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Nonviolence in politics is a new weapon in the process of evolution; its vast possibilities are yet unexplored.

Nonviolence in politics is a new weapon in the process of evolution; its vast possibilities are yet unexplored.

Mahatma Gandhi
Peace, Weapons, Evolution
Mahatma Gandhi (1960). “Congress and Its Future”

Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you.

Mahatma Gandhi
Peace, Faces, Violence

Nonviolence succeeds only when we have a real living faith in God.

Mahatma Gandhi
Faith, Real, Succeed
Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.

Mahatma Gandhi
Writing, Action, Academic
Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.9, Oxford University Press

Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.

Mahatma Gandhi
Self, Fasting, Longing
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.28, A&C Black

If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef-tea or mutton, even under medical advice, I would prefer death.

Mahatma Gandhi
Advice, Tea, Beef
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

A living faith cannot be manufactured by the rule of majority

Mahatma Gandhi
Faith, Majority
Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

If everyone will try to understand the core of his own religion and adhere to it, and will not allow false teachers to dictate to him, there will be no room left for quarrelling.

Mahatma Gandhi
Teacher, Religion, Trying
Mahatma Gandhi, Anthony J. Parel (1997). “Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings”, p.56, Cambridge University Press

When a tiger changes his nature, Englishmen will change theirs.

Mahatma Gandhi
Englishmen, Tigers
Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.134, Oxford University Press

The cry for peace will be a cry in the wilderness, so long as the spirit of nonviolence does not dominate millions of men and women.

Mahatma Gandhi
Men, Long, Doe
Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.56, Oxford University Press

Remember there is always a limit to self-indulgence, none to restraint... Civilization , in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication but in the deliberate and voluntary restriction of wants. This alone promotes real happiness and contentment , and increases the capacity for service .

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Real, Self, Civilization

A love that is based on the goodness of those whom you love is a mercenary affair.

Mahatma Gandhi
Love, Affair, Goodness
Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.165, Vintage

I believe that the civilization India evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by our ancestors, Rome went, Greece shared the same fate; the might of the Pharaohs was broken; Japan has become Westernized; of China nothing can be said; but India is still, somehow or other, sound at the foundation.

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Believe, Fate, Japan
Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.73, Oxford University Press

Watches may disagree, but let us not.

Mahatma Gandhi
Atheism, May, Watches

If the poet spun for half an hour daily, his poetry would gain in richness.

Mahatma Gandhi
Half, Gains, Poet
Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it.

Mahatma Gandhi
Civilization, People, Disease
Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.18, Penguin Books India

Non-co-operation is a movement intended to invite Englishmen to co-operate with us on honourable terms or retire from our land.

Mahatma Gandhi
Land, Movement, Language
Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “Volume of prefaces”

God to be God must rule the heart and transform it.

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God, Heart
Address at Kingsley Hall, delivered 17 October 1931, London

God the Compassionate and the Merciful, Tolerance incarnate, allows Mammon to have his nine days' wonder.

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God, Tolerance, Nine
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.240, Rajpal & Sons

God will cease to be God, if he brought into being a single person with the hall-mark of inferiority.

Mahatma Gandhi
God, Inferiority, Mark
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

If we could all give our own definitions of God, there would be as many definitions as there are men and women.

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God, Men, Giving
Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.195, Vintage

In a strictly scientific sense God is at the bottom of both good and evil.

Mahatma Gandhi
God, Evil, Good And Evil
Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.21, North Atlantic Books

In the Gita continuous concentration on God is the king of sacrifices.

Mahatma Gandhi
God, Kings, Sacrifice
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.40, Courier Corporation

Its unadulterated belief in the oneness of God and a practical application of the truth of the brotherhood of man for those who are nominally within its fold are two distinctive contributions of Islam.

Mahatma Gandhi
God, Men, Brotherhood Of Man
Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.221, Tara Publishing

It is better to be charged with cowardice and weakness than to be guilty of denial of our oath and sin against God.

Mahatma Gandhi
God, Weakness, Denial
Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.153, Penguin Books India