man who forsakes Truth can forsake his country and his nearest and dearest ones.

It dawned upon me that fasting could be made as powerful a weapon of indulgence as of restraint.

If you want to play your part in the world's affairs, you must refuse to deck yourselves for pleasing man.

My soul refuses to be satisfied so long as it is a helpless witness of a single wrong or a single misery.

The prince and the peasant will not be equalized by cutting off the prince's head.

It is possible to reason out the existence of God to a limited extent.

For a satyagrahi brigade only those are eligible who believe in ahimsa and satya.

Satyagraha thrives on repression till at last the repressor is tired of it and the object of satyagraha is gained.

Breach of promise is no less an act of insolvency than a refusal to pay one's debt.

Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.

Nonviolence in politics is a new weapon in the process of evolution; its vast possibilities are yet unexplored.

My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.

I look upon air-power for destruction as a terrible crime against humanity.

God demands nothing less than self -- surrender as the price for the only real freedom that is worth having.

A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.

It is against the spirit of ahimsa to overawe even one person into submission.

Many could forgo heavy meals, a full wardrobe, a fine house, etcetera. It is the ego they cannot forgo.

The force of the spirit is ever progressive and endless. Its full expression makes it unconquerable in the world.

The only real and reliable guarantee for khadi would be honesty, truthfulness and sincerity of khadi workers.

Self-defense is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

The golden rule is to act fearlessly upon what one believes to be right.

Love transcends all animosity and is never partial.

The knowledge of the omnipresence of God also means respect for the lives even of those who may be called opponents.

Nonviolence, when it becomes active, travels with extraordinary velocity, and then it becomes a miracle.

The deeper the search in the mine of truth the richer the discovery of the gems buried there.

The only true resistance to this Government... is to cease to co-operate with it.

With every true friendship, we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests.

Concentrate on your task.

There's more to life than increasing its speed.

Love and exclusive possession can never go together.

Every expression of truth has in it the seeds of propagation, even as the sun cannot hide its light.

My Gita tells me that evil can never result from a good action.

There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.

Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.

I have felt that the Gita teaches us that what cannot be followed in day-to-day practice cannot be called religion.

There are two days in the year that we can not do anything, yesterday and tomorrow.

No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will.

Almost everything you do will seem insignificant, but it is important that you do it.

Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge.

To remove untouchability is a penance that caste Hindus owe to Hinduism and to themselves.

We must treat arrest as the normal condition of the life of a non-co-operator.

Conversion without a clean heart is a denial of God and religion.

What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.

Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government.

No displeasure, even of the dearest friends, can put me off the duty I see clearly in front of me.

Our nonviolence vis-а-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak.

The State is the sum total of the sacrifice, on its behalf, of its members.

A man of faith will remain steadfast to truth even though the whole world might appear to be enveloped in falsehood.

An India prostrate at the feet of Europe can give no hope to humanity.

All our philosophy is as dry as dust if it is not immediately translated into some act of living service.

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

If non-violence is the Law of our being, the future is with Women.

There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it.

I must fight unto the death the unholy attempt to impose British methods and British institutions on India.

Woman is, by habit or nature, queen of the household. She is not designed to organize on a large scale.

A genuine fast cleanses the body, mind and soul. It crucifies the flesh and to that extent sets the soul free.

A true man of piety will consider himself a sinner and, therefore, untouchable.

I believe in absolute oneness of God and therefore also of humanity.

The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.

I would not sell the vital interests of the untouchables for the sake of winning the freedom of India.

The most distinctive and largest contribution of Hinduism to India's culture is the doctrine of ahimsa.

What barrier is there that love cannot break?

I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.

If you think the world is all wrong, remember that it contains people like you.

Nonviolence requires great patience.

Prayer is the only means of bringing about orderliness and peace and repose in our daily acts.

All true art must help the soul to realize its inner self.

The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one.

Religions are different roads converging to the same point.

More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it.

Equality of sexes does not mean equality of occupations.

Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest.

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

I condemn, for all climes and for all times, secret murders and unfair methods even for a fair cause.

Marriage is not an act of services. It is a comfort man or woman seeks for himself or herself.

India's freedom will not be won by violence but only by the purest suffering without retaliation.

If we would be pure, if we would save Hinduism, we must rid ourselves of this poison of enforced widowhood.

The first principal of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.

My nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving the dear ones unprotected.

Labour is priceless, not gold.

Democracy and dependence on the military and police are incompatible.

Anger, lust and such other evil passions raging in the heart are the real untouchables.

There is no such thing as ‘too insane' unless others turn up dead due to your actions.

When you practice a life of non-violence you no longer need seek the truth, the truth finds you.

Love is a rare herb that makes a friend even of a sworn enemy and this herb grows out of nonviolence.

We dare not enter the kingdom of liberty with mere life-homage to truth and nonviolence.

Mankind is one, seeing that all are equally subject to the moral law. All men are equal in God's eyes.

Let your life be your message.

The chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man.

I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.

My firm belief is that he reveals Himself daily to every human being but we shut our ears to the still small Voice.

No man has ever been able to describe God fully. The same holds true of ahimsa.

Tolerance gives us spiritual insight, which is as far from fanaticism as the north pole is from the south.

The spinning wheel is not meant to oust a single man or woman from his or her occupation.

The still small voice within you must always be the final arbiter when there is a conflict of duty.

Prosecution of the constructive programme means constructing the structure of Swaraj.

God has been described by all the scriptures of the world as protector and saviour of the sinner.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry.

Non-co-operation is the nation's notice that it is no longer satisfied to be in tutelage.

Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.

Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.

This belief in the necessity of English training has enslaved us. It has unfitted us for true national service.

It is a travesty of true religion to consider one's own religion as superior and other's as inferior.

Ahimsa is not a matter of mere dietetics: it transcends it.

If you do nothing there will be no results.

My knowledge of the letter of the Shastras is better, but of true religion they are able to give me but little.

Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin.

Live each day as if it were your last. Learn as if you would live forever.

A plea for the spinning wheel is a plea for recognizing the dignity of labour.

All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.

Nonviolence is not an easy thing to understand, still less to practice, weak as we are.

All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error.

Both heaven and hell are within us.

No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world.

I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians.

You must not lose faith in humanity.

Our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world as in being able to remake ourselves.

We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean.

Prayer is an impossibility without a living faith in the presence of God within.

Non-co-operation means nothing less than training in self-sacrifice.

I believe that religious education must be the sole concern of religious associations.

There is no road to freedom, freedom is the road.

History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance.

Bądź zmianą, którą prag­niesz uj­rzeć w świecie.

Whatever can be useful to those starving millions is beautiful to my mind.

This feeling of helplessness in us has arisen from our deliberate dismissal of God from our common affairs.

If the lambs of the world had been willingly led, they would have long ago saved themselves from the butcher's knife.

Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life.

Christianity in India is inextricably mixed up for the last hundred and fifty years with the British rule.

I must not refrain from saying that India can gain more by waiving the right of punishment.

Man should earnestly desire the well -- being of all God's creations and pray that we may have the strength to do so.

Knowledge without devotion will be like a misfire.

Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country.

Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion.

When you make yourself into zero, your power becomes invincible.

Faith becomes lame, when it ventures into matters pertaining to reason!

Men to be men must be able to trust their womenfolk, even as the latter are compelled to trust them.

Truth, which is permanent, eludes the historian of events. Truth transcends history.

A balanced intellect presupposes a harmonious growth of body, mind and soul.

For India to enter into the race for armaments is to court suicide.

Renunciation means absence of hankering after fruit.

Few men are wantonly wicked.

India has an unbroken tradition of nonviolence from times immemorial.

God is omnipresent; even a pebble in the Narmada can represent Him and serve as an object of worship.

For me the present is merged in eternity. I may not sacrifice the latter for the present.

Ahimsa in theory no one knows. It is as indefinable as God.

Machinery is the chief symbol of modern civilization; it represents a great sin.

When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.

I may be a despicable person, but when Truth speaks through me I am
invincible.

India is less manly under the British rule than she ever was before.

Through realization of freedom of India, I hope to realize and carry on the mission of brotherhood of man.

Satyagraha does not begin and end with civil disobedience.

