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Mahatma Gandhi Quotes - Page 17

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I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.

I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.

Inspirational, Spiritual, Freedom

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.

Inspirational, Happiness, Long

Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.244, Courier Corporation

I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonour. But I believe that nonviolence is infinitely superior to violence, forgiveness is more manly than punishment.

Believe, Order, Punishment

Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.158, Tara Publishing

Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the Europeans, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir whose occupation is hunting, and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with and, then, pass his life in indolence and nakedness.

Struggle, Ambition, Hunting

Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

Unity, to be real, must stand the severest strain without breaking.

Real, Kwanzaa, Community

Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Communal Unity”

High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship.

Thinking, Worship, Complicated

Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.120, A&C Black

Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law.

Mean, Acceptance, Law

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

Violence always thrived on counter violence.

Violence

Mahatma Gandhi (1983). “Collected Works”

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

Inspirational, Peace, Thoughtful

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

It was our love of foreign cloth that ousted the wheel from its position of dignity.

Our Love, Wheels, Dignity

Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.230, Grove Press

In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.

Light, Darkness, Life Death

Address at Kingsley Hall, delivered 17 October 1931, London

Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.

Spiritual, Calmness, Aggravating

The lives of Zoroaster, Jesus and Mohammed, as I have understood them, have illumined many a passage in the Gita.

Jesus, Gita, Passages

Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “None High: None Low”

A man or a woman who serves the country with all his or her heart stands on par with the tallest Congress-man.

Country, Heart, Men

If I had no sense of humor I should long ago have committed suicide.

Inspirational, Funny Love, Wise

"The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas".

It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e. hate, rules us we would have become extinct long ago. And yet, the tragedy of it is that the so-called civilised men and nations conduct themselves as if the basis of society was violence.

Love, Hate, Men

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

Hate the sin and not the sinner' is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.

Hate, Hatred, Poison

An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth pt. 4, ch. 9 (1929)

President means chief servant

Mean, Political, President

Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Selected Letters”

I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen.

Peace, Reputation, Crank

Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.163, A&C Black

The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.

Love, Inspirational, Spiritual

Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.

Karma, Animal, Rights

Mahatma Gandhi, General Press (2014). “My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.361, GENERAL PRESS

When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war.

War, Fighting, Two Nations

Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.85, A&C Black

As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist

Law, Long, People

No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world.

Wine, Power, Race

Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “The Essential Gandhi: His Life, Work, and Ideas : an Anthology”, Vintage

The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.

Children, Moral Development, Intellectual

Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.178, Rajpal & Sons

Born: October 2, 1869 - January 30, 1948
Occupation: Civil rights leader

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