Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Fighting

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Inspirational, Peace

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Gandhigrams”

• Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Strength, Leadership

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Running, Lying, Fighting

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, Vision, Different

• Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, Choices, Patriotism

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.99, A&C Black

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, Numbers, Delight

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.54, Courier Corporation

• No reform is possible unless some of the educated and the rich voluntarily accept the status of the poor, travel third, refuse to enjoy the amenities denied to the poor and, instead of taking avoidable hardships, discourtesies and injustice as a matter of course, fight for their removal.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, Justice, Reform

  Mahatma Gandhi, General Press (2014). “My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.578, GENERAL PRESS

• I am not fighting machinery as such, but the madness of thinking that machinery saves labor. Men save labor until thousands of them are without work and die of hunger on the streets. I want to secure employment and livelihood not only to part of the human race, but for all. I will not have the enrichment of a few at the expense of the community. At present the machine is helping a small minority to live on the exploitation of the masses. The motive force of this minority is not humanity or love of their kind, but greed and avarice.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, Men, Thinking

• Celebration of Independence Day with great pomp and show was quite appropriate when we were fighting for independence which we had neither seen nor handled. Now we have handled it and we seem to be disillusioned. At least - I am, even if you are not. What are we celebrating today? Surely, not our disillusionment.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, Hypocrisy, Independence

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Atheist, Believe, Fighting

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  War, Fighting, Two Nations

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.85, A&C Black

• I learned from my illiterate but wise mother that all rights to be deserved and preserved came from duty well done. Thus the very right to live accrues to us only when we do the duty of citizenship of the world. From this one fundamental statement, perhaps it is easy enough to define the duties of Man and Woman and correlate every right to some corresponding duty to be first performed. Every other right can be shown to be a usurpation hardly worth fighting for.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wise, Mother, Fighting

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Supplementary volume”

• A nation that is unfit to fight cannot, from experience, prove the virtue of not fighting.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, Virtue, Prove

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.105, Tara Publishing

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, Prisoner, Strict

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

• If fighting for the legislatures meant a sacrifice of truth and nonviolence, democracy would not be worth a moment's purchase.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, Sacrifice, Democracy

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Gandhiji Expects: What the Father of the Nation Expected of People's Representatives”

• Could there be a greater proof of our cowardice than fighting amongst ourselves?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, Coward, Proof

  Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Communal Unity”

• A soldier fights with an irresistible strength when he has blown up his bridges and burnt his boats. Even so, it is with a soldier of ahimsa.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, Bridges, Soldier

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

• The Congress fights not with violent but with nonviolent means, however imperfect, however crude the nonviolence may be.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Fighting, May

  Mahatma Gandhi (1944*). “Gandhi Against Fascism”

• Far better than emasculation would be the bravery of those who use physical force. Far better than cowardice would be meeting one's death fighting.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, Bravery, Coward

  Mahatma Gandhi, U. R. Rao (1963). “The Way to Communal Harmony”, Ahmedabad, [India] : Navajivan Publishing House

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, Today, Language

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

• The fight of satyagraha is for the strong in spirit, not the doubter or the timid. Satyagraha teaches us the art of living as well as dying.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Art, Strong, Fighting

  Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Communal Unity”

• The one condition for fighting for peace and liberty is to acquire self-restraint.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, Self, Liberty

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, India, Language

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Gandhigrams”

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, Satyagraha, Ready

• Anything which is a hindrance to the fight of the soul is a delusion and a snare, even like the body which often does hinder you in the path of salvation.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, Soul, Doe

  Mahatma Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Truth and Non-Violence”, Clarendon Press

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