“Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.”
Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
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Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
Source: All Men Are Brothers
Source: Collected Works
Source: All Men Are Brothers
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
Source: The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi
“A living faith in God means acceptance of the brotherhood of mankind.”
Source: Gandhigrams
“The man of prayer will be at peace with himself and with the whole world.”
Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
“Man will ever remain imperfect, and it will always be his part to try to be perfect.”
Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
Source: India of My Dreams
“Men aspiring to be free can hardly think of enslaving others.”
“Man does not live by destruction.”
Source: Gandhi: Selected Writings
“Man is not at peace with himself till he has become like unto God.”
Source: The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi
“A man who would interpret the scriptures must have the spiritual discipline.”
Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts
“Man is neither mere intellect not the gross animal body, nor the heart or soul alone.”
“Man cannot breathe with borrowed lungs.”
Source: Collected Works
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.”
Source: Volume of prefaces
“Man is the maker of his own destiny, and I therefore ask you to become makers of your own destiny.”
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas
“The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.”
Source: Hindu Dharma
“A courageous man prefers death to the surrender of self-respect.”
Source: Homage to the Departed
“Nonviolence is the virtue of the manly. The coward is innocent of it.”
Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts
“Bravery is not man's monopoly.”
Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects
Source: All Men are Brothers: Life and Thoughts of Mahatma Gandhi as Told in His Own Words
“Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.”
“Man is born of woman, he is flesh of her flesh and bone of her bone.”
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
Source: Gandhi on Women: Collection of Mahatma Gandhi's Writings and Speeches on Women
Source: The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings
“No man could look upon another as his enemy, unless he first became his own enemy.”
Source: To the Protagonists of Pakistan
“Man cannot be transformed from bad to good overnight.”
Source: The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi
“It is for you and me to show that no vice is inherent in man.”
Source: Collected Works
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
Source: The Penguin Gandhi Reader
“The Swaraj of my dream is the poor man's Swaraj.”
Source: India of My Dreams
“It is my firm faith that man is by nature going higher.”
Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas
Source: All Men Are Brothers
Source: Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings
“I believe in conversion of mankind, not its destruction.”
Source: The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation
“I hold no man to be indispensable for the welfare of the country.”
Source: Young India, 1924-1926
“I cannot picture to myself a time when all mankind will have one religion.”
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas