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Mahatma Gandhi Quotes - Page 80

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As in laws or in war, the longest purse finally wins.

As in laws or in war, the longest purse finally wins.

War, Winning, Law

Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “Third Class in Indian Railways”, p.48, Cosimo, Inc.

God's word is: 'He who strives never perishes.' I have implicit faith in that promise. Though, therefore, from my weakness I fail a thousand times, I shall not lose faith.

Promise, Weakness, Failing

Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.69, A&C Black

The wind of God's grace is incessantly blowing. Lazy sailors on the sea of life do not take advantage of it. But the active and strong always keep the sails of their minds unfurled to catch the favorable winds and thus reach their destination very soon.

Strong, Wind, Sea

Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants.

Real, Civilization, Want

Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.58, Rajpal & Sons

I own no enemy on earth. That is my creed.

Enemy, Earth, Creeds

Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.297, Vintage

But success and failure are of no account. They are God's concern, not mine.

Failure, Concern, Accounts

Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.271, Vintage

Let our first act each morning be the following resolve: I shall not fear anyone on Earth. I shall fear only God.

Faith, Morning, Earth

I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence.

Secret, Weapons, Violence

Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.43, Hackett Publishing

It is no non-violence if we merely love those that love us. It is non-violence only when we love those that hate us.

Hate, Violence, Non Violence

Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.82, A&C Black

Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy. I did not move a muscle when I first heard that the atom bomb had wiped out Hiroshima. On the contrary, I said to myself, Unless now the world adopts non-violence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind.

Suicide, Moving, Atoms

Mahatma Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Truth and Non-Violence”, Clarendon Press

Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave.

Brave, Weapons, Shields

If there was any teacher in the world who insisted upon the inexorable law of cause and effect, it was Gautam, and yet my friends, the Buddhists outside India, would, if they could, avoid the effects of their own acts.

Teacher, Buddhist, Law

Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

We Indians are one as no two Englishmen are.

Two, India, Englishmen

Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.25, Penguin Books India

The khadi spirit means also an infinite patience.

Mean, Spirit, Infinite

A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can certainly take to physical labour.

Writing, Men, Tables

A scavenger who works in His service shares equal distinction with a king who uses his gifts in His name and is a mere trustee.

Kings, Names, Use

Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.66, Rajpal & Sons

The fact that mankind persists shows that the cohesive force is greater than the disruptive force, centripetal force greater than centrifugal.

Men, Facts, Force

Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

All great religions have rightly regarded kama as the arch-enemy of man, anger or hatred coming only in the second place.

Men, Hatred, Enemy

Mahatma Gandhi (1976). “Collected Works”

Every species, human and subhuman, has some distinguishing mark, so that you can tell a man from a beast, or a dog from a cow.

Dog, Men, Cows

Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.

Responsibility, Conquer, Accepting

Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

Nations are not formed in a day, the formation requires years.

Years, Nations, Formation

Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “Hind Swaraj”, p.20, Rajpal & Sons

Freedom of a nation cannot be won by solitary acts of heroism though they may be of the true type, never by heroism so called.

Heroism, May, Type

Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

A nation that is unfit to fight cannot, from experience, prove the virtue of not fighting.

Fighting, Virtue, Prove

Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.105, Tara Publishing

Appreciation of nonviolence means patient research and still more patient and difficult practice.

Appreciation, Mean, Practice

Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.180, Oxford University Press

Truth and nonviolence are both the means and the end, and given the right type of men, the legislatures can be the means of achieving the concrete pursuit of truth and nonviolence.

Mean, Men, Achieve

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

Born: October 2, 1869 - January 30, 1948
Occupation: Civil rights leader

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