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War is an unmitigated evil. But it certainly does one good thing. It drives away fear and brings bravery to the surface.

War is an unmitigated evil. But it certainly does one good thing. It drives away fear and brings bravery to the surface.

Mahatma Gandhi
Courage, War, Evil
Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.38, New Directions Publishing

I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.

Mahatma Gandhi
Wise, Loss, Self

Non-cooperation is beyond the reach of the bayonet. It has found an abiding place in the Indian heart. Workers like me will go when the hour has struck, but non-cooperation will remain.

Mahatma Gandhi
Struggle, Heart, Bayonets

Change occurs when deeply felt private experiences are given public legitimacy.

Mahatma Gandhi
Inspirational, Legitimacy, Given

Every living faith must have within itself the power of rejuvenation if it is to live

Mahatma Gandhi
Faith, Rejuvenation, Ifs
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.184, Courier Corporation

The soul of India lives in its villages.

Mahatma Gandhi
Soul, India, Village

God is that indefinable something which we all feel but which we do not know.

Mahatma Gandhi
God, Feels, Knows
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.238, Courier Corporation

A man of God never strives after untruth and therefore he can never lose hope.

Mahatma Gandhi
God, Men, Strive
Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Young India, 1924-1926”

There is no such thing as slow freedom. Freedom is like a birth. Till we are fully free we are slaves. All birth takes place in a moment.

Mahatma Gandhi
Birth, Moments, Slave
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.125, Courier Corporation

A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women

Mahatma Gandhi
Men, Coward, Doe
Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.33, New Directions Publishing

Enter with me into the sufferings, not only of the people of India but of the whole world. Nonviolence is a more active and real fight against wickedness than retaliation whose very nature is to increase wickedness. It is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.

Mahatma Gandhi
Real, Fighting, People

Ahimsa and Truth are my two lungs. I cannot live without them.

Mahatma Gandhi
Two, Ahimsa, Lungs
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.441, Rajpal & Sons

The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience.

Mahatma Gandhi
Persistence, Embodiment, Succeed
Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Young India, 1924-1926”

The turning of the charkha in a lifeless way will be like the turning of the beads of the rosary with a wandering mind turned away from God.

Mahatma Gandhi
Mind, Rosary, Way

Every woman will tell the curious that with the disappearance of the spinning wheel vanished India's happiness and prosperity.

Mahatma Gandhi
India, Spinning, Wheels
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.168, Courier Corporation

All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error.

Mahatma Gandhi
Faith, Errors, Imperfect
Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.61, A&C Black

Non-co-operation is a nation's determination to improve.

Mahatma Gandhi
Determination, Operations, Nations

The primary object of non-co-operation is nowhere stated to be paralysis of the Government. The primary object is self-purification.

Mahatma Gandhi
Government, Self, Purification
Mahatma Gandhi (1988). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

Real non-co-operation is non-co-operation with evil and not with the evil-doer.

Mahatma Gandhi
Real, Evil, Doers
Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

For the courage of self-sacrifice, woman is any time superior to man, as I believe man is to woman for the courage of the brute.

Mahatma Gandhi
Women, Believe, Sacrifice
Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

I think it would be an excellent idea.

Mahatma Gandhi
Thinking, Ideas, Civilization

Urbanization in India is a slow but sure death for her villages and villagers.

Mahatma Gandhi
Urbanization, India, Village
Mahatma Gandhi (1974). “Collected Works”

Man cannot breathe with borrowed lungs.

Mahatma Gandhi
Men, Breathe, Mankind
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

Men of stainless character and self purification will easily inspire confidence and automatically purify the atmosphere around them.

Mahatma Gandhi
Character, Men, Self
Mahatma Gandhi (1970). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

I must refuse to believe that the Germans contemplate with equanimity the evacuation of cities like London for fear of destruction to be wrought by man's inhuman ingenuity.

Mahatma Gandhi
Believe, Men, Cities
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.114, Courier Corporation