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Mahatma Gandhi Quotes - Page 83

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True paurusha, true bravery, consists in driving out the brute in us.

True paurusha, true bravery, consists in driving out the brute in us.

Bravery, Brave, Driving

Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works: (1918:Aug.-1919:Jul.)”

Active nonviolence of the brave puts to flight thieves, dacoits, murderers, and prepares an army of volunteers ready to sacrifice themselves in quelling riots, in extinguishing fires and feuds, and so on.

Army, Sacrifice, Fire

Mahatma Gandhi (1976). “Collected Works”

Character alone will have real effect on the masses.

Real, Character, Mass

Renunciation is the central sun, round which devotion, knowledge and the rest revolve like planets.

Knowledge, Sun, Devotion

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

Liberty is a dearly bought commodity and prisons are factories where it is manufactured.

Liberty, Prison, Commodity

Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

No power on earth can resist the lovers of liberty who are ready not to kill opponents, but be killed by them.

Liberty, Earth, Opponents

Mahatma Gandhi, U. R. Rao (1963). “The Way to Communal Harmony”, Ahmedabad, [India] : Navajivan Publishing House

Individual liberty is allowed to man only to a certain extent. He cannot forget that he is a social being and his individual liberty has to be curtailed at every step.

Men, Liberty, Steps

Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

Peace is unattained by part performance of conditions, even as a chemical combination is impossible without complete fulfillment of the conditions of attainment thereof.

Peace, Impossible, Chemicals

Mahatma Gandhi (1993). “Gandhi on Nehru”

Not to believe in the possibility of permanent peace is to disbelieve in the Godliness of human nature.

Peace, Believe, Human Nature

Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.117, A&C Black

Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason.

Kind, Reason, Cases

Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.42, Courier Corporation

Even the dog is described by the poet to have received justice under Ramarajya.

Dog, Justice, Poet

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

Renunciation means absence of hankering after fruit.

Mean, Fruit, Absence

Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.38, Courier Corporation

Renunciation which is natural does not herald its coming by the blowing of trumpets. It comes in imperceptibly without letting anyone notice it.

Doe, Natural, Trumpets

Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

Renunciation made for the sake of service is an ineffable joy of which none can deprive anyone, because that nectar springs from within and sustains life.

Spring, Joy, Sake

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

He who gives up action falls. He who gives up the reward rises. But renunciation of fruit in no way means indifference to the result.

Giving Up, Fall, Mean

Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.38, Courier Corporation

That parrot's non-co-operation with the cage, with its master, will live for ever because it looks upon renunciation, non-co-operation, as a joy.

Joy, Looks, Cages

Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

An ideal sanctified by the sacrifices of such master spirits as Lenin cannot go in vain, the noble example of their renunciation will be emblazoned for ever and quicken and purify the ideal as time passes.

Sacrifice, Example, Noble

Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.97, Oxford University Press

Desirelessness or renunciation does not come for the mere talking about it.

Talking, Doe, Renunciation

Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.36, Courier Corporation

If all simply insist on rights and no duties, there will be utter confusion and chaos.

Rights, Confusion, Chaos

Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.49, Rajpal & Sons

The safest rule of conduct is to claim kinship when we want to do service and not to insist on kinship when we want to assert a right.

Want, Claims, Kinship

Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Young India”

Since one Satan is one too many for me, I would not multiply him.

Satan

Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.208, Tara Publishing

A fast to be true must be accompanied by a readiness to receive pure thoughts and determination to resist all Satan's temptations.

Determination, Temptation, Satan

Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Fasting in Satyagraha: Its Use and Abuse”

Unless all the discoveries that you make have the welfare of the poor as the end in view, all your workshops will be really no better than Satan's workshops.

Discovery, Views, Satan

Mahatma Gandhi (1969). “Collected Works”

Service is not possible unless it is rooted in love orahimsa.

Rooted

Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.67, Rajpal & Sons

The time is fast coming when politicians will cease to fear the religion of humanity and humanitarians will find entrance into political life indispensable for full service.

Political, Humanity, Politician

Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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

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