Mahatma Gandhi Quotes - Page 112

• Freedom battles are not fought without paying heavy prices.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Freedom, Battle, Heavy

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will.

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  Freedom, Heart, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.57, New Directions Publishing

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• The English peace is the peace of the grave.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Graves

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.99, Hackett Publishing

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• Real power does not consist in the ability to inflict capital punishment upon the subjects, but in the will and the ability to protect the subjects against the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Power, Punishment

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• There is an indefinable mysterious Power that pervades everything.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Power, Mysterious, Indefinable

  Address at Kingsley Hall, delivered 17 October 1931, London

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• Whilst power, superimposed, always needs the help of the police and the military, power generated from within should have little or no use of them.

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  Military, Power, Should Have

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• Steam becomes a mighty power only when it allows itself to be imprisoned in a strong little reservoir, produces tremendous motion and carries huge weights by permitting itself a tiny and measured outlet.

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  Strong, Power, Weight

  Mahatma Gandhi (1993). “Gandhi on Nehru”

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• The moment the cultivators of the soil realize their power, the evil of Zamindari will be sterilized.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Power, Evil, Soil

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• How heavy is the toll of sins and wrong that wealth, power and prestige exact from man.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Power, Men, Tolls

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• Even Ramanama is by itself lifeless, but it has become a living symbol of the deity because millions of people have consecrated it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  People, Rama, Deities

  Mahatma Gandhi (1960). “Writings and Speeches of Mahatma Gandhi Relating to Bihar, 1917-1947”

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• In man, reason quickens and guides feelings; in brute, the soul lies ever dormant.

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  Lying, Men, Soul

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.153, A&C Black

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• Nothing in the Shastras, which is capable of being reasoned, can stand if it is in conflict with reason.

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  Conflict, Reason, Ifs

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.125, Hackett Publishing

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• There is no doubt that our last state will be worse than our first, if we surrender our reason into somebody's keeping.

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  Doubt, Lasts, Firsts

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.228, Grove Press

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• Islam appeals to people because it appeals also to reason.

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  People, Islam, Reason

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• I have described Swaraj as Ramarajya and Ramarajya is an impossibility unless we have thousands of Sitas.

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  Reason, Sita, Impossibility

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• Voluntary service of others demands the best of which one is capable, and must take precedence over service of self.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Demand, Precedence

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.77, Oxford University Press

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• The platform of services is as big as the world. It is never overcrowded.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  World, Bigs, Platforms

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• The human body is meant solely for service, never for indulgence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Body, Human Body, Indulgence

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, North Atlantic Books

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• That prince is acceptable to me who becomes a prince among his people's servants.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  People, Servant, Acceptable

  Mahatma Gandhi (1966). “Socialism of My Conception”

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• One's everyday life is never capable of being separated from his spiritual being.

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  Spiritual, Everyday, Life Is

  Mahatma Gandhi (1960). “Writings and Speeches of Mahatma Gandhi Relating to Bihar, 1917-1947”

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• A definite forgiveness would mean a definite recognition of our strength.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strength, Strong, Mean

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• If we were strong, self-respecting and not susceptible to frightfulness, the foreign rulers would have been powerless for mischief.

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  Strength, Strong, Self

  Mahatma Gandhi (1969). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Nanda broke down every barrier and won his way to freedom not by brag, not by bluster, but by the purest form of self-suffering.

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  Self, Suffering, Way

  Mahatma Gandhi (1935). “Young India, 1927-1928”

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• Only the toad under the harrow knows where it pinches him.

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  Suffering, Toads, Knows

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.195, Penguin Books India

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• I literally believe in the possibility of a Sudhanva smiling away whilst he was being drowned in boiling oil.

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  Believe, Oil, Suffering

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Satyagraha (non-violent Resistance)”

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