Banker

• Even as a banker cannot run a bank if he has nothing in his chest, so can a general not lead battle if he has no soldiers on whom he can rely implicitly.

T-G-31

Basic Education

• Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or villages, to all that is best and lasting in India.

• The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children though the medium of a handicraft.

EWE-24

Beast

• Every species, human and subhuman, has some distinguishing mark, so that you can tell a man from a beast, or a dog from a cow.

T-3-280

Beauty

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

• There is a beauty and an art in simplicity which he who runs may see.

• When I admire the wonder of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in worship of the Creator.

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

• To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.

• People generally fail to see beauty in truth, the ordinary man runs away from it and becomes blind to the beauty in it.

• Truth is the first thing to be sought for, and Beauty and Goodness will then be added unto you.

XXV-255

Bhagavadgita (Gita)

• The Gita, is not for those who have no faith.

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

• The Gita distinguishes between the powers of light and darkness and demonstrates their incompatibility.

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

• Salvation of the Gita is perfect peace.

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Self-realization is the object of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures.

• The object of the Gita appears to me to be that of showing the most excellent way to attain self-realization.

• The message of the Gita is to be found in the second chapter of the Gita where Lord Krishna speaks of the balanced state of mind, of mental equipoise.

• Time is wealth, and the Gita says the Great Annihilator annihilates those who waste time.

• According to the letter of the Gita, it is possible to say that warfare is consistent with renunciation of fruit.

• The path of bhakti, karma and love as expounded in the Gita leaves no room for the despising of man by man.

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

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

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

• I find a solace in the Bhagavad-Gita and Upanishads that I miss even in the Sermon on the Mount.

• The Gita has become for me the key to the scriptures of the world.

• Let the Gita be to you a mine of diamonds, as it has been to me: let it be your constant guide and friend no life’s way.

• The object of the Gita appears to me to be that of showing the most excellent say to attain self-realization.

• My life has been full of external tragedies and it they have not left any visible effect on me, I owe it to the teaching of the Bhagavad-Gita.

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

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

• Untouchability I hold is a sin, if Bhagavad-Gita is one of out Divine Books.

• In order that knowledge may not run riot, the author of the Gita has insisted on devotion accompanying it and has given it the first place.

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

• The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary.

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

• The seeker is at liberty to extract from this treasure any meaning he likes, So as to enable him to enforce in his life the central teaching.

• To one who reads the spirit of the Gita, it teaches the secret of non-violence, the secret of realizing self through the physical body.

• What the Sermon* describes in a graphic manner, the Bhagavadgita reduces to a scientific formula.

• To those who are innocent of nonviolence, the Gita does not teach a lesson despair.

MOG-17

Birth

• Birth and death are no two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state.

• The whole world is in the throes of new birth. Anything done for a temporary gain would be tantamount to an abortion.

T-5-226

Birth Control

• Self-control is the surest and the only method of regulating the birthrate. Birth control by contraceptives is race suicide.

T-2-226

Blame

• Blaming the wolf would not help the sheep much. The sheep Must learn not to fall into the clutches of the wolf.

T-5-10

Bolshevism

See Communism

Bone

• Every bone picked up is valuable raw material from which useful articles can be made or which can be crushed into rich manure.

T-4-17

Boycott

• Boycott brought about anyhow of British cloth cannot yield the same results as such boycott brought about by hand spinning and khaddar.

• So long as we have to rely on the pins and the needles, figurative and literal, we cannot bring about a complete boycott of foreign goods.

• I boycott foreign goods, not foreign ability.

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

• If the people resolve and carry out this programme of boycott and swadeshi, they would not have to wait for Swaraj even for a year.

T-2-27

Brahmins-Brahminism

• The Brahmin is the finest flower of Hinduism and humanity. I will do nothing to whither it.

• Brahmins are born, not so Brahminism. It is a quality open to be cultivated by the lowliest or the lowest among us.

• A true Brahmin should be the very image of humility and not be proud of his knowledge or wisdom.

• A Brahmin was hardly worth the name, if he did not have the courage of his convictions.

• The Brahmin’s duty is to look after the sanitation of the soul, the bhangi’s that of the body of society.

• Where is the real Brahmin today, content with a bare living and giving all his time to study and teaching?

• I have the highest reverence for Brahminism, under which a class has been set apart from generation to generation for the exclusive pursuit of divine knowledge and consigned to voluntary poverty.

T-3-195

• I would not have the non-Brahmins to rise on the ruin of the Brahmins.

XXVI-331

• Swear all you are worth, if you like, against Brahmins, but never against Brahminism.

T-2-283

• The ideal bhangi of my conception would be a brahmin par excellence, possibly even excel him.

T-4-104

Brave-Bravery

• Bravery is not man’s monopoly.

MM-297

• Bravery is not a quality of the body, it is of the soul.

MM-61

• Nonviolence is the summit of bravery.

T-2-131

• Bravery on the battlefield is impossible for us. Bravery of the soul still remains open to us.

T-5-128

• I see neither bravery nor sacrifice in destroying life or property for offence or defence.

T-6-67

• Mere brave speech without action is letting off useless steam.

T-2-325

• True paurusha, true bravery, consists in deriving out the brute in us.

XV-157

• Unexampled bravery, born of nonviolence, coupled with strict honesty shown by a fair number of Muslims, was sure to infect the whole of India.

T-8-176

• The art of dying bravely and with honour does not need any special training, save a living faith in God.

MM-302

• For thousands to do to death a few hundreds is no bravery. It is worse than cowardice. It is unworthy of nationalism, of any religion.

T-4-252

• Active non-violence of the brave puts to flight thieves, dacoits, murderers, and prepares an army of volunteers ready to sacrifice themselves in quelling riots, in extinguishing fires and feuds, and so on.

T-4-257

• Non-violence is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and the bravest.

T-4-253

• There can be no friendship between cowards, or cowards and brave men.

XXV-436

• The man or the woman who can display this non-violence of the brave can easily stand against an external invasion.

T-5-298

• Those who are truthful, nonviolent and brave do not cease to be so because to the stupidity of their leader.

T-5-128

• Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don’t go together any more than water and fire.

T-5-189

• Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly.

T-7-128

• The history of the world is full of instances of men who rose to leadership by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.

T-3-23

• A straight fight in an equal battle takes some bravery, but braver is he who, knowing that he would have to sacrifice ninety-five as against five of the enemy, faces death.

T-5-111

• Far better than emasculation would be bravery of those who use physical force.

T-4-237

British

- See Englishman

Brother – Brotherhood

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

• I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human. But I want to realize identity for the purpose of weaning him from the evil habit.

• A teetotaller would regard it as his duty to associate with his drunkard brother for the purpose of weaning him from the evil habit.

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

• I have never in my life regarded anyone as my servant, but as a brother or a sister.

T-2-279

Brute – Brute Force

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

• The only thing that separates us from the brute, with which we have so much in common, is the capacity to distinguish between right and wrong.

• The spirit lies dormant in the brute, and he knows no law but that of physical might.

• True paurusha, true bravery, consists in driving out the brute in us.

• We are no better than the brutes until we have purged ourselves of the sins we have committed against our weaker brethren.

• ‘Tit for tat’ is the law of the brute of unregenerate man.

• To answer brutality with brutality was to admit one’s moral and intellectual bankruptcy.

• Human nature will only find itself when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or brutal.

• The Germans were defeated not because they were necessarily in the wrong, but because the allied powers were found to possess greater brute strength.

• Brute is the only test the West has hitherto recognized.

T-2-20

Buddha – Buddhism

• Buddha never rejected Hinduism, but he broadened its base. He gave it a new life and a new interpretation.

• Buddha renounced every worldly happiness because be wanted to share with the whole world his happiness which was to be had by men who sacrificed and suffered in the search for truth.

• Buddha emphasised and re-declared the eternal an unalterable existence of the moral government of this universe. He unhesitatingly said that the law was God Himself.

• For Asia to be not for Asia but the whole world, it has to re-learn the message of the Buddha and deliver it to the world.

• I know that Buddhism is to Hinduism what Protestantism is to Roman Catholicism, only in much stronger light, in a much greater degree.

• I do not believe that "My philosophy " is an indifferent mixture of Tolstoy and Buddha.

• If there was any teacher in the world who insisted upon the inexorable law of cause and effect, it was Gautama, and yet my friends, the Buddhists outside India, would, if they could, avoid the effects of their own acts.

• Buddhism is one long prayer.

T-5-148

Calamity

• There is a divine purpose behind every physical calamity.

TIG-24

Capital – Capitalism

• No doubt, capital is lifeless, but not the capitalists who are amenable to conversion.

Castles In The Air

• A cave-dweller can build castles in the air, whereas a dweller in a palace like Janak** has no castles to build.

MM-7

Cattle

• The half-starved condition of the majority of our cattle is a disgrace to us.

T-2-132

Celibacy

• Celibacy is a great help, inasmuch as it enables one to lead a life of full surrender to God.

XXV-252

• What is Brahmacharya? It is the way of life, which leads us to Brahma (God).

T-8-1

• Brahmacharya means control of the senses in thought, word and deed.

TIG-126

• Grihasthashrama is the fair fruit of brahmacharya in life for a series of years.

XXVI-375

Changeless

• To me I seem to be constantly growing. I must respond to varying conditions, yet remain changeless within.

T-2-202

Character

• Character alone will have real effect on masses.

T-3-243

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

XXVI-29

• What will tell in the end will be character and not a knowledge of letters.

XXVI-294-5

• A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

EWE-18

• Men of stainless character and self-purification will easily inspire confidence and automatically purity the atmosphere around them.

TIG-57

• Sorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily borne, but not if they are imposed.

T-3-122

• A dissolute character is more dissolute in thought than in deed, and the same is true of violence.

T-5-116

• If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.

T-3-234

• The real property that a parent can transmit to all equally is his or her character and educational facilities.

T-2-367

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

T-2-364

• If you will express the requisite purity of character in action, you cannot do it better than through the spinning wheel.

T-2-377

• All your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be vain if at the same time you do not build your character and attain mastery over your thoughts and your actions.

T-2-376

• In the times to come the people will not judge us by the creed we profess or the label we wear or the slogans we shout but by our work, industry, sacrifice, honesty and purity of character.

T-8-8

• Whatever may be the pros and cons of going to the public theatre, it is a patent fact that it has undermined the morals and ruined the character of many a youth in this country.

TIG-57

Charkha (Spinning Wheel)

• Charkha is an instrument of service.

T-2-253

• The Charkha in the hands of a poor widow brings a paltry price to her, in the hands of Jawaharlal; it is an instrument of India’s freedom.

T-6-32

• The Charkha is an outward symbol of truth and nonviolence.

T-5-265

• The Charkha is intended to realize the essential and living oneness of interest among India’s myriads.

T-2-215

• The Charkha is the symbol of non-violence on which all life, if it is to be real life, must be based.

MM-405

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

T-2-277

• The Charkha supplemented the agriculture of the villagers and gave it dignity.

MM-408

• Seek ye first the Charkha and its concomitants and everything else will be added unto you.

T-2-263

• The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience.

XXV-587

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

T-5-24

• The turning of the Charkha in a lifeless way will be like the turning of the beads of the rosary with a wandering mind turned away from God.

T5-242

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

MM-405

• I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung.

T-2-63

• I crave to die with my hand at the spinning wheel.

MM-406

• I have called spinning the yarn of this age of India.

XXVI-298

• If Gandhism means simply mechanically turning the spinning wheel, it deserves to be destroyed.

T-5-242

• I have pinned my faith to the spinning wheel. On it, I believe, the salvation of this country depends.

XXV-523

• In my dream, in my sleep, while eating, I think of the spinning wheel. The spinning wheel is my sword. To me it is the symbol of India’s liberty.

XXV-351

• My heart is drawn backwards and forwards between spinning wheel and books.

T-2-108

• For every minute that I spin, there is in me the consciousness that I am adding to the nation’s wealth.

T-3-5

• The spinning wheel and the spinning wheel alone will solve, if anything will solve, the problem of the deepening poverty of India.

XXVI-292

• The spinning wheel means national consciousness and a contribution by every individual to a definite constructive national work.

XXVI-49

• The spinning wheel is a symbol of nonviolence for me.

T-5-290

• He who spins before the poor, inviting them to do likewise, serves God as no one else does.

TIG-136

• I would like to assure those who would serve Daridranarayana that there is music, art, economy and joy in the spinning wheel.

T-2-275

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

T-3-5

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

T-2-38

• The spinning wheel is the thing which all must turn in the Indian clime for the transition stage at any rate and the vast majority must for all time.

T-2-63

• The spinning wheel is itself an exquisite piece of machinery. My head daily bows in reverence to its unknown inventor.

XXV-476

• The spinning wheel for us is the foundation for all public corporate life.

XXV-74

• The spinning wheel is the auspicious symbol of sharir yajna, body labour.

XXV-56

• There is no better way of industrializing the villages of India than the spinning wheel.

T-2-246

• If you will express the requisite purity of character in action, you cannot do it better than through the spinning wheel.

T-2-377

• Every woman will tell the curious that with the disappearance of the spinning wheel vanished India’s happiness and prosperity.

T-2-38

• There is no "playing with truth" in the Charkha programme, for satyagraha is not predominantly civil disobedience but a quiet and irresistible pursuit of Truth.

XXV-587

• The socialism that India can assimilate is the socialism of the spinning wheel.

T-3-284

• The study of Indian economics is the study of the spinning wheel.

XXV-561

• The yajna of our age and for us is the spinning wheel.

T-2-247

• The foundation of service and your real training lie in spinning khaddar.

XXVI-378-9

• The restoration of spinning to its central place in India’s peaceful campaign for deliverance from the imperial yoke gives her women a special status.

T-5-206

• Without proper, careful organisation of the spinning wheel and khaddar, there is absolutely no civil disobedience.

XXVI-246

• There is a vital connection between satyagraha and Charkha, and the more I find that belief challenged, the more I am confirmed in it.

T-5-264

• The message of the spinning wheel is really to replace the spirit of exploitation by the spirit of service.

MM-404

• The music of the spinning wheel will be as balm to your soul.

MM-405

• Every window I have met has recognized in the wheel a dear forgotten friend.

T-2-38

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

T-2-63

• When the wheel was accepted as part of the national flag. It was surely implied that the spinning wheel would hum in every household.

T-3-300

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

MM-409

• If hand-spinning is an effective method of making India self-supporting, it must be made part of the franchise.

XXV-317

• My Swaraj takes note of bhangis, dheds, dublas and the weakest of the weak, and except the spinning wheel I know no other thing which befriends all these.

XXV-564

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

T-2-63

• Hunger is the argument that is driving India to the spinning wheel.

T-2-63

• India as a nation can live and die only for the spinning wheel.

T-2-38

• Just as there are signs by which you can recognize violence with the naked eye, so is the spinning wheel to me a decisive sign of nonviolence.

T-5-277

• Nothing can so quickly put the masses on their legs as the spinning wheel and all it means.

XXVI-538

• Restore the spinning wheel to its place and you will solve the problem of poverty.

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

T-2-229

• If the poet* span for half and hour daily, his poetry would gain in richness.

T-2-215
(The reference here is to poet Rabindranath Tagore).

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

T-3-300

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

T-7-381

• There is no yajna (sacrifice) greater than spinning calculated to bring peace to the troubled spirit, to soothe the distracted student’s mind, to spiritualize his life.

XXV-577

Chastity

• Chastity is one of the greatest disciplines without which the mind cannot attain requisite firmness.

X-52

• Chastity is not a hothouse growth.

T-2-249

Children

• Children wrapped up in cotton wool are not always proof against all temptation of contamination.

MM-281

• Our children should not be so taught as to despise labour.

EWE-20

• Basic education links the children, whether of the cities of villages, to all that is best and lasting in India.

EWE-24

• The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.

MM-423

• The greatest lessons in life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we should learn not from the grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children.

• Pestilence, wars and famines are cursed antidotes against cursed list which is responsible for unwanted children.

MM-285

Christ-Christianity

• Jesus was the most active resister known perhaps to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.

• Once Jesus had blazed the trail, his twelve disciples could carry on his mission without presence.

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

• Jesus, to me, is a great world teacher among others.

• The message of Jesus has proved ineffective because the environment was unready to receive it.

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

T-2-341

• It is a first class human tragedy that people of the earth who claim to believe in the message of Jesus, whom they describe as the Prince of Peace, show little of that belief in actual practice.

TIG-145

• Do not flatter yourselves with the belief that a mere recital of that celebrated verse in St. John makes a man a Christian.

TIG-68

• If I had to face only the Sermon on the Mount and my own interpretation of it, I should not hesitate to say, ‘O yes, I am a Christian.'

T-2-29

• I do not accept the orthodox teaching that Jesus was or is God incarnate in the accepted sense or that he was or it the only son of God.

XXV-85

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

BUNCH-110

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

XXV-521

• The Allah of Islam is the same as the God of Christians and the Ishwar of Hindus.

T-4-252

Citizenship

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

MM-378

• The emphasis laid on the principle of spending every minute of one’s life usefully is the best education for citizenship and, incidentally, it makes basic education self-sufficient.

EWE-24

Civil Disobedience

• Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.

T-6-13

• Civil disobedience can never be in general terms, such as for independence.

T-6-31

• Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority.

T-6-31

• Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.

T-5-96

• Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government, but that it is also a substitute for violence or armed rebellion.

T-3-153

• Civil disobedience is the inherent right of a citizen.

MM-166

• Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has becomes lawless or, which is the same thing, corrupt.

T-2-76

• Civil disobedience can only lead to strength and purity.

T-2-76

• Civil disobedience is a preparation for mute suffering.

T-2-84

• Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.

• Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence, directly or indirectly.

• Civil disobedience and excitement and intoxication go ill together.

• Individual civil disobedience was everybody’s inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life.

• Mass civil disobedience was for the attainment of independence.

• Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane.

• Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law.

• Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.

T-2-76

• In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed.

T-5-291

• Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.

T-2-52

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

XXVI-246

• Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation.

T-3-304

• Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art to civil or voluntary obedience.

T-4-10

• Active nonviolence is necessary for those who will offer civil disobedience but the will and proper training are enough for the people to co-operate with those who are chosen for civil disobedience.

T-5-281

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

XXV-489

• The charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience.

XXV-587

• Satyagraha does not begin and end with civil disobedience.

T-5-69

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

T-3-298

• The liberty of the press is a dear privilege apart from the advisability or otherwise of civil disobedience.

T-6-1

• When neglect of the call means a denial of God, civil disobedience becomes a peremptory duty.

T-2-52

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

T-3-218

• Ours is a civil fight, and imprisonment as a civil prisoner has got to be earned by the strict observance of the programme.

T-5-261

• If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done.

XXV-365

• For satyagraha and its offshoots, non co-operation and civil resistance are nothing but new names for the law of suffering.

T-2-5

• The privilege of resisting or disobeying a particular law or order accrues only to him who gives willing and unswerving obedience to the laws laid down for him.

T-5-99

Civilization

• Civilization have come and gone and, in spite of our vaunted progress. I am tempted to ask again and again, ‘To what purpose?’

T-2-29

• Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it.

X-21

• Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty.

X-37

• Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants.

MM-189

• This civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed.

X-21

• Is a civilization worth the name which requires for its existence the very doubtful prop of a racial legislation and a lynch law?

T-7-141

• Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise.

TIG-60

• The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.

XXVI-258

• Further march of civilization seems to employ increasing domination of man over beast, together with a growingly humane method of using them.

MM-426

• The British Government in India constitutes a struggle between the modern civilization, which is the kingdom of Satan, and the ancient civilization, which is the Kingdom of God.

X-189

• I want co-operation between nations for the salvaging of civilization, but co-operation presupposes free nations worthy of co-operation.

MM-316

• Civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organised for violence.

T-5-209

Civil Resistance

• In mass civil resistance leadership is essential; in individual civil resistance every resister is his own leader.

• The field of research is necessarily limited, as the occasions for civil resistance in a man’s life not be frequent.

T-3-297

Cleanliness

• It does not require money to be neat, clean and dignified.

• Members of a family will keep their house clean, but they will not be interested in the neighbour’s.

T-4-17

Coercion

• Coercion cannot but result in chaos in the end.

• The man who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.

T-7-61

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