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I believe in the absolute oneness of God and, therefore, also of humanity. I have always believed God to be without form. What I did hear was like a Voice from afar, and yet quite near.

I believe in the absolute oneness of God and, therefore, also of humanity. I have always believed God to be without form. What I did hear was like a Voice from afar, and yet quite near.

Mahatma Gandhi
Believe, Voice, Oneness

One has to speak out and stand up for one's convictions. Inaction at a time of conflagration is inexcusable.

Mahatma Gandhi
Speaks Out, Speak, Conviction
Mahatma Gandhi (1981). “Collected Works”

A poet is one who can call forth the good latent in the human beast.

Mahatma Gandhi
Beast, Poet, Latent

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. . . . . . . Prayer is the first and the last lesson in learning the noble and brave art of sacrificing self in the various walks of life culminating in the defence of one's nation's liberty and honour.

Mahatma Gandhi
Art, Prayer, Sacrifice

If that is the law of life we must work it out in daily exisitance. Wherever there are wars, wherever we are confronted with an opponent, conquer by love. I have found that the certain law of love has answered in my own life as the law of destruction has never done.

Mahatma Gandhi
War, Law, Done

Nonviolence has come among men and it will live. It is the harbinger of the peace of the world.

Mahatma Gandhi
Men, World, Harbinger

Had we adopted non-violence as the weapon of the strong, because we realised that it was more effective than any other weapon, in fact the mightiest force in the world, we would have made use of its full potency and not have discarded it as soon as the fight against the British was over or we were in a position to wield conventional weapons. But as I have already said, we adopted it out of our helplessness. If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British.

Mahatma Gandhi
Strong, Fighting, Violence
Speech as the official date for Indian independence approached, June 16, 1947.

I have even seen the writings suggesting that I am playing a deep game, that I am using the present turmoil to foist my fads on India, and am making religious experiments at India's expense. I can only answer that Satyagraha is made of sterner stuff. There is nothing reserved and nothing secret in it.

Mahatma Gandhi
Religious, Writing, Games
Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “Hind Swaraj”, p.12, Rajpal & Sons

Complete independence through truth and non-violence means the independence of every unit, be it the humblest of the nation, without distinction of race, colour or creed.

Mahatma Gandhi
Mean, Race, Independence
Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.165, Oxford University Press

He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa.

Mahatma Gandhi
Truth, Cutting, Roots

Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths.

Mahatma Gandhi
Faith, Numbers, Tree

[He] alone is truly nonviolent who remains nonviolent even though he has the ability to strike.

Mahatma Gandhi
Strikes, Ability, Remains
Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

The way to truth lies through ahimsa (nonviolence).

Mahatma Gandhi
Lying, Way, Ahimsa
Mahatma Gandhi (1969). “Collected Works”

It is easier to bridge the oceans that lie between continents than it is to bridge the gap between individuals or the peoples.

Mahatma Gandhi
Lying, Ocean, Bridges

Let our lives be open books for all to study.

Mahatma Gandhi
Book, Study, Life Is
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.20, Courier Corporation

Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two... The duty of a human being is to diminish hatred and to promote love.

Mahatma Gandhi
Two, Differences, Hatred
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Light of India: The Message of the Mahatma”

If you`d be loved, be worthy to be love

Mahatma Gandhi
Love, Worthy, Ifs

A man who throws himself on God ceases to fear man

Mahatma Gandhi
God, Men, Belief
Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

Even a believer in nonviolence has to say between two combatants which is less bad or whose cause is just.

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

Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used.

Mahatma Gandhi
Understanding, Used, Force
Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.310, Grove Press

I cannot imagine anything nobler or more national than that for, say, one hour in the day we should all do the labor the poor must do, and thus identify ourselves with them and through them, with all mankind.

Mahatma Gandhi
Work, Hours In The Day, Imagine
Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.121, A&C Black

The mind may wander, but let not the senses wander with it. If the senses wander where the mind takes them, one is done for.

Mahatma Gandhi
Knowing Who You Are, Mind, Done
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Light of India: The Message of the Mahatma”

I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.

Mahatma Gandhi
Animal, Vegetarianism, Copying
Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.151, Rajpal & Sons

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

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

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

Mahatma Gandhi
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”