Mahatma Gandhi Quotes - Page 125

• If we were to drive out the English with the weapons with which they enslaved us, our slavery would still be with us even when they have gone.

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  Gone, Slavery, Weapons

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• In the secret of my heart I am in perpetual quarrel with God that He should allow such things [as the war] to go on. My non-violence seems almost impotent. But the answer comes at the end of the daily quarrel that neither God nor non-violence is impotent. Impotence is in men. I must try on without losing faith even though I may break in the attempt.

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  War, Heart, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.89, New Directions Publishing

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• A non-violent revolution is not a program of seizure of power. It is a program of transformation of relationships, ending in a peaceful transfer of power.

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  Justice, Diversity, Peaceful

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.40, New Directions Publishing

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• The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.

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  Cat, Sacrifice, Animal

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.90, Courier Corporation

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• By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit.

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  Children, Educational, Mean

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.146, A&C Black

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• Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India.

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  Education, Children, Cities

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.178, Rajpal & Sons

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• Live simply that others might simply live.

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  Simple, Simplicity, Community

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• Everyone has faith in God though everyone does not know it. For everyone has faith in himself and that multiplied to the nth degree is God. The sum total of all that lives is God. We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean.

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  Beach, Ocean, Sea

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• Love has more force than a besieging army.

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  Army, Force

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• A man who is swayed by negative emotions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.

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  Truth, Men, Negative

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• One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.

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  Liberty, Use, Coercion

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.

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  Truth, Keeping Promises, Kept Promises

  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 consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist and Confucian.

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  Christian, Buddhist, Diversity

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• I know nothing of the science of astrology and I consider it to be a science, if it is a science, of doubtful value, to be severely left alone by those who have any faith in Providence.

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  Faith, Astrology, Providence

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion. I know that I have not in me as yet that triple purity in spite of constant ceaseless striving for it. That is why the world's praise fails to move me, indeed it very often stings me. To conquer the subtle passions seems to me to be harder far than the physical conquest of the world by the force of arms.

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  Love, Moving, Passion

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.56, A&C Black

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• The hardest metal yields to sufficient heat. Even so must the hardest heart melt before sufficiency of the heat of non- violence. And there is no limit to the capacity of non-violence to generate heat.

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  Heart, Yield, Limits

  Mahatma Gandhi (1977). “Collected Works”

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• It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action. I do not regard flesh-food as necessary at any stage

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  Philosophical, Animal, Errors

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• I am a proud staunch Sanatani Hindu.

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  Proud

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• I am a Hindu because it is Hinduism which makes the world worth living. I am a Hindu hence I Love not only human beings, but all living beings.

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  World, Hinduism, Humans

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• I am a Hindu by birth. And yet I do not know much of Hinduism, and I know less of other religions. In fact I do not know where I am, and what is and what should be my belief. I intend to make a careful study of my own religion and, as far as I can, of others.

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  Facts, Belief, Study

  Mahatma Gandhi, General Press (2014). “My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.193, GENERAL PRESS

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• I have no other wish in this world but to find light and joy and peace through Hinduism.

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  Light, Joy, Wish

  Mahatma Gandhi (1972). “Collected Works”

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• Faith is a function of the heart.

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  Faith, Heart, Function

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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• To forgive and accept injustice is cowardice.

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  Forgiving, Vegan, Injustice

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• I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a weapon of the weak. I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a weapon of the strongest. I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

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  Believe, Men, Soldier

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (2010). “Wof : Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi”, p.30, Penguin Books India

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• All my actions have their rise in my inalienable love of mankind.

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  Peace, Action, Mankind

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.8, A&C Black

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