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

Wine, Power, Race

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

Men should do their actual living and working in communities small enough to permit of genuine self-government and the assumption of personal responsibilities, federated into larger units in such a way that the temptation to abuse great power should not arise.

Mahatma Gandhi

Responsibility, Power, Men

Power is of two kinds: one is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love.

Mahatma Gandhi

Love, Power, Greatest Fear

Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Mean, Power, Political

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

There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed.

Mahatma Gandhi

Power, Hunger And Poverty, Hunger Poverty

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

Inspirational, Funny, Power

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”

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Power, Enemy, Allies

Real power does not consist in the ability to inflict capital punishment upon the subjects, but in the will and the ability to protect the subjects against the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

Real, Power, Punishment

Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

There is an indefinable mysterious Power that pervades everything.

Mahatma Gandhi

Power, Mysterious, Indefinable

Address at Kingsley Hall, delivered 17 October 1931, London

Whilst power, superimposed, always needs the help of the police and the military, power generated from within should have little or no use of them.

Mahatma Gandhi

Military, Power, Should Have

Steam becomes a mighty power only when it allows itself to be imprisoned in a strong little reservoir, produces tremendous motion and carries huge weights by permitting itself a tiny and measured outlet.

Mahatma Gandhi

Strong, Power, Weight

Mahatma Gandhi (1993). “Gandhi on Nehru”

The moment the cultivators of the soil realize their power, the evil of Zamindari will be sterilized.

Mahatma Gandhi

Power, Evil, Soil

How heavy is the toll of sins and wrong that wealth, power and prestige exact from man.

Mahatma Gandhi

Power, Men, Tolls