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It hurts me to think that people in their rush for everything modern despise all their ancient traditions and ignore them in their lives.

It hurts me to think that people in their rush for everything modern despise all their ancient traditions and ignore them in their lives.

Mahatma Gandhi
Hurt, Thinking, People
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.156, Courier Corporation

Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God.

Mahatma Gandhi
Believe, Omnipotence, Monsters
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.167, A&C Black

Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.

Mahatma Gandhi
Hero, Defeat, Hours
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”

In the march towards Truth, anger, selfishness, hatred, etc., naturally give way, for otherwise Truth would be impossible to attain. A man who is swayed by passions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.

Mahatma Gandhi
Anger, Passion, Men
Mahatma Gandhi (2008). “My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography”, p.362, Jaico Publishing House

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

Mahatma Gandhi
Inspirational, Motivational, Distance
Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

I do regard spinning and weaving as a necessary part of any national system of education.

Mahatma Gandhi
Weaving, Spinning, Regard
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

Those who are truthful, nonviolent and brave do not cease to be so because of the stupidity of their leader.

Mahatma Gandhi
Leader, Brave, Stupidity
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

In the case of the Indian villager, an age-old culture is hidden under entrustment of crudeness.

Mahatma Gandhi
Age, India, Culture

In the application of Satyagraha, I discovered, in the earliest stages, that pursuit of Truth did not admit of violence being inflicted on one's opponent, but that he must be weaned from error by patience and sympathy. For, what appears to be truth to the one may appear to be error to the other. And patience means self-suffering. So the doctrine came to mean vindication of Truth, not by infliction of suffering on the opponent but one's own self.

Mahatma Gandhi
Mean, Self, Errors
Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.61, Hackett Publishing

Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

Mahatma Gandhi
Peace, War, Blood
Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.70, New Directions Publishing

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

Mahatma Gandhi
Truth, Freedom, Law
Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Gandhigrams”

Religions are different roads converging on the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal? I believe that all religions of the world are true more or less. I say "more or less" because I believe that everything the human hand touches, by reason of the very fact that human beings are imperfect, becomes imperfect.

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

Non-violence is the article of faith.

Mahatma Gandhi
Faith, Peace, Violence

A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience.

Mahatma Gandhi
Inspirational, Leader, Useless
Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.132, A&C Black

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.

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

Hindu-Muslim unity, khaddar and removal of untouchability are to me the foundation of Swaraj.

Mahatma Gandhi
Unity, Foundation, Untouchability
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

Stoning prophets and erecting churches to their memory afterwards has been the way of the world through the ages. Today we worship Christ, but the Christ in the flesh we crucified.

Mahatma Gandhi
Friday, Jesus, Memories
Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “Collected Works”

There is no greater spellbinder of peace than the name of God.

Mahatma Gandhi
God, Names, Greater

The secret of a happy life lies in renunciation. Renunciation is life.

Mahatma Gandhi
Life, Lying, Secret
Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, North Atlantic Books

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

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

Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.

Mahatma Gandhi
Democracy, Liberty, Action
Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.27, Rajpal & Sons

A true man of piety will consider himself a sinner and, therefore, untouchable.

Mahatma Gandhi
Men, Untouchables, Untouchability
Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “All Religions are True”

Hate the sin, love the sinner.

Mahatma Gandhi
Love, Inspirational, Spiritual

As a rule, the mind, residing in a body that has become weakened by pampering, is also weak, and where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.

Mahatma Gandhi
Soul, Mind, Pampering
Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.51, Penguin Books India

As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality. Man, for instance, cannot be untruthful, cruel or incontinent and claim to have God on his side.

Mahatma Gandhi
Religious, Men, Religion
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.72, A&C Black