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Religion is never opposed to economics, but is always ranged against profits. -Gandhi, Ashram Observances in Action https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

There is not a single virtue that aims at, or is content with, the welfare of the individual alone. Conversely, there is not a single offense which does not, directly or indirectly, affect many others besides the actual offender. -Gandhi, Ethical Religion https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic. -Gandhi, January 18, 1922 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

To have a conviction that there is violence or sin in a certain course of conduct is one thing; to have the power of acting up to such a conviction is quite another. -Gandhi, Satyagraha in South Africa https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

When there is no desire for fruit, there is also no temptation for untruth or himsa. -Gandhi, Mahatma, Vol. 2 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

We must therefore purge ourselves of hatred. -Gandhi, Quit India speech, August 9, 1942 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

I may tell you that I am constantly evolving, and the application of my principles is ever widening. -Gandhi, Mahatma, Vol. 4 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Science of war leads one to dictatorship, pure and simple. Science of nonviolence alone can lead one to pure democracy. -Gandhi, October 15, 1938 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Khadi has been conceived as the foundation and image of ahimsa. A real khadi wearer will not utter an untruth. A real khadi wearer will harbor no violence, no deceit, no impurity. -Gandhi, Mahatma, Vol. 4 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

It must be taken for granted that when civil disobedience has started, my arrest is a certainty. It is therefore necessary to consider what should be done when the event takes place. -Gandhi, Young India, February 27, 1930

Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of humankind. -Gandhi, July 20, 1931 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

None can be born untouchable, as all are sparks of one and the same fire. -Gandhi, From Yeravda Mandir https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

The best way to show how to do it is to do it myself. -Gandhi, Young India, October 23, 1924 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

My faith in human nature is irrepressible, and even under the circumstances of a most adverse character. -Gandhi, Young India, January 1, 1920 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

The foundation that Macaulay laid of education has enslaved us. -Gandhi, Hind Swaraj https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

I hold that as the largest part of our time is devoted to labor for earning our bread, our children must from their infancy be taught the dignity of such labor. -Gandhi, Young India, September 1, 1921 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

It is no easy task to restrain the fury of a people incensed by a deep sense of wrong. -Gandhi, Young India, May 5, 1920. https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Means and ends are convertible terms in my philosophy of life. -Gandhi, Young India, December 26, 1924. https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

In concrete terms, the independence should be political, economic, and moral. -Gandhi’s Dialog with Christianity. https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Experience has taught me that it is a mistake hastily to imagine that anything we cannot understand is necessarily wrong. -Gandhi’s Dialog with Christianity. https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

I want you also to grow with me. -Mahatma, Volume 4. https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

But I know that I have still before me a difficult path to traverse. I must reduce myself to zero. So long as one does not of his own free will put himself last among his fellow creatures, there is no salvation for him. -Gandhi, Autobiography, The Story of My Experiments with Truth. https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

The reader can have no idea of the restraint I have to exercise from week to week in the choice of topics and my vocabulary. It is a training for me. -Gandhi, Young India, July 2, 1925. https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation.  -Gandhi, Mahatma, Volume V. https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

There is a law of nature that a thing can be retained by the same means by which it has been acquired. -Gandhi, Satyagraha in South Africa. https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony