“Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it”
Source: Mahatma Gandhi: 100 years
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Famous Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
“If we wish to create a lasting peace we must begin with the children.”
Source: Collected Works
Source: The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words
Source: My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi
Source: Collected Works
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.”
Source: Gandhi on Non-violence
“If one takes care of the means, the end will take care of itself.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
Source: The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi
“There is nothing that wastes the body like worry.”
Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“Every fight is one between different angles of vision illuminating the same truth.”
“There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed.”
Source: Young India, 1924-1926
Source: Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime.”
Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts
“The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
Source: The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Civilization, Politics and Religion
“Adversity is the mother of progress.”
Source: Collected Works
“Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy.”
Source: Gandhi on Non-violence
“If love or non-violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces.”
Source: Gandhi on Non-violence
“That which looks for mercy from an opponent is not non-violence.”
Source: Collected Works
Source: Gandhi on Non-violence
“Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary.”
Source: Collected Works
Source: Gandhi on Non-violence
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi