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Mahatma Gandhi Quotes about Power

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No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world.

No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world.

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

Political power means the capacity to regulate national life through national representatives.

Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.163, Vintage

Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.

Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”

There is an indefinable mysterious Power that pervades everything.

Address at Kingsley Hall, delivered 17 October 1931, London