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Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

Mahatma Gandhi
Leadership, Errors, Stronger

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

Mahatma Gandhi
Rights, Flow, Duty
Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.62, New Directions Publishing

True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it.

Mahatma Gandhi
Spiritual, Track, Patriotism
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.169, A&C Black

The real seat of taste was not the tongue but the mind

Mahatma Gandhi
Real, Mind, Taste
Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.50, Courier Corporation

The man has not the power to create life. Therefore, he has not either, the right to destroy it.

Mahatma Gandhi
Men, He Man

Even the most sublime ideas sound ridiculous if heard too often. Be the change that you want to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi
Often Is, Ideas, Sublime

It is a mark of wisdom not to kick away the very step from which we have risen higher. The removal of one step from a staircase brings down the whole of it.

Mahatma Gandhi
Steps, Staircases, Mark
Mahatma Gandhi (1963). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

We may never be strong enough to be entirely non-violent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep non-violence as our goal and make steady progress towards it.

Mahatma Gandhi
Inspirational, Being Strong, Peace
"Gandhi on Non-Violence".

When you surrender completely to God, as the only truth worth having, you find yourself in service of all that exists. It becomes your joy and recreation. You never tire of serving others.

Mahatma Gandhi
Joy, Finding Yourself, Serving Others

I am a seasoned soldier of nonviolence, and I have evidence enough to sustain my faith.

Mahatma Gandhi
Faith, Soldier, Enough
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.101, A&C Black

God will not be God, if He allowed Himself to be the object of proof by His creatures.

Mahatma Gandhi
God, Proof, Creatures
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.41, Rajpal & Sons

If I could persuade myself that I could find Him in a Himalayan cave I would proceed there immediately.

Mahatma Gandhi
God, Caves, If I Could

A pacifism which can see the cruelties only of occasional military warfare and is blind to the continuous cruelties of our social system is worthless.

Mahatma Gandhi
Military, Warfare, Poverty
Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.285, Vintage

It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even mortal persecution.

Mahatma Gandhi
Fear, Atheism, Reform
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.81, Courier Corporation

Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence.

Mahatma Gandhi
Views, Opponents, Violence

All our philosophy is as dry as dust if it is not immediately translated into some act of living service.

Mahatma Gandhi
Philosophy, Inspiration, Dust
Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Selected letters”

Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it.

Mahatma Gandhi
Truth, Abstract, Prove
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”

Breach of promise is no less an act of insolvency than a refusal to pay one's debt.

Mahatma Gandhi
Truth, Promise, Debt
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”

Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth & violence. Even if my belief is a fond delusion, it will be admitted that it is a fascinating delusion.

Mahatma Gandhi
Outcomes, Violence, Belief
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.78, A&C Black

Non-violence is not a quality to be evolved or expressed to order. It is an inward growth depending for sustenance upon intense individual effort.

Mahatma Gandhi
Individual Effort, Order, Growth
Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

Means are not to be distinguished from ends. If violent means are used, there will be bad results.

Mahatma Gandhi
Mean, Violent, Used
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.89, Courier Corporation

Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger... . Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice.

Mahatma Gandhi
Running, Doe, Violence
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.98, A&C Black

Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice.

Mahatma Gandhi
Elements, Arms, Cowardice
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.97, A&C Black

My nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving the dear ones unprotected.

Mahatma Gandhi
Running, Dear Ones, Leaving

Think of the poorest person you know and see if your next act will be of any use to him.

Mahatma Gandhi
Thinking, Use, Next