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The line of demarcation between democracy and monocracy is often thin, but rigid and stronger than unbreakable steel.

The line of demarcation between democracy and monocracy is often thin, but rigid and stronger than unbreakable steel.

Mahatma Gandhi
Democracy, Stronger, Steel

No perfect democracy is possible without perfect nonviolence at the back of it.

Mahatma Gandhi
Perfect, Democracy, Nonviolence
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation”, Clarendon Press

Ashram means a community of men of religion. I feel that an ashram was a necessity of life for me.

Mahatma Gandhi
Inspirational, Mean, Men

I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.

Mahatma Gandhi
Inspirational, Being Myself, Guru
Mahatma Gandhi (1976). “Collected Works”

The hardest heart and the grossest ignorance must disappear before the rising sun of suffering without anger and without malice.

Mahatma Gandhi
Inspirational, Heart, Ignorance
Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.178, Vintage

I wish to change there minds, not kill them for weaknesses we all poses.

Mahatma Gandhi
Inspirational, Mind, Wish

When you want to find Truth as God, the only inevitable means is love, that is nonviolence.

Mahatma Gandhi
Inspirational, Mean, Want
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.67, A&C Black

God lives, but not as we. His creatures live but to die. But God is life. Therefore, goodness is not an attribute. Goodness is God.

Mahatma Gandhi
Inspirational, Goodness, God Life
Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.8, North Atlantic Books

What we can do, we will try to do.

Mahatma Gandhi
Trying, Can Do

All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.

Mahatma Gandhi
Beauty, Beautiful, Song
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.71, A&C Black

You can judge a society by the way it treats it's animals

Mahatma Gandhi
Animal, Judging, Way

What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated?

Mahatma Gandhi
Victory, Kind, Defeated

There are subjects where reason cannot take us far and we have to accept things on faith. Faith then does not contradict reason but transcends it. Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason.

Mahatma Gandhi
Faith, Doe, Kind
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.61, A&C Black

I implicitly believe in the truth of the saying that not a blade of grass moves but by His will. He will save it (my life) if He needs it for further service in this body. None can save it against His will.

Mahatma Gandhi
God, Believe, Moving
Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.221, Oxford University Press

It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine.

Mahatma Gandhi
Individuality, Cogs, Machines
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.134, Courier Corporation

Life becomes livable only to the extent that death is treated as a friend, never as an enemy.

Mahatma Gandhi
Life, Enemy, Treated
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Homage to the Departed”

... the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties driven asunder.

Mahatma Gandhi
Party, Law, Driven

... we have to learn to use that force (love) among all that lives, and in the use of it consists our knowledge of God. Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction.

Mahatma Gandhi
Love, Hatred, Use
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.119, Courier Corporation

Rama Nama should come from the heart. In that event, Rama Nama could become an effective remedy against all ailments. A man who believes in Rama Nama would not make a fetish of the body but would regard it as a means of serving God. And for making it into a fit instrument for that purpose, Rama Nama is the sovereign means. To install Rama Nama in the heart requires infinite patience. It might even take ages. But the effort is worthwhile. Rama Nama cannot come from the heart unless one has cultivated the virtues of truth, honesty and purity within and without.

Mahatma Gandhi
Honesty, Believe, Heart

If you want something done, ask. If you want something done quickly, ask, and then begin counting down from ten with no explanation.

Mahatma Gandhi
Want Something, Done, Counting

Ahimsa is one of the world's great principles, which no power on earth can wipe out.

Mahatma Gandhi
Earth, Principles, Wipe
Mahatma Gandhi (1981). “Collected Works”

Love and ahimsa are matchless in their effect.

Mahatma Gandhi
Ahimsa, Effects
Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

Ahimsa can be practiced only towards those that are inferior to you in every way.

Mahatma Gandhi
Way, Ahimsa, Inferiors

Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face.

Mahatma Gandhi
Men, Looks, Vigor
Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.107, Tara Publishing

Ahimsa must be placed before everything else while it is professed. Then alone it becomes irresistible.

Mahatma Gandhi
Irresistible, Ahimsa
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”