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The only true resistance to this Government... [is] to cease to co-operate with it.

The only true resistance to this Government... [is] to cease to co-operate with it.

Mahatma Gandhi
Government, Justice, Resistance

If you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold.

Mahatma Gandhi
Love, People, Affection
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.30, Courier Corporation

A person who has truly realized the principle of nonviolence has the God given strength for his weapon, and the world has not yet known anything that can match it.

Mahatma Gandhi
Strength, Principles, World

Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves.

Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom, Liberty, Birth
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.125, Courier Corporation

When nonviolence is accepted as the law of life, it must pervade the whole being and not be applied to isolated acts.

Mahatma Gandhi
Life, Law, Accepted
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.87, A&C Black

Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth and the soul requires inward restfulness to attain its full height.

Mahatma Gandhi
Life, Truth, Long
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.51, Courier Corporation

The real test of nonviolence lies in its being brought in contact with those who have contempt for it.

Mahatma Gandhi
Lying, Real, Tests
Mahatma Gandhi (1978). “Collected Works”

So far as I can see, the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained for ages. There used to be so-called laws of war, which made it tolerable. Now we know the truth. War knows no law except that of might. The atomic bomb brought an empty victory but it resulted for the time being in destroying the soul of Japan. What has happened to the soul of the destroying nation is yet too early to see.

Mahatma Gandhi
Religious, War, Japan

Fear has its use, but cowardice has none. I may not put my finger into the jaws of a snake, but the very sight of the snake need not strike terror into me.

Mahatma Gandhi
Sight, Snakes, Needs
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

Fear is not a disease of the body; fear kills the soul.

Mahatma Gandhi
Soul, Body, Disease
"Ahmedabad ready to host England as Test doubts continue" by David Hopps, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2008.

My commitment is to truth not consistency.

Mahatma Gandhi
Truth, Commitment, Consistency

All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles.

Mahatma Gandhi
Inspirational, Made, Bigs
Gandhi (Mahatma) (1962). “The essential Gandhi: an anthology”, Random House Inc

The measure of a society can be how well its people treat its animals

Mahatma Gandhi
Animal, People, Treats

The power of unarmed nonviolence is any day far superior to that of armed force.

Mahatma Gandhi
Force, Ahimsa, Unarmed
Mahatma Gandhi (1976). “Collected Works”

Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire.

Mahatma Gandhi
Fire, Water, Brave
Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.

Mahatma Gandhi
Atmosphere, Calm, Prison
Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.74, Hackett Publishing

Is the God of the Mahometan different from the God of the Hindu? Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal? Wherein is the cause for quarreling?

Mahatma Gandhi
Long, Goal, Religion
Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.104, Vintage

My own veneration for other faiths is the same as that for my own faith; therefore no thought of conversion is possible

Mahatma Gandhi
Faith, Veneration, My Own
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.57, A&C Black

Learn as if you will live forever.

Mahatma Gandhi
Forever, Live Forever, Ifs

You have the choice to create the life your heart is yearning to live.

Mahatma Gandhi
Heart, Choices, Yearning

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.

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

Those who cannot renounce attachment to the results of their work are far from the path.

Mahatma Gandhi
Inspirational, Attachment, Path

The one religion is beyond all speech.

Mahatma Gandhi
Inspirational, Speech
Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.61, A&C Black

Faith is put to the test when the situation is most difficult.

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

Faith becomes lame, when it ventures into matters pertaining to reason!

Mahatma Gandhi
Inspirational, Lame, Venture
Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “Volume of prefaces”