Indeed, a civil resister offers resistance only when peace becomes impossible.

My respectful study of other religions has not abated my reverence for or my faith in the Hindu scriptures.

All good thoughts and ideas mean nothing without action.

A prayerful study and experience are essential for a correct interpretation of the scriptures.

It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.

It is easy to stand in the crowd, but it takes courage to stand alone.

Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself?

There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace.

Truth is as hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.

Mereka tidak dapat mengambil harga diri kita kalau kita tidak memberikannya kepada mereka.

Cow protection to me is one of the most wonderful phenomena in the human evolution.

It is a sad thing that our schoolboys look upon manual labour with disfavour, if not contempt.

I retain the opinion that council entry is inconsistent with non-co-operation as I conceive it.

You may think your actions are meaningless and that they won't help, but that is no excuse, you must still act.

God Himself has reserved no right of revision of His own laws nor is there any need for Him for any such revision.

The final goal of all religions is to realise the essential oneness.

Satan's successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips.

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

My attitude towards the British is one of utter friendliness and respect.

The way to truth lies through ahimsa (nonviolence).

Economic equality of my conception does not mean that every one will literally have the same amount.

Healthy and nourishing food was the only alpha and omega of rural economy.

What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells?

Strength of numbers is the delight of the timid. The Valiant in spirit glory in fighting alone.

We must become the change we want to see.

Selfless action is a source of strength.

To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.

Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties.

Untouchability, I hold, is a sin, if Bhagavadgita is one of our Divine Books.

When a tiger changes his nature, Englishmen will change theirs.

No one has the capacity to judge God. We are drops in that limitless ocean of mercy.

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman.

Even swadeshi, like any other good thing, can be ridden to death if it is made a fetish.

Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science.

I regard Duryodhana and his party as the baser impulses in man, and Arjuna and his party as the higher impulses.

The practice of truth and nonviolence melted religious differences, and we learnt to see beauty in each religion.

The Indian struggle is not anti-British, it is anti-exploitation, anti-foreign rule, not anti-foreigners.

Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path.

But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

How can I even secretly harbour the thought that my neighbour's faith is inferior to mine?

All the great religions of the world inculcate equality and brotherhood of mankind and the virtue of toleration.

A life without vows is like a ship without an anchor or like an edifice that is built on sand instead of a solid rock.

Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.

Harijan service is a duty the caste Hindus owe to themselves.

What God may have enabled me to do is but a repayment of debt, and he who repays a debt deserves no praise.

Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?

If we wish to create a lasting peace we must begin with the children.

Carrying arms for the removal of the Arms Act can never fall under any scheme of nonviolence.

The sacred thread and the tuft of hair without a pure heart and a spirit of toleration do not make a Hindu.

Morality is contraband in war.

We are aware that the business of Swaraj will thrive only if the boycott of foreign cloth is successful.

The true battlefield is within.

Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.

The best politics is right action.

Man alone is made in the image of God.

The real love is to love them that hate you, to love your neighbor even though you distrust him.

Anything that exists is possible.

The earth has everything for all human needs, but nothing for his greed.

God has blessed me with the mission to place nonviolence before the nation for adoption.

In the midst of darkness, light persists.

If love wasn't the law of life, life would not have persisted in the midst of death.

I think it would be a good idea.

The idol in the temple is not God. But since God resides in every atom, He resides in that idol too.

You can't shake hands with a closed fist.

The future of India lies in its villages.

To give one's heart is to give all.

The Gita is not only my Bible and my Koran, it is more than that, it is my mother.

I love Christianity, Islam and many other faiths -- through Hinduism.

Satyagraha is a relentless search for truth and a determination to search truth.

It was our love of foreign cloth that ousted the wheel from its position of dignity.

Women are special custodians of all that is pure and religious in life.

Love in the sense of ahimsa has only a limited number of votaries in the world.

Hinduism has sinned in giving sanction to untouchability.

A devotee of Rama may be said to be the same as the steadfast one (sthitaprajnya) of the Gita.

The spinning wheel is as much a necessity of Indian life as air and water.

Self-respect knows no considerations.

We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime.

Vehement writing, even if it is charged with truth, is no answer to violent action.

