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Quotations of Mahatma
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Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78) lead India to
independence using non-violent means. Indians refer to him as Mahatma Gandhi whichmeans great soul. Martin Luther King later used these same techniques to fight for black
civil rights in the USA.
I have always felt a special kinship with Gandhi. He was assassinated on 1948-01-30 by a
Hindu fanatic. As he was dying he blessed his assassin. I was born five days later, just
missing any chance to even hear him on the radio. Gandhi inspired Martin Luther King.And King in turn inspired me in my work with gay liberation in the 1970s. When I
started, 95% of the gays were against me and 100% of the straights. I figured it waspointless, but I wanted to make a token gesture of defiance anyway. In only two years we
had the first gay rights legislation.
When I went to India in 1985 I met Gandhis godson, a wealthy industrialist who owned
a automobile, washing machine, manufacturing company calledTata He told me whatit was like as a boy living with Gandhi. Later he let me spend an afternoon in his private
museum of Gandhi memorabilia. On that trip a woman gave me an uncopyrighted little
book called Quotes of Gandhi. Here I share with you from that book and other sources.
I find Gandhis and Kings obsession with God somewhat embarrassing. However, thatbelief was central to their thinking, so I dont censor it here.
Action Freedom Asceticism
Truth Evil Prosletysing
Non-Violence Equality Education
Animal Rights Love Metaphysics and Religion
Courage Friendship Faith
Doubt Wealth Prayer
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Conscience Armament
Present Humility
Action
Before you do anything, stop and recall the face of the poorest mosthelpless destitute person you have seen and ask yourself, Is what I am
about to do going to help him?
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in theirmission can alter the course of history.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do
it.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Its the action, not the fruit of the action, thats important. You have to do
the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, thattherell be any fruit. But that doesnt mean you stop doing the right thing.
You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do
nothing, there will be no result.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Glory lies in the attempt to reach ones goal and not in reaching it.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
We must become the change we want to see in the world.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Be the change that you want to see in the world.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Be the planetary citizen you want everyone else to be.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We
can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all tostudy.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation withgood.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full
victory.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
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Action expresses priorities.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
For me the present is merged in eternity. I may not sacrifice the latter forthe present.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies ofthe human frame.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Consciously or unconsciously, everyone of us does render some service
or another. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our
desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and it will make not only forour own happiness, but that of the world at large.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not theshadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he
or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
I claim to be no more than an average person with less than average
ability. I have not the shadow of doubt that any man or woman can
achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivatethe same hope and faith.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real
war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
A person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see hisgoal; he sees only his opposition and the obstacles before him.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Service that is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the
served. But all other pleasures as possessions pale into nothingness before
service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
A true soldier does not argue as he marches, how success is going to be
ultimately achieved. But he is confident that if he only plays his humble
part well, somehow or other the battle will be won. In is that spirit thatevery one of us should act. It is not given to us to know the future. But it is
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given to everyone of us to know how to do our own part well.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Truth
Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of
ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor
does truth become error because nobody sees it.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches
violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often
come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everythingin the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who
represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. Hewho is angry is guilty of Himsa.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects,
unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
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Breach of promise is no less an act of insolvency than a refusal to pay
ones debt.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and
leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for the confession.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Violence and Non-violence
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless,
whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism
or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
The good man is the friend of all living things.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Peace is its own reward.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is onlytemporary; the evil it does is permanent.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal
to the brain.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I aman uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest
of causes.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries
stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is
momentary.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to
kill.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
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Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the
heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on ones opponent.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a
true democratic spirit.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the
world and to India herself.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome
of untruth & violence. Even if my belief is a fond delusion, it will beadmitted that it is a fascinating delusion.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Violent men have not be known in history to die to a man. They die up toa point.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Non-violence is not a quality to be evolved or expressed to order. It is aninward growth depending for sustenance upon intense individual effort.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Animal Rights
To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a humanbeing. The more helpless the creature, the more that it is entitled to
protection by man from the cruelty of man.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Courage
