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Mahatma Gandhi Quotes - Page 33

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Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary.

Mahatma Gandhi
War, Sunset, Victory And Defeat
Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works”

Mere brave speech without action is letting off useless steam.

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

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

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Inspirational, Friendship, Wise
Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.62, New Directions Publishing

Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood.

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Country, Women, Dowry
Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.213, Rajpal & Sons

A rabbit that runs away from the bull-terrier is not particularly non-violent.

Mahatma Gandhi
Running, Rabbits, Bulls
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

Mahatma Gandhi
Faith, Truth, Moral Growth
Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”

Religious truth, or for that matter any truth, requires a calm and meditative atmosphere for its percolation.

Mahatma Gandhi
Religious, Truth, Atmosphere
Mahatma Gandhi (1974). “Collected Works”

The world is changing every moment, and is therefore unreal. It has non permanent existence.

Mahatma Gandhi
World, Moments, Existence

Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving.

Mahatma Gandhi
Life, Nature, Law
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.76, Courier Corporation

It Is possible to live in peace.

Mahatma Gandhi
Happiness, Peace, Passion

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

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Love, Inspirational, Family

In a society based on nonviolence, the smallest nation will feel as tall as the tallest.

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Feels, Smallest, Nonviolence
Mahatma Gandhi (1977). “Collected Works”

Untouchability is a many-headed monster and forms, some of them so subtle as not to be easily detected.

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Monsters, Subtle, Form
Mahatma Gandhi (1973). “Collected Works”

If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality.

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Children, Men, Equality

To a man with an empty stomach food is God

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Food, Men, Poverty

Non-violence and cowardice are contradictory terms. Non-violence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice. Non-violence springs from love, cowardice from hate. Non-violence always suffers, cowardice would always inflict suffering. Perfect non-violence is the highest bravery. Non-violent conduct is never demoralising; cowardice always is.

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

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

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Peace, Truth, Vision
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.43, A&C Black

Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.

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Doe, Violence, Civil Disobedience
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

Employers ganging up against workers is like raising an army of elephants against ants.

Mahatma Gandhi
Army, Elephants, Employers
Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works”

To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face, one must be able to love the meanest of all creation as oneself.

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Spiritual, Able, Faces
Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.454, Courier Corporation

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom, 4th Of July, Men
Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

What you feel and how you react to something is always up to you. There may be a "normal" or a common way to react to different things. But that's mostly just all it is.

Mahatma Gandhi
Different, Up To You, World

I do believe that where there is a choice between cowardice and non-violence I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done, had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908, whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defended me, I told him that it was his duty to defend me even by using violence.

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Running, Believe, Son
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.99, A&C Black

God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist.

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

Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society.

Mahatma Gandhi
Law, Bread, Revolution
Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.63, Rajpal & Sons