Touch-me-notism that disfigures the present day Hinduism is a morbid growth.

A true and nonviolent combination of labour would act like a magnet attracting to it all the needed capital.

A satyagrahi, whilst he is ever ready to fight, must be equally eager for peace.

Violence will prevail over violence, only when someone can prove to me that darkness can be dispelled by darkness.

Real education consists in drawing the best out of yourself.

God is certainly one. He has no second. He is unfathomable, unknowable and unknown to the vast majority of mankind.

Disobedience, to be civil, implies discipline, thought, care, attention.

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.

It was Ba's inspiration which helped me reach the heights of my inner self. She was my priceless jewel.

Violent nationalism, otherwise known as imperialism, is a curse.

All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.

All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles.

Nonviolence has come among men and it will live. It is the harbinger of the peace of the world.

Non-co-operators will make a serious mistake if they seek to convert people to their creed by violence.

Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

Labour is a great leveler of all distinctions.

God's word is : He who strives never perishes.

Live simply that others may simply live.

A man of faith does not bargain or stipulate with God.

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won.

Hindu Dharma is like a boundless ocean teeming with priceless gems. The deeper you dive the more treasures you find.

That which looks for mercy from an opponent is not non-violence.

If you give me rice, I'll eat today; if you teach me how to grow rice, I'll eat every day.

Let our lives be open books for all to study.

Keep your values positive, because your values become your destiny.

Let the villages of the future live in our imagination, so that we might one day come to live in them!

There is no path to peace; peace is the path.

The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die.

The Vedas are as indefinable as God and Hinduism.

Self-defense...is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation.

The restoration of free speech, free association and free press is almost the whole Swaraj.

If physical fasting is not accompanied by mental fasting it is bound to end in hypocrisy and disaster.

The world is big enough to satisfy everyones needs, but will always be too small to satisfy everyones greed.

Your words become your actions, your actions become your habits.

The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.

The greatest menace to the world today is the growing, exploiting, irresponsible imperialism.

Rama, Allah and God are to me convertible terms.

What is life worth without trials and tribulations which are the salt of life.

God answers prayer in His own way, not ours.

Kashmir is the real test of secularism in India.

For me, Rama and Rahim are one and the same deity.

Every fight is one between different angles of vision illuminating the same truth.

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

The lives of Zoroaster, Jesus and Mohammed, as I have understood them, have illumined many a passage in the Gita.

Make injustice visible.

Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.

I have recognized that the nation has the right, if it so wills, to vindicate her freedom even by actual violence.

The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.

My effort should never be to undermine another's faith but to make him a better follower of his own faith.

Everything that we do is insignificant...and...it is very important that we do it!

Swaraj is our birthright. No one can deprive us of it unless we forfeit it ourselves.

Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.

Begin your day with prayer, and make it so soulful that it may remain with you until the evening.

Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.

Cowardice is incompatible with divine wisdom.

Real beauty is my aim.

Wildlife is decreasing in the jungles, but it is increasing in the towns.

Free, open love I have looked upon as dog's love. Secret love is, besides, cowardly.

All sins are committed in secrecy. The moment we realize that God witnesses even our thoughts, we shall be free.

Hand-spinning is designed to put millions of rupees in the hands of the poor villagers.

Khaddar brings a ray of hope to the widow's broken-up home.

Purity of life is the highest and truest art.

Fearlessness presupposes calmness and peace of mind.

A vow imparts stability, ballast and firmness to one's character.

There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.

The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies.

To shirk taking of vows betrays indecision and want of resolution.

The spinning wheel is a symbol of nonviolence for me.

A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature.

Islam appeals to people because it appeals also to reason.

Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face.

The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton.

If my nonviolence is to be contagious and infectious, I must acquire greater control over my thoughts.

Swaraj, without any qualifying clause, includes that which is better than the best one can conceive or have today.

The path is the goal.

There is no greater spellbinder of peace than the name of God.

My Hinduism must be a very poor thing if it cannot flourish even under the most adverse influence.

You have the choice to create the life your heart is yearning to live.

A seeker of truth will never begin by discounting his opponent's statement as unworthy of trust.

My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention.