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For a satyagrahi brigade only those are eligible who believe in ahimsa and satya.

For a satyagrahi brigade only those are eligible who believe in ahimsa and satya.

Mahatma Gandhi
Believe, Satya, Satyagraha
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation”, Clarendon Press

Swaraj of a people means the sum total of the Swaraj (self-rule) of individuals.

Mahatma Gandhi
Mean, Self, People
Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.19, Rajpal & Sons

The pilgrimage to Swaraj is a painful climb.

Mahatma Gandhi
Painful, Pilgrimage, Climbs
Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1995). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.44, Hackett Publishing

For winning Swaraj one requires iron discipline.

Mahatma Gandhi
Winning, Iron, Discipline
Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Young India, 1924-1926”

The privilege of resisting or disobeying a particular law or order accrues only to him who gives willing and unswerving obedience to the laws laid down for him.

Mahatma Gandhi
Order, Law, Giving

Civilizations have come and gone and, in spite of our vaunted progress, I am tempted to ask again and again, 'To what purpose?'

Mahatma Gandhi
Civilization, Progress, Purpose
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.240, Rajpal & Sons

No police or military in the world can protect people who are cowards.

Mahatma Gandhi
Military, People, Police
Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.401, Tara Publishing

For me, Rama and Rahim are one and the same deity.

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Rama, Deities
Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “My Picture of Free India”

My Rama, the Rama of our prayers, is not the historical Rama, the son of Dasharatha, the king of Ayodhya.

Mahatma Gandhi
Kings, Prayer, Son
Mahatma Gandhi (1950). “Hindu Dharma”

It is the function of God Rama to destroy evil, wherever it occurs and it is equally the function of God Rama to give to his devotees like Bibhishana a free charter of irrevocable self-government.

Mahatma Gandhi
Government, Self, Evil

Ramanama can be used only for a good, never for an evil end, or else thieves and robbers would be the greatest devotees.

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Evil, Thieves, Would Be
Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Ramanama”

If India adopted the doctrine of love as an active part of her religion and introduced it in her politics. Swaraj would descend upon India from heaven. But I am painfully aware that that event is far off as yet.

Mahatma Gandhi
Heaven, India, Events
Mahatma Gandhi (2014). “Indian Home Rule”, p.8, The Floating Press

It is beyond my power to induce in you a belief in God. There are certain things which are self proved and certain which are not proved at all.

Mahatma Gandhi
Self, Belief, Certain
Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

It is impossible for me to reconcile myself to the idea of conversion after the style that goes on in India and elsewhere today. It is an error which is perhaps the greatest impediment to the world's progress toward peace. ... Why should a Christian want to convert a Hindu to Christianity? Why should he not be satisfied if the Hindu is a good or godly man?

Mahatma Gandhi
Christian, Godly, Men
Mahatma Gandhi (1957). “Christian Missions, Their Place in India”

Today I know that physical training should have as much place in the curriculum as mental training.

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Should Have, Training, Curriculum
Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.13, Courier Corporation

We are less than atoms, I say, because the atom obeys the law of its being, whereas we in the insolence of our ignorance deny the law of nature. But I have no argument to address to those who have no faith.

Mahatma Gandhi
Ignorance, Law, Atoms
Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.47, North Atlantic Books

My optimism rests on my belief in the infinite possibilities of the individual to develop nonviolence. . . . In a gentle way you can shake the world.

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Optimism, World, Way

Let the villages of the future live in our imagination, so that we might one day come to live in them!

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Imagination, One Day, Village

I care so deeply about this matter that I'm willing to take on the legal penalties, to sit in this prison cell, to sacrifice my freedom, in order to show you how deeply I care. Because when you see the depth of my concern, and how civil I am in going about this, you're bound to change your mind about me, to abandon your rigid, unjust position, and to let me help you see the truth of my cause.

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Sacrifice, Cells, Order

More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it.

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Fasting, Caution, Restraint
Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.309, Courier Corporation

A perfect mind comes from a perfect heart, not the heart known by a doctor's stethoscope but the heart which is the seat of God.

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Heart, Doctors, Perfect
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Light of India: The Message of the Mahatma”

Prayer needs no speech. It is in itself independent of any sensuous effort. But it must be combined with the utmost humility.

Mahatma Gandhi
Prayer, Humility, Independent
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.31, Courier Corporation

A heart-felt prayer is not recitation with the lips. It is a yearning from within which expresses itself in every word, every act, nay every thought of people.

Mahatma Gandhi
Prayer, Heart, People

Nonviolence is the law of the human race and is infinitely greater than, and superior to, brute force.

Mahatma Gandhi
Race, Law, Force
Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha in South Africa”

We must always seek to ally ourselves with that part of the enemy that knows what is right.

Mahatma Gandhi
Power, Enemy, Allies