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The woman who knows and fulfils her duty realizes her dignified status.

The woman who knows and fulfils her duty realizes her dignified status.

Mahatma Gandhi
Women, Realizing, Duty
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.299, Rajpal & Sons

My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control.

Mahatma Gandhi
Women, Lying, Exercise
Mahatma Gandhi (1964). “Through Self-control”

All true art must help the soul to realize its inner self.

Mahatma Gandhi
Art, Self, Soul
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.159, Courier Corporation

Knowledge and devotion, to be true, have to stand the test of renunciation of the fruits of action.

Mahatma Gandhi
Knowledge, Tests, Fruit
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.37, Courier Corporation

Without devotion, action and knowledge are cold and dry and many even become shackles.

Mahatma Gandhi
Knowledge, Dry, Action

Knowledge of the tallest scientist or the greatest spiritualist is like a particle of dust.

Mahatma Gandhi
Knowledge, Dust, Scientist
Mahatma Gandhi (1974). “Collected Works”

The only things that separates us from the brute, with which we have so much in common, is the capacity to distinguish between right and wrong.

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

History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force.

Mahatma Gandhi
Soul, Force, Brutes
Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.13, Rajpal & Sons

The force of the spirit is ever progressive and endless. Its full expression makes it unconquerable in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi
Expression, Soul, World
Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.349, Grove Press

If one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains

Mahatma Gandhi
Gains, World, Persons

Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two. What is obtained by love is retained for all time. What is obtained by hatred proves a burden in reality for it increases hatred." - by Mohandas K. Gandhi -

Mahatma Gandhi
Love, Reality, Differences

Facts we would always place before our readers, whether they are palatable or not, and it is by placing them constantly before the public in their nakedness that the misunderstanding between the two communities in South Africa can be removed.

Mahatma Gandhi
Two, Community, Facts
Mahatma Gandhi (1960). “1903-1905”

If you want to change the world, be that change.

Mahatma Gandhi
Volunteer, World, Want

In this instance of the fire-arms, the Asiatic has been most improperly bracketed with the native. The British Indian does not need any such restrictions as are imposed by the Bill on the natives regarding the carrying of fire-arms. The prominent race can remain so by preventing the native from arming himself. Is there a slightest vestige of justification for so preventing the British Indian?

Mahatma Gandhi
Fire, Race, Doe
"The Indian Opinion" Newspaper, March 25, 1905.

Purity of life is the highest and truest art.

Mahatma Gandhi
Art, Life Is, Purity
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.174, A&C Black

Every affliction has its own rich lesson to teach, if we would learn it.

Mahatma Gandhi
Affliction, Lessons, Rich
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly.

Mahatma Gandhi
Brave, Ahimsa, Highest
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.153, Rajpal & Sons

Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill.

Mahatma Gandhi
Desire, Ahimsa
Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.105, Tara Publishing

In order that knowledge may not run riot, the author of the Gita has insisted on devotion accompanying it and has given it the first place.

Mahatma Gandhi
Running, Order, Gita
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.37, Courier Corporation

The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary.

Mahatma Gandhi
Perfection, Gita, Krishna
Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi”, p.18, North Atlantic Books

If Gandhism means simply mechanically turning the spinning wheel, it deserves to be destroyed.

Mahatma Gandhi
Mean, Spinning, Wheels
Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

I have pinned my faith to the spinning wheel. On it, I believe, the salvation of this country depends.

Mahatma Gandhi
Country, Believe, Spinning
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

My heart is drawn backwards and forwards between the spinning wheel and books.

Mahatma Gandhi
Book, Heart, Spinning

For every minute that I spin, there is in me the consciousness that I am adding to the nation's wealth.

Mahatma Gandhi
Consciousness, Wealth, Minutes
Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi (1945). “Tagore and Gandhi Argue”

The spinning wheel and the spinning wheel alone will solve, if anything will solve, the problem of the deepening poverty of India.

Mahatma Gandhi
India, Spinning, Poverty
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”