Non-violence and cowardice are contradictory terms. Non-violence is thegreatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice. Non-violence springs from
love, cowardice from hate. Non-violence always suffers, cowardice would
always inflict suffering. Perfect non-violence is the highest bravery. Non-violent conduct is never demoralising; cowardice always is.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or lordliness. It consists indaring to do the right and facing consequences whether it is in matters
social, political or other. It consists in deeds, not words.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Better than cowardice is killing and being killed in battle.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of thebrave.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
A No uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a Yes merely
uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on
the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of
his brother, never by killing him.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body,
but you will never imprison my mind.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head thanto crawl on ones belly, in order to be able to save ones head.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Let no one charge me with ever having abused or encouraged weakness
or surrendered on matters of principle. But I have said, as I say again, that
every trifle must not be dignified into a principle.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Anger is the enemy of Ahimsa [non-violence] and pride is a monster
swallows it up.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust
for martyrdom.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
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I am but a poor struggling soul yearning to be wholly good, wholly
truthful and wholly non-violent in thought, word and deed, but ever failing
to reach the ideal which I know to be true. It is a painful climb, but thepain of it is a positive pleasure to me. Each step upwards makes me feel
stronger and fit for the next.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Principle
My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the
human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is theguardian of his or her self-respect and liberty, and that this defence
prevails though the world be against the individual resister.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like
us cannot practice perfection, we devise every moment limits of its
compromise in practice.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Conscience
There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all,
i.e. the voice of conscience even though such obedience may cost many abitter tear, and even more, separation from friends, from family, from thestate, to which you may belong, from all that you have held as dear as life
itself. For this obedience is the law of our being.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must beunaffected by outside circumstances.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Dont listen to friends when the Friend inside you says Do this.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live
forever.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still
small voice of conscience.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
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There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of
conscience. It supersedes all other courts.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought,
word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and makestrong progress towards it.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an
indomitable will.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation fromthe straight path.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Self-respect known no considerations.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be read must beunaffected by outside circumstances.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Present
I do not want to forsee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the
present. God has given me no control over the moment following.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Freedom
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has
not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Evil
The destructive Seven Blunders of the World that cause violence:
1. Wealth without work.
2. Pleasure without conscience.3. Knowledge without character.
4. Commerce without morality.
5. Science without humanity.
6. Religion without sacrifice.7. Politics without principle.
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~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed shouldcall forth approbation and a wicked deed dis-approbation, the doer of the
deed, whether good or wicked always deserves respect or pity as the casemay be. Hate the sin and not the sinner is a precept which though easy
enough to understand is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison ofhatred spreads in the world.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere
enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
The moment there is suspicion about a persons motives, everything he
does becomes tainted.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
A man who broods on evil is as bad a man who does evil, if he is no
worse.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute hasno such thing. It is not a free agent, and knows no distinction between
virtue and vice, good and evil. Man, being a free agent, knows these
distinctions, and when he follows his higher nature, shows himself far
superior to the brute, but when he follows his baser nature can showhimself lower than the brute.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Equality
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves
honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Woman in the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacities.
She has the right to participate in the minutest details in the activities ofman, an she has equal right to liberty of freedom and liberty with him.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Commonsense is a realised sense of proportion.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of
no one race or religion.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
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Love
It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e. hate, rules us
we would have become extinct long ago. And yet, the tragedy of it is thatthe so-called civilised men and nations conduct themselves as if the basis
of society was violence.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Hatred ever kills, Love never dies, such is the vast difference between thetwo. What is ordained by love is retained for all time. What is obtained by
hatred proves a burden in reality, for it increases hatred.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Where there is love there is life.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
It may be long before the law of love will be recognised in internationalaffairs. The machineries of government stand between and hide the heartsof one people from those of another.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid
knowledge that the one that much be loved is not a friend. There is nomerit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
The only way love punishes in by suffering.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Justice that love gives is a surrender; justice that law gives is apunishment.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the
other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times moreeffective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents, neverrevenges itself.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Where love is, there God is also.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to themeeting of hearts?
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Friendship
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every village.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face onemust be able to love the meanest of creation as oneself. And a man who
aspires after that cannot afford to keep out of any field of life. That is whymy devotion to Truth has drawn me into the field of politics; and I can say
without the slightest hesitation, and yet in all humility, that those who saythat religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion
means.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78) My
Experiments With Truth
Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so
do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the
latter my be.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless,
whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism
or the holy name of liberty or democracy?~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
It would conduce to national progress and save a great deal of time and
trouble if we cultivated the habit of never supporting the resolutions either
by speaking or voting for them if we had not either the intention or theability to carry them out.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles ustoday like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter
how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know whatreligion is.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
What do I think of Western civilisation? I think it would be a very goodidea.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and
humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered,
and conducted wars, war criminals? War criminals are not confined to theAxis Powers alone. Roosevelt and Churchill are no less war criminals than
Hitler and Mussolini. England, America and Russia have all of them got
their hands dyed more or less red - not merely Germany and Japan.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Nations are born out of travail and suffering
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
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I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides an my windows to be
stuffed. I wan the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as
freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any. I refuse tolive in other peoples houses as an interloper, a beggar or a slave.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men,
who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfillment.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
This campaign of non-cooperation has no reference to diplomacy, secret
or open. The only diplomacy it admits of is the statement and pursuance of
truth at any cost.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight
compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react uponone another.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportionas you subdue the flesh.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted byabolition of forms. It requires a change of heart.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the
welfare of his fellow men.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Debate and Struggle
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then
you win.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
An opponent is entitled to the same regard for his principles as we would
expect others to have for ours. Non-violence demands that we should see
every opportunity to win over opponents.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Indeed ones faith in ones plans and methods is truly tested when the
horizon before one is the blackest.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
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Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Non-cooperation is an attempt to awaken the masses, to a sense of theirdignity and power. This can only be done by enabling them to realise that
they need not fear brute force, if they but know the soul within.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Public opinion alone can keep a society pure and healthy.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Non-cooperation is beyond the reach of the bayonet. It has found an
abiding place in the Indian heart. Workers like me will go when the hour
has struck, but non-cooperation will remain.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Non-cooperation is directed not against men but against measures. It isnot directed against the Governors, but against the system they administer.
The roots of non-cooperation lies not in hatred but in justice if not inlove.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Insistence on truth can come into play when one party practices untruth
or injustice. Only then can love be tested. True friendship is put to the testonly when one party disregards the obligation of friendship.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
You dont have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stopreading them.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
If we want to cultivate a true spirit of democracy we cannot afford to be
intolerant. Intolerance betrays want of faith in ones cause.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold onto it. It comes
without seeking and is retained without effort.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance andassimilation.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
It is quite proper to resist and attack a system, but to resist and attack its
author is tatamount to resisting and attacking oneself, for we are all tarredwith the same brush, and are children of one and the same Creator, and as
such the divine powers within us are infinite. To slight a single human
being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only thatBeing, but with Him, the whole world.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
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If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain
conditions is equally a duty.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
I believe that cunning is not only morally wrong but also politically
expedient, and have therefore always discountenanced its use even fromthe practical standpoint.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the
masters bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to atoms and evenkill me. He will then have my dead body, not my obedience. Ultimately,
therefore, it is I who am the victor and not he, for he has failed in getting
me to do what he wanted done.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Armament
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look
upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Humility
The only virtue I want to claim is truth and non-violence. I lay no claim
to super-human powers. I want none. I wear the same corruptible flesh thatthe weakest of my fellow beings wears, and am therefore as liable to err as
any. My services have many limitations, but God has up to now blessed
them in spite of the imperfections.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal.
I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to
retrace my steps.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
The first condition of humaneness is a little humility and a little
diffidence about the correctness of ones conduct and a little
receptiveness.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
It is mans social nature which distinguishes him from the brute creation.
If it is his privilege to be independent , it is equally his duty to be inter-
dependent. Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent ofeverybody else and be self-contained.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
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Asceticism
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plain living and high thinking
the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Mans happiness reallylies in contentment.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
As a rule, the mind, residing in a body that has become weakened by
pampering, is also weak, and where there is no strength of mind there canbe no strength of soul.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in
any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Suffering cheerfully endured, ceases to be suffering and is transmutedinto an ineffable joy.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
I am a Puritan myself, but I am catholic toward others.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
I would rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become
less than beasts by making the noblest of Gods creation, woman, theobject of our lust.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
No sacrifice is worth the name unless it is a joy. Sacrifice and a long face
go ill together. Sacrifice is making sacred. He must be a poor specimenof humanity who is in need of sympathy for his sacrifice.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Prosletysing
We do not need to prosletyse either by our speech or by our writing. Wecan only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to
study.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Education
Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound
character.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve
anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come by mere
academic argument and appeal to reason and logic. Discipline is learnt in
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the school of adversity.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Metaphysics and Religion
I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seekingafter Him. I am prepared to sacrifice the things dearest to me in pursuit of
this quest. Even if the sacrifice demanded by very life, I hope I may be
prepared to give it.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. That strength
may be physical or of the heart or, if we do not fight shy of the word, of
the spirit. Strength of the heart connotes soul-force. Let it be rememberedthat physical force is transitory, even as the body is transitory. But the
power of spirit is permanent even as the spirit is everlasting.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
The badge of the violent is his weapon, spear, sword or rifle. God is the
shield of the non-violent.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reason,will survive the coming reconstruction of society in which the values will
have changed and character, not possession of wealth, title or birth, will be
the test of merit.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no
such thing as religion over-riding morality. Man, for instance, cannot be
untruthful, cruel or incontinent and claim to have God on his side.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects
of the same state. There is as little reason to deplore the one as there is to
be pleased over the other.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts,but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
It is through truth & non-violence that I can have some glimpse of God.Truth & non-violence are my God. They are the obverse and reverse of the
same coin.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe isendlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything
your heart desires must come to you.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
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Faith must be enforced by reason when faith becomes blind it dies.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are sounlike your Christ.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and
what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our lifeis a long and arduous quest after Truth.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Infinite striving to be the best is mans duty; it is its own reward.
Everything else is in Gods hands.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion.
It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God aswitness.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to themexcept in the form of bread.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Whenever I see an erring man, I say to myself I have also erred; when I
see a lustful man I say to myself, so was I once; and in this way I feelkinship with everyone in the world and feel that I cannot be happy without
the humblest of us being happy.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want ofvalour is want of religious faith.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrantabandonment of ones own religion.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at
will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and
ages.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the
Eternal and become merely a lump of clay in the Potters divine hands so
that my service may become more certain because uninterrupted by thebaser self in me.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
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The spirit of non-violence necessarily leads to humility. Non-violence
means reliance on God, the rock of ages. If we would seek his aid, we
must approach Him with a humble and contrite heart.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even ifthere be no public support. It is self-sustained.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my
soul expands in the worship of the creator.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest toevery man, even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical
comparison.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
In nature there is a fundamental unity running through all the diversitywe see about us. Religions are given to mankind so as to accelerate the
process of realisation of fundamental unity.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
I believe in absolute oneness of God and therefore also of humanity.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
My trust is solely in God. And I trust men only because I trust God. If I
had no God to rely upon, I should be like Timon, a hater of my species.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Ones own religion is after all a matter between oneself and ones Maker
and no one elses.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help tosolve them is no religion.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the
acid test of reason and universal assent.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
God tries his votaries through and through but never beyond endurance.
He gives them strength enough to go through the ordeal he prescribes for
them.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
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It is easy enough to say, I do not believe in God. For God permits all
things to be said of Him with impunity. he looks at our acts. And any
breach of His Law carries with it, not its vindictive, but it purifying,compelling punishment.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Human society is a ceaseless growth, and unfoldment in terms of
spirituality.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a
living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same
to us all.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
I have found by experience that man makes his plans to be upset by God,but, at the same time, where the ultimate goal is the search of truth, on
matter how a mans plans are frustrated the issue is never injurious and
often better than anticipated.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
A clean confession combined with a promise never to commit the sin
again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest
type of repentance.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a
sound education.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Perfection is the exclusive attribute of God, and it is indescribable,untranslatable. I do believe that it is possible for human beings to become
perfect, even as God is perfect. It is necessary for all of us to aspire after
that perfection but when that blessed state is attained, it becomeindescribable, indefinable.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation
if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Of all the animal creations of God, main is the only animal who has been
created in order that he may know his Maker. Mans aim is life is not
therefore to add from day to day to his material prospects and to hismaterial possessions, but his predominant calling is, from day to day to
come nearer to his own Maker.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
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Humour
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
Imitation is the sincerest flattery.~ Mahatma Gandhi (born: 1869-10-02 died: 1948-01-30 at age: 78)
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