Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Property

• Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Giving, Fame

  Mahatma Gandhi (1970). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

• Nonviolent defence presupposes recklessness about one's life and property.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Defence, Nonviolence, Property

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

• I own no property and yet I feel that I am perhaps the richest man in the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, World, Feels

  Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Young India, 1924-1926”

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Educational, Character

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.226, Rajpal & Sons

• Woman is the embodiment of sacrifice and suffering and her advent to public life should, therefore, result in purifying it, in restraining unbridled ambition and accumulation of property.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Women, Ambition, Sacrifice

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.229, Oxford University Press

• I see neither bravery nor sacrifice in destroying life or property, for offense or defense.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Freedom, Sacrifice, Bravery

• The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Long, Democracy, Doe

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.347, Rajpal & Sons

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