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If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done.

If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done.

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Done, Realizing, Construction
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

It is the law of love that rules mankind.

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Peace, Law, Mankind
Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.59, New Directions Publishing

Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views.

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Respect, Sacrifice, Views
Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.

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Strength, Educational, Teaching
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him. I am prepared to sacrifice the things dearest to me in pursuit of this quest. Even if the sacrifice demanded my very life, I hope I may be prepared to give it.

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Truth, Sacrifice, Giving
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.63, A&C Black

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry.

Mahatma Gandhi
Happiness, Worry, Waste
Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.277, Vintage

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Mahatma Gandhi
Love, Life, Running

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Live simply that others might simply live.

Mahatma Gandhi
Simple, Simplicity, Community

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”

Love has more force than a besieging army.

Mahatma Gandhi
Army, Force

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.

Mahatma Gandhi
Truth, Men, Negative

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”

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”

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

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Christian, Buddhist, Diversity

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”

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

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”

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

The purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself. We cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that lives. The sum-total of that life is God.

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Nature, Purpose, Life Is
Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.41, Oxford University Press