Source: Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi
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Source: 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
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“The chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“True suffering does not know itself and never calculates.”
Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
“I must try to live in society and yet remain untouched by its pitfalls.”
Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects
“Every moment of my life I realize that God is putting me on my trial.”
Source: Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth
“Truth is superior to man s wisdom.”
Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
Source: Collected Works
Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace
Source: Collected Works
“Crime and vice generally require darkness for prowling. They disappear when light plays upon them.”
Source: 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
“Few men are wantonly wicked.”
Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas
“One may detest the wickedness of a brother without hating him.”
Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts
Source: The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: The voice of truth
“If she [woman] is weak in striking, she is strong in suffering.”
“If we develop the force of will, we shall find that we do not need the force of arms.”
Source: Communal Unity
“I believe all war to be wholly wrong.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing.”
Source: The Essential Gandhi: His Life, Work, and Ideas : an Anthology
“You cannot stop big wars if you carry on little wars yourselves.”
Source: The Essential Gandhi: His Life, Work, and Ideas : an Anthology
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
Source: Collected Works
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“My non-violence bids me dedicate myself to the service of the minorities.”
Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
Source: Gita: The Mother
“The light of the world will illuminate within you when you fast and purify yourself.”
“What the eyes are for the outer world, fasts are for the inner.”
Source: Fasting in Satyagraha: Its Use and Abuse
“More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it.”
Source: Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth
“Wherever flaxseeds become a regular food item among the people, there will be better health.”
Source: Light of India: The Message of the Mahatma
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“Truth and untruth often co-exist; good and evil often are found together”
Source: The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words
Source: The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha in South Africa
“We must always seek to ally ourselves with that part of the enemy that knows what is right.”