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Let no one charge me with ever having abused or encouraged weakness or surrendered on matters of principle. But I have said, as I say again, that every trifle must not be dignified into a principle.

Let no one charge me with ever having abused or encouraged weakness or surrendered on matters of principle. But I have said, as I say again, that every trifle must not be dignified into a principle.

Mahatma Gandhi
Courage, Weakness, Principles
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”

Real suffering bravely borne, melts even a heart of stone. Such is the potency of suffering. And there lies the key to Satyagraha.

Mahatma Gandhi
Courage, Real, Lying
Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha in South Africa”

A man who broods on evil is as bad a man who does evil, if he is no worse.

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

It is through truth & non-violence that I can have some glimpse of God. Truth & non-violence are my God. They are the obverse and reverse of the same coin.

Mahatma Gandhi
Religion, Glimpse, Coins
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 but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Eternal and become merely a lump of clay in the Potter's divine hands so that my service may become more certain because uninterrupted by the baser self in me.

Mahatma Gandhi
Hands, Self, Religion
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.115, Courier Corporation

The spirit of non-violence necessarily leads to humility. Non-violence means reliance on God, the rock of ages. If we would seek his aid, we must approach Him with a humble and contrite heart.

Mahatma Gandhi
Mean, Humility, Heart
Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.49, Hackett Publishing

I believe in absolute oneness of God and therefore also of humanity.

Mahatma Gandhi
God, Believe, Oneness
Mahatma Gandhi (194?). “Gandhi's Beads of Wisdow: A Synopsis of Gandhiji's Utterances on Truth and Non-violence”

My trust is solely in God. And I trust men only because I trust God. If I had no God to rely upon, I should be like Timon, a hater of my species.

Mahatma Gandhi
Men, Rely Upon, Religion
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.69, A&C Black

God tries his votaries through and through but never beyond endurance. He gives them strength enough to go through the ordeal he prescribes for them.

Mahatma Gandhi
Giving, Religion, Trying
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”

Human society is a ceaseless growth, and unfoldment in terms of spirituality.

Mahatma Gandhi
Religion, Growth, Spirituality

A clean confession combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest type of repentance.

Mahatma Gandhi
Promise, Religion, Sin
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.36, Courier Corporation

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.

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

When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from within.

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

Humankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence. Hatred can be overcome only by love. Counter - hatred only increases the surface as well as the depth of hatred.

Mahatma Gandhi
Hatred, Violence, Overcoming
Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.46, New Directions Publishing

I must dissent emphatically from any proposal to spend any money on preparing a statue of me, more especially at a time when people do not have enough food and clothing.

Mahatma Gandhi
People, Proposal, Enough
Mahatma Gandhi (1983). “Collected Works”

I understood . . . that those who desired salvation should act like the trustee who, though having control over great possessions, regards not an iota of them as his own.

Mahatma Gandhi
Desire, Salvation, Should
Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.233, Courier Corporation

The fullest life is impossible without an immovable belief in a Living Law in obedience to which the whole universe moves.

Mahatma Gandhi
Moving, Law, Belief
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.238, Courier Corporation

World has things which full fill man needs, but not greeds.

Mahatma Gandhi
Men, Greed, Needs

Violence begins with the fork.

Mahatma Gandhi
Violence, Animal Rights, Vegetarian

Intolerance is a species of violence and therefore against our creed.

Mahatma Gandhi
Violence, Intolerance, Creeds
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.18, Courier Corporation

If you are left with only one piece of homespun,wear it with dignity

Mahatma Gandhi
Pieces, Dignity, One Piece

That we should obey laws whether good or bad is a new-fangled notion. There was no such thing in former days. The people disregarded those laws they did not like and suffered the penalties for their breach.

Mahatma Gandhi
Law, People, Should
Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.48, Penguin Books India

I may have become Christian, were it not for Christians.

Mahatma Gandhi
Christian, May

The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else.

Mahatma Gandhi
Long, Democracy, Doe
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.347, Rajpal & Sons

To put up with. . . distortions and to stick to one's guns come what may - this is the. . . gift of leadership.

Mahatma Gandhi
Leadership, Gun, May