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Mahatma Gandhi Quotes - Page 94

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Indeed, a civil resister offers resistance only when peace becomes impossible.

Indeed, a civil resister offers resistance only when peace becomes impossible.

Mahatma Gandhi
Resistance, Impossible, Offers
Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

Independence of my conception means nothing less than the realization of the "Kingdom of God" within you and on this earth.

Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom, Mean, Independence
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.319, Rajpal & Sons

For a firm believer in swadeshi, there need be no Pharisaical self-satisfaction in wearing khadi.

Mahatma Gandhi
Self, Needs, Satisfaction
Mahatma Gandhi (1966). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

Ravana was a rakshasa but this rakshasi of untouchability is even more terrible than Ravana.

Mahatma Gandhi
Untouchability, Terrible
Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

God's grace and revelation are the monopoly of no race or nation.

Mahatma Gandhi
God, Race, Revelations
Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “All Religions are True”

What is truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the 'voice within' tells you.

Mahatma Gandhi
Inspirational, Truth, Difficult Questions
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.67, A&C Black

I believe in the absolute oneness of God and therefore of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but one soul. . . . I know God is neither in heaven nor down below, but in everyone.

Mahatma Gandhi
God, Believe, Oneness
Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “The Essential Gandhi: His Life, Work, and Ideas : an Anthology”, Vintage

He who spins before the poor, inviting them to do likewise, serves God as no one else does.

Mahatma Gandhi
Doe, Poor, Serving God
Mahatma Gandhi (1950). “Hindu Dharma”

The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.

Mahatma Gandhi
Views, Energy, Reform
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.141, A&C Black

Man does not live by destruction.

Mahatma Gandhi
Men, Doe, Destruction
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.77, Courier Corporation

To me, God is Truth and Love; God is ethics and morality: God is fearlessness. God is the source of Light and Life and yet He is above and beyond all these. God is conscience... He is a personal God to those who need His personal presence. He is embodied to those who need His touch. He is the purest essence. He simply is to those who have faith. He is all things to all men.

Mahatma Gandhi
Godly, Men, Light
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.55, A&C Black

If we weep for all the deaths in our country, the tears in our eyes would never dry.

Mahatma Gandhi
Death, Country, Eye
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.39, Courier Corporation

The hater hates not for the sake of hatred but because he wants to drive away from his country the hated being or beings.

Mahatma Gandhi
Country, Hate, Hatred
Mahatma Gandhi (1981). “Collected Works”

My life has been full of external tragedies and if they have not left any visible effect on me, I owe it to the teaching of the Bhagavadgita.

Mahatma Gandhi
Teaching, Tragedy, Gita
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.186, Courier Corporation

My plea is for banishing the English language as a cultural usurper, as we successfully banished the political rule of the English usurper.

Mahatma Gandhi
Political, Usurpers, Language

In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. But in the past, non-cooperation has been deliberately expressed in violence to the evildoer. I am endeavoring to show my countrymen that violent non-cooperation only multiplies evil and that evil can only be sustained by violence. Withdrawal of support of evil requires complete abstention from violence. Non-violence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-cooperation with evil.

Mahatma Gandhi
Humble, Past, Evil
Courtroom statement, Ahmadabad, India, 23 Mar. 1922

The world is touched by sacrifice. It does not then discriminate about the merits of a cause. No so God - He is all seeing. He insists on the purity of the cause and on adequate sacrifice thereof.

Mahatma Gandhi
Sacrifice, Religion, Doe

Khaddar delivers the poor from the bonds of the rich and creates a moral and spiritual bond between the classes and the masses.

Mahatma Gandhi
Spiritual, Class, Moral
Shapurji Saklatvala, Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Is India Different?: The Class Struggle in India : Correspondence on the Indian Labour Movement and Modern Conditions”

The Gita distinguishes between the powers of light and darkness and demonstrates their incompatibility.

Mahatma Gandhi
Light, Darkness, Gita
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.126, Courier Corporation

The spinning wheel is not meant to oust a single man or woman from his or her occupation.

Mahatma Gandhi
Men, Occupation, Spinning
Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi (1945). “Tagore and Gandhi Argue”

Khaddar does not displace a single cottage industry.

Mahatma Gandhi
Doe, Cottages, Industry
Shapurji Saklatvala, Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Is India Different?: The Class Struggle in India : Correspondence on the Indian Labour Movement and Modern Conditions”

A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind.

Mahatma Gandhi
Country, Expression, Giving
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

He who has a living faith in God will not do evil deeds with name of God on his lips.

Mahatma Gandhi
God, Names, Evil
Mahatma Gandhi (1976). “Collected Works”

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

Mahatma Gandhi
Men, Race, Lust
Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be

Mahatma Gandhi
God, Listening Ear, Ears
Mahatma Gandhi (1981). “Collected Works”