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Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.

Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.

Mahatma Gandhi
Life, Purity, Vow
Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body.

Mahatma Gandhi
Mean, Practice, Body

If our ahimsa is not of the brave but of the weak, and if it will bend the knee before himsa, Gandhism deserves to be destroyed.

Mahatma Gandhi
Brave, Knees, Weak
Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

A votary of ahimsa always prays for ultimate deliverance from the bondage of the flesh.

Mahatma Gandhi
Flesh, Deliverance, Praying
Surendra Varmā, Mahatma Gandhi (1970). “Metaphysical Foundation of Mahatma Gandhi's Thought”

The cause is everything. Those even who are dearest to us must be shunted for the sake of the cause.

Mahatma Gandhi
Sake, Causes
Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Young India, 1924-1926”

First they ignore you, then they denounce you, and then they say that they knew what you were saying all the time.

Mahatma Gandhi
Firsts

The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country's and ultimately that of the whole of mankind.

Mahatma Gandhi
Country, Mean, Democracy
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.141, A&C Black

I am, and have been for years, a confirmed anti-vaccinationist...I have not the least doubt in my mind that vaccination is a filthy process that is harmful in the end.

Mahatma Gandhi
Years, Doubt, Mind

Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law.

Mahatma Gandhi
Law, Peaceful, Rebellion
Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.74, Hackett Publishing

The pure love of one soul can offset the hatred of millions.

Mahatma Gandhi
Love, Marriage, Hatred

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.

Mahatma Gandhi
Inspirational, Happiness, Stress

Non-co-operation in the political field is an extension of the doctrine as it is practised in the domestic field.

Mahatma Gandhi
Political, Doctrine, Fields
Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

Non-co-operation enables us to show that in everything that matters we can be independent of the Government.

Mahatma Gandhi
Independent, Government, Matter
Mahatma Gandhi (1988). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

It is nonviolent non-co-operation which evokes the highest spirit of self-sacrifice that will wean one from the error of one's ways.

Mahatma Gandhi
Sacrifice, Errors, Self

Nonviolence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-co-operation with evil.

Mahatma Gandhi
Evil, Submission, Penalties
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.145, Courier Corporation

There can be no nonviolence offered by the militarily strong.

Mahatma Gandhi
Strong, Nonviolence
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.143, Rajpal & Sons

Unexampled bravery, born of nonviolence, coupled with strict honesty shown by a fair number of Muslims, is sure to infect the whole of India.

Mahatma Gandhi
Honesty, Numbers, Bravery

The bravery of the nonviolent is vastly superior to that of the violent.

Mahatma Gandhi
Bravery, Violent, Superiors
Mahatma Gandhi (1993). “Gandhi on Nehru”

Our struggle consists in showing that our nonviolence is neither a cloak to hide our violence or hatred, nor a preparation for violence in the near or distant future.

Mahatma Gandhi
Struggle, Hatred, Preparation
Mahatma Gandhi (1978). “Collected Works”

The meticulous care for the rights of the least among us is the sin qua non of nonviolence.

Mahatma Gandhi
Rights, Care, Sin

That atomic energy though harnessed by American scientists and army men for destructive purposes may be utilised by other scientists for humanitarian purposes is undoubtedly within the realm of possibility. ... An incendiary uses fire for his destructive and nefarious purpose, a housewife makes daily use of it in preparing nourishing food for mankind.

Mahatma Gandhi
Army, Science, Men
Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha in South Africa”

Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.

Mahatma Gandhi
Gita, Devotion, Hearted
Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi”, p.19, North Atlantic Books

Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country.

Mahatma Gandhi
Country, Government, Self
Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.151, Penguin Books India

If we are to create peace in our world, we must begin with our children.

Mahatma Gandhi
Children, Our World, Peaceful

Dignity of human nature requires that we must face the storms of life.

Mahatma Gandhi
Life, Storm, Faces
Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”