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Public opinion alone can keep a society pure and healthy.

Public opinion alone can keep a society pure and healthy.

Mahatma Gandhi
Struggle, Healthy, Public Opinion
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.353, Rajpal & Sons

Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the Europeans, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir whose occupation is hunting, and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with and, then, pass his life in indolence and nakedness.

Mahatma Gandhi
Struggle, Ambition, Hunting
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

I may not unnerve myself while I can struggle against evil.

Mahatma Gandhi
Struggle, Evil, May
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It is quite proper to resist and attack a system, but to resist and attack its author is tantamount to resisting and attacking oneself, for we are all tarred with the same brush, and are children of one and the same Creator, and as such the divine powers within us are infinite. To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that Being, but with Him, the whole world.

Mahatma Gandhi
Children, Struggle, World
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.84, A&C Black

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom, Mistake, Struggle
Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle, and a victory.

Mahatma Gandhi
Determination, Struggle, Accomplishment

I believe that cunning is not only morally wrong but also politically expedient, and have therefore always discountenanced its use even from the practical standpoint.

Mahatma Gandhi
Believe, Struggle, Use
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”

Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength, and there is nothing automatic or intuitive about the resoluteness required for using non-violent methods in political struggle and the quest for Truth.

Mahatma Gandhi
Struggle, Acceptance, Opposites
"Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr: The Power of Nonviolent Action". Book by Mary King, p. 231, 1999.

I am but a poor struggling soul yearning to be wholly good, wholly truthful and wholly non-violent in thought, word and deed, but ever failing to reach the ideal which I know to be true. It is a painful climb, but each step upwards makes me feel stronger and fit for the next.

Mahatma Gandhi
Spiritual, Struggle, Soul
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.56, A&C Black

Non-cooperation is directed not against men but against measures. It is not directed against the Governors, but against the system they administer. The roots of non-cooperation lies not in hatred but in justice if not in love.

Mahatma Gandhi
Lying, Struggle, Men

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

Mahatma Gandhi
Struggle, School, Government
Mahatma Gandhi (1969). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

If we want to cultivate a true spirit of democracy we cannot afford to be intolerant. Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

Mahatma Gandhi
Struggle, Democracy, Want
Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.27, Rajpal & Sons

Our struggle does not end so long as there is a single human being considered untouchable on account of his birth.

Mahatma Gandhi
Struggle, Long, Doe

A nonviolent struggle necessarily involves construction on a small scale. It cannot therefore lead to tamas or darkness or inertia.

Mahatma Gandhi
Struggle, Darkness, Construction

Non-cooperation is beyond the reach of the bayonet. It has found an abiding place in the Indian heart. Workers like me will go when the hour has struck, but non-cooperation will remain.

Mahatma Gandhi
Struggle, Heart, Bayonets

The Indian struggle is not anti-British, it is anti-exploitation, anti-foreign rule, not anti-foreigners.

Mahatma Gandhi
Struggle, Language, British
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

Mahatma Gandhi
Struggle, Moral Growth, Effort
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

Mahatma Gandhi
Peace, Struggle, Healthy
Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.

Mahatma Gandhi
Change, Inspiring, Struggle
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”

Man's triumph will consist in substituting the struggle for existence by a struggle for mutual service.

Mahatma Gandhi
Struggle, Men, Triumph
Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.63, Rajpal & Sons

Our struggle consists in showing that our nonviolence is neither a cloak to hide our violence or hatred, nor a preparation for violence in the near or distant future.

Mahatma Gandhi
Struggle, Hatred, Preparation
Mahatma Gandhi (1978). “Collected Works”

How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to atoms and even kill me. He will then have my dead body, not my obedience. Ultimately, therefore, it is I who am the victor and not he, for he has failed in getting me to do what he wanted done.

Mahatma Gandhi
Struggle, Independence, Bidding
Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.300, Vintage

Indeed one's faith in one's plans and methods is truly tested when the horizon before one is the blackest.

Mahatma Gandhi
Struggle, Horizon, Debate
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”

Non-cooperation is an attempt to awaken the masses, to a sense of their dignity and power. This can only be done by enabling them to realise that they need not fear brute force, if they but know the soul within.

Mahatma Gandhi
Struggle, Soul, Done

Insistence on truth can come into play when one party practices untruth or injustice. Only then can love be tested. True friendship is put to the test only when one party disregards the obligation of friendship.

Mahatma Gandhi
True Friend, Party, Struggle