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I look upon an increase in the power of the State with the greatest fear because, although while apparently doing good by minimizing exploitation, it does the greatest harm to mankind by destroying individuality which

I look upon an increase in the power of the State with the greatest fear because, although while apparently doing good by minimizing exploitation, it does the greatest harm to mankind by destroying individuality which lies at the heart of all progress.

Mahatma Gandhi
Lying, Heart, Greatest Fear
Interview with Nirmal Kumar Bose on 9-10 November 1934, Modern Review, p. 412, October 1935.

I believe in the essential unity of all that lives. Therefore, I believe that if one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains, and that if one person falls, the whole world falls to that extent.

Mahatma Gandhi
Believe, Fall, Diversity

In this day of wonders no one will say that a thing or an idea is worthless because it is new. To say it is impossible because it is difficult is again not in consonance with the spirit of the age. Things undreamt of are daily being seen, the impossible is ever becoming possible.

Mahatma Gandhi
Ideas, Age, Anarchy
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.84, A&C Black

Even if masses of people were to burn khadi publicly and say that it is an insane programme, I will declare that those people have gone mad.

Mahatma Gandhi
People, Mad, Insane
Mahatma Gandhi (1969). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

A vow must lead one upwards, never downwards towards perdition.

Mahatma Gandhi
Vow, Perdition
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.57, Courier Corporation

Indeed one's faith in one's plans and methods is truly tested when the horizon before one is the blackest.

Mahatma Gandhi
Struggle, Horizon, Debate
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”

Non-cooperation is an attempt to awaken the masses, to a sense of their dignity and power. This can only be done by enabling them to realise that they need not fear brute force, if they but know the soul within.

Mahatma Gandhi
Struggle, Soul, Done

Insistence on truth can come into play when one party practices untruth or injustice. Only then can love be tested. True friendship is put to the test only when one party disregards the obligation of friendship.

Mahatma Gandhi
True Friend, Party, Struggle

I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it . . .

Mahatma Gandhi
Giving, Death Penalty, Gallows
"India must do away with the death penalty" by Seema Sengupta, www.theguardian.com. November 23, 2012.

Truth is transcendent. There are many expressions of it and ways to glimpse it. We cannot hold it in our clenched fist, but must hold it in our open palm and invite others to see it for themselves.

Mahatma Gandhi
Expression, Glimpse, Fists

The first condition of humaneness is a little humility and a little diffidence about the correctness of one's conduct and a little receptiveness.

Mahatma Gandhi
Humility, Littles, Firsts
Mahatma Gandhi (1970). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

The devotee of truth is often obliged to grope in the dark.

Mahatma Gandhi
Dark, Truth Is, Obliged
Mahatma Gandhi (1928). “Young India”

Yet even differences prove helpful, where there are tolerance, charity and Truth.

Mahatma Gandhi
Differences, Tolerance, Charity
Mahatma Gandhi, General Press (2014). “My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.249, GENERAL PRESS

Suffering cheerfully endured, ceases to be suffering and is transmuted into an ineffable joy.

Mahatma Gandhi
Joy, Suffering, Ineffable
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.91, Courier Corporation

Purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one's surroundings.

Mahatma Gandhi
Purity, Surroundings, Purification
Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.454, Courier Corporation

Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.

Mahatma Gandhi
Humility, Selfishness, Egotism
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.50, Courier Corporation

All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.

Mahatma Gandhi
Kindness, Disease, Crime
Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

If one does not practice nonviolence in one's own personal relations with others and hopes to use it in bigger affairs, one is vastly mistaken.

Mahatma Gandhi
Mistake, Practice, Doe

God speaks to us every day only we don't know how to listen.

Mahatma Gandhi
Listening, Speak, Know How

Truthful movements spontaneously attract to themselves all manner of pure and disinterested help.

Mahatma Gandhi
Truth, Movement, Awakening
Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.87, Vintage

Life will not be a pyramid with the apex sustained by the bottom, but an oceanic circle whose centre will be the individual.

Mahatma Gandhi
Circles, Pyramids, Anarchy
Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.158, Oxford University Press

Nature can provide for the needs of people; [she] can't provide for the greed of people.

Mahatma Gandhi
Inspirational, People, Greed

I can combine the greatest love with the greatest opposition to wrong.

Mahatma Gandhi
Peace, Greatest Love, Opposition
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.116, A&C Black

We want to go in for suffering, and there may be torture. If we put the women in front the Government may hesitate to inflict on us all the penalty that they might otherwise inflict.

Mahatma Gandhi
Government, History, Suffering
Mahatma Gandhi (1930). “Young India”

True happiness brings more richness than all the money in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi
World, True Happiness, Richness