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It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their armlessness into the central means for deliverance.

It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their armlessness into the central means for deliverance.

Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom, Mean, People
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

Though we are politically free, we are hardly free from the subtle domination of the West.

Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom, West, Subtle
Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.181, Rajpal & Sons

A slave has not the freedom even to do the right thing.

Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom, Slave, Right Thing
Mahatma Gandhi (2014). “Freedom's Battle: Being a Comprehensive Collection of Writings and Speeches on the Present Situation”, p.113, The Floating Press

They might kill me but they cannot kill Gandhism. If truth can be killed, Gandhism can be killed.

Mahatma Gandhi
Might, Kill Me, Ifs
Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

There is already enough superstition in our country. No effort should be spared to resist further addition in the shape of Gandhi worship.

Mahatma Gandhi
Country, Effort, Shapes
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

I have not hesitated to call the system of Government under which we are labouring 'satanic' and I withdraw naught out of it.

Mahatma Gandhi
Government, India, Satanic

The stability of the State depends upon the readiness of every citizen to subordinate his rights to those of the rest.

Mahatma Gandhi
Rights, Government, India
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

Do not concentrate on showing the misdeeds of the government, for we have to convert and befriend those who run it.

Mahatma Gandhi
Running, Government, India
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

The fire of independence is burning just as bright in my breast as in the most fiery breast in this country, but ways and methods differ.

Mahatma Gandhi
Country, Fire, Independence

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

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”

There is an indefinable mysterious Power that pervades everything.

Mahatma Gandhi
Power, Mysterious, Indefinable
Address at Kingsley Hall, delivered 17 October 1931, London

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.

Mahatma Gandhi
Military, Power, Should Have

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.

Mahatma Gandhi
Strong, Power, Weight
Mahatma Gandhi (1993). “Gandhi on Nehru”

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

Mahatma Gandhi
Power, Evil, Soil

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

Mahatma Gandhi
Power, Men, Tolls

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”

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

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

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

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

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

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

Islam appeals to people because it appeals also to reason.

Mahatma Gandhi
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”

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

Mahatma Gandhi
Reason, Sita, Impossibility
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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

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

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

A nation that is capable of limitless sacrifice is capable of rising to limitless heights. The purer the sacrifice the quicker the progress.

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