Mahatma Gandhi Quotes - Page 98

• If you Christians acted more like your Christ, the world would be a better place.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Christian, Would Be, World

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• It is as much our obligation not to cooperate with evil as it is to cooperate with good

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  Evil, Obligation

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• Priorities lie in your actions

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  Lying, Priorities, Action

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• If you do what you enjoy doing you'll never have to work hard.

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  Hard Work, Doing You, Enjoy

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• As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books.

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  Book, Reading, School

  Mahatma Gandhi (2008). “My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography”, p.22, Jaico Publishing House

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• When the fear of jail disappears, repression puts heart into the people.

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  Heart, Jail, People

  Mahatma Gandhi (2008). “My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography”, p.457, Jaico Publishing House

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• ...service can have no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it. When it is done for show or for fear of public opinion, it stunts the man and crushes his spirit. Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.

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  Crush, Men, Joy

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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• You can't hurt me without my permission.

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  Hurt, Permission, Hurt Me

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• I care so deeply about this matter that I'm willing to take on the legal penalties, to sit in this prison cell, to sacrifice my freedom, in order to show you how deeply I care. Because when you see the depth of my concern, and how civil I am in going about this, you're bound to change your mind about me, to abandon your rigid, unjust position, and to let me help you see the truth of my cause.

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  Sacrifice, Cells, Order

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• 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 become indescribable, indefinable.

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  Blessed, Believe, Perfect

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.58, A&C Black

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• If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British.

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  Atoms, Bombs, Used

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.312, Vintage

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• Why worry one's head over a thing that is inevitable? Why die before one's death?

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  Worry, Anxiety, Inevitable

  Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”

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• We do not know whether it is good to live or to die. Therefore, we should not take delight in living, nor should we tremble at the thought of death. We should be equiminded towards death. This is the ideal. It may be long before we reach it, and only a few of us can attain it. Even then, we must keep it constantly in view, and the more difficult it seems of attainment, the greater should be the effort we put forth.

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  Death, Views, Long

  Mahatma Gandhi (1993). “Gandhi on Nehru”

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• ... there are chords in every human heart. If we only knew how to strike the right chord, we would bring out the music.

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  Music, Heart, Chords

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “The Essential Gandhi: His Life, Work, and Ideas : an Anthology”, Vintage

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• A jailer is as much a prisoner as his prisoner.

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  Prison, Prisoner, Jailer

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.302, Vintage

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• God turns His back on those who quarrel among themselves.

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  Quarrels, Turns

  Mahatma Gandhi (1951). “A Day Book of Thoughts from Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Religion is not what is grasped by the brain, but a heart grasp.

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  Heart, Religion, Brain

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• Indeed, one perfect resister is enough to win the battle of Right against Wrong.

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  Winning, Perfect, Battle

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.144, A&C Black

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• I must try to live in society and yet remain untouched by its pitfalls.

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  Society, Trying, Pitfalls

  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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• Truth is superior to man s wisdom.

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  Truth, Men, Mankind

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.29, Rajpal & Sons

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• In the dictionary of the seeker of truth there is no such thing as being "not successful." He is or should be an irrepressible optimist because of his immovable faith in the ultimate victory of Truth, which is God.

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  Truth, Successful, Victory

  Mahatma Gandhi (1976). “Collected Works”

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• I believe in what Max Muller said years ago, namely, that truth needed to be repeated as long as there were men who disbelieved it.

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  Truth, Believe, Men

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.367, Tara Publishing

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• I have an implicit faith ... that mankind can only be saved through non-violence, which is the central teaching of the Bible, as I have understood the Bible.

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  Teaching, Violence, Mankind

  Mahatma Gandhi (1977). “Collected Works”

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• Few men are wantonly wicked.

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  Men, Wicked, Wickedness

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.183, Vintage

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• One may detest the wickedness of a brother without hating him.

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  Brother, Hate, Wickedness

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

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