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Surely conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows his creatures' hearts. A conversion without a clean heart is, in my opinion, a denial of God and Religion. Conversion without cleanliness of heart

Surely conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows his creatures' hearts. A conversion without a clean heart is, in my opinion, a denial of God and Religion. Conversion without cleanliness of heart can only be a matter of sorrow, not joy, to a godly person.

Mahatma Gandhi
Heart, Godly, Men
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”

Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas the former ruins the soul and there is no cure for it.

Mahatma Gandhi
Soul, Body, Ruins
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”

A dissolute character is more dissolute in thought than in deed. And the same is true of violence. Our violence in word and deed is but a feeble echo of the surging violence of thought in us.

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Character, Echoes, Violence
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”

To say that God permits evil in the world may not be pleasing to the ear. But if He is held responsible for the good, it follows that He has to be responsible for the evil too.

Mahatma Gandhi
Evil, Ears, World
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Light of India: The Message of the Mahatma”

I do not want my house to be rounded by walls and my windows to be closed to other cultures. I wish to become familiar with the culture of lands as much as possible but I will not permit them to affect me or shake me from my own status.

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Wall, Other Cultures, Land

If we are to stand the final heat of the battle, we must learn to stand our ground in the face of cavalry or baton charges and allow ourselves to be trampled under horses' hooves, or be bruised with baton charges.

Mahatma Gandhi
Horse, Atheism, Battle
Mahatma Gandhi (1971). “Collected Works”

Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As the author of satyagraha I cannot, consistently with my profession, suppress the vital part of myself for the sake of being able to write on permissible subjects. ... It would be like dealing with the trunk without the head.

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Writing, Expression, Atmosphere
Mahatma Gandhi (1951). “Satyagraha: Non-violent Resistance”

What, however, left a deep impression on me was the reading of the Ramayana before my father. During part of his illness my father was in Porbandar. There every evening he used to listen to the Ramayana.

Mahatma Gandhi
Father, Reading, Evening
Mahatma Gandhi (2008). “My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography”, p.48, Jaico Publishing House

Selfishness is blind.

Mahatma Gandhi
Selfishness, Blind
Mahatma Gandhi (2008). “My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography”, p.113, Jaico Publishing House

Duly Enlightened Gandhi's head by Mall of the 'Free Press Journal,' Bombay, in 1932Watches may disagree, but let us not.

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Atheism, May, Bombay

Everything we do is futile, but we must do it anyway.

Mahatma Gandhi

To a starving man, God can only appear in the form of bread.

Mahatma Gandhi
Men, Bread, Form

A full and candid admission of one's mistakes should make proof against its repetition.

Mahatma Gandhi
Mistake, Awareness, Proof
Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

The highest religion has been defined by a negative word: ahimsa.

Mahatma Gandhi
Negative Words, Ahimsa, Highest
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.442, Rajpal & Sons

Indeed, these errