Mean Quotes - Page 951

Swaraj for me means freedom for the meanest of countrymen.

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

Every reform means awakening. Once truly awakened, the nation will not be satisfied with reform only in one department of life.

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

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

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

It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their armlessness into the central means for deliverance.

The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification.

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

India's coming into her own will mean every nation doing likewise.

The only way Hinduism can convert the whole world to cow-protection is by giving an object-lesson in cow-protection and all it means.

Shraddha means self-confidence and self-confidence means faith in God.

Complete independence through truth and non-violence means the independence of every unit, be it the humblest of the nation, without distinction of race, colour or creed.

I have in my life never been guilty of saying things I did not mean - my nature is to go straight to the heart and if often I fail in doing so for the time being, I know that Truth ultimately makes itself heard and felt, as it has often done in my experience.

It is better to resist oppression by violent means than to submit, but it is best of all to resist by nonviolent means.

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

Equality of sexes does not mean equality of occupations.

A successful search for truth means complete deliverance from the dual throng, such as of love and hate, happiness and misery.

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

Swaraj means even under dominion status a capacity to declare independence at will.

Swaraj of a people means the sum total of the Swaraj (self-rule) of individuals.

The right to err, which means the freedom to try experiments, is the universal condition of all progress.

Swaraj means, a state such that we can maintain our separate existence without the presence of the English.

By patriotism I mean the welfare of the whole people, if I secure it at the hands of my opponent, I should bow down my head to him.

He who gives up action falls. He who gives up the reward rises. But renunciation of fruit in no way means indifference to the result.