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I see neither bravery nor sacrifice in destroying life or property, for offense or defense.

I see neither bravery nor sacrifice in destroying life or property, for offense or defense.

Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom, Sacrifice, Bravery

We shall dig our own grave if we do not purge ourselves of this curse of untouchability.

Mahatma Gandhi
Untouchability, Graves, Curse
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

If you don't ask, you don't get it

Mahatma Gandhi
Wonder, God Never Blinks, Powerful Music

Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.

Mahatma Gandhi
Inspirational, Funny, Power
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”

Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.

Mahatma Gandhi
Recovery, Addiction, Ascent
Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “Collected Works”

Be congruent, be authentic, be your true self.

Mahatma Gandhi
Inspiration, Self, Entrepreneur

To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that being but with him, the whole world.

Mahatma Gandhi
World, Divine Power, Harm
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.23, A&C Black

Good government is no substitute for self-government.

Mahatma Gandhi
Government, Self, Citizenship
Mahatma Gandhi (2014). “Freedom's Battle: Being a Comprehensive Collection of Writings and Speeches on the Present Situation”, p.74, The Floating Press

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

Mahatma Gandhi
Being Strong, Integrity, Men
Mahatma Gandhi (1978). “Collected Works”

We are the makers of our own state and...individuals who realize the fact need not, ought not, to wait for collective action.

Mahatma Gandhi
Inspirational, Waiting, Needs
Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.79, Vintage

Assumption of superiority by any person over any other is a sin against God and man.

Mahatma Gandhi
God, Men, Assumption
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.176, Courier Corporation

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.

Mahatma Gandhi
Technology, Suffering, Progress
1921 Speech, 13 Oct.

I have found by experience that man makes his plans to be upset by God, but, at the same time, where the ultimate goal is the search of truth, on matter how a man's plans are frustrated the issue is never injurious and often better than anticipated.

Mahatma Gandhi
Men, Issues, Goal
Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.270, Courier Corporation

Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.

Mahatma Gandhi
Peace, Satyagraha, Force
Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.77, A&C Black

Justice does not help those who slumber but helps only those who are vigilant.

Mahatma Gandhi
Justice, Doe, Slumber

What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated? What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy. What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals? The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Non-cooperation with evil is a sacred duty.

Mahatma Gandhi
Strong, War, Differences
Non-Violence in Peace and War (1942) vol. 1, ch. 142

Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses.

Mahatma Gandhi
Inspiring, Country, Numbers
Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.96, Tara Publishing

The more I study Hindu scriptures, and the more I discuss them with Brahmins, the more I feel convinced that untouchability is the greatest blot upon Hinduism.

Mahatma Gandhi
Scripture, Study, Hinduism
Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “None High: None Low”

Labour is a great leveler of all distinctions.

Mahatma Gandhi
Distinction, Labour
Mahatma Gandhi (1966). “Socialism of My Conception”

Healthy, well-informed, balanced criticism is the ozone of public life.

Mahatma Gandhi
Life, Ozone, Healthy
Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Gandhiji Expects: What the Father of the Nation Expected of People's Representatives”

Man's triumph will consist in substituting the struggle for existence by a struggle for mutual service.

Mahatma Gandhi
Struggle, Men, Triumph
Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.63, Rajpal & Sons

It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners.

Mahatma Gandhi
Wall, Writing, Men
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.98, Courier Corporation

Democracy and violence can ill go together.

Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom, Democracy, Together
Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1995). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.149, Hackett Publishing

The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom, Democracies Have, Democracy
Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.27, Rajpal & Sons

If it is possible for the human tongue to give the fullest description of God, I have come to the conclusion that God is Truth.

Mahatma Gandhi
God, Giving, Tongue
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.66, A&C Black