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You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than

You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature.

Mahatma Gandhi
Christian, Peace, Biblical

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

Mahatma Gandhi
Inspirational, Peace, Thoughtful
Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen.

Mahatma Gandhi
Peace, Reputation, Crank
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.163, A&C Black

We must become the change we want to see.

Mahatma Gandhi
Inspirational, Change, Peace

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

Mahatma Gandhi
Wise, Fake People, Peace
Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.51, New Directions Publishing

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

Mahatma Gandhi
Peace, Children, Real
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”

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

Mahatma Gandhi
Inspirational, God, Peace
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”

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

Mahatma Gandhi
Life, Peace, Clever
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”

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Mahatma Gandhi
Love, Peace, Truth

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.

Mahatma Gandhi
Peace, Nature, Reflection

It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.

Mahatma Gandhi
Peace, War, Congratulations
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.120, Courier Corporation

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

Mahatma Gandhi
Inspirational, Spiritual, Peace
Mahatma Gandhi (1925). “Young India”

Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it

Mahatma Gandhi
Peace, Sobriety, Passive Aggressive
Gandhi (Mahatma), Horace Gundry Alexander, National Committee for the Gandhi Centenary (1968). “Mahatma Gandhi: 100 years”

Three quarters of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world would finish if people were to put on the shoes of their adversaries and understood their points of view

Mahatma Gandhi
Peace, Views, Shoes

Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds.

Mahatma Gandhi
Peace, Odds, Justice
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Mahatma Gandhi
Inspirational, Peace, War
Non-Violence in Peace and War (1942) vol. 1, ch. 142

With every true friendship, we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests.

Mahatma Gandhi
Friendship, Peace, True Friend

Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

Mahatma Gandhi
Peace, War, Blood
Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.70, New Directions Publishing

Non-violence is the article of faith.

Mahatma Gandhi
Faith, Peace, Violence

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

Mahatma Gandhi
Peace, Kindness, Sacrifice
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”

Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute, and he knows no law but that of physical might. The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher laws - to the strength of the spirit.

Mahatma Gandhi
Peace, Lying, Men
"The Doctrine Of The Sword". Young India, www.mkgandhi.org. August 11, 1920.

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.

Mahatma Gandhi
Courage, Peace, Sacrifice
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”

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

Mahatma Gandhi
Courage, Peace, Believe
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (2010). “Wof : Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi”, p.30, Penguin Books India

The very first step in nonviolence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance, loving kindness.

Mahatma Gandhi
Peace, Kindness, Humility
Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: The voice of truth”

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

Mahatma Gandhi
Courage, Peace, Men
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.81, A&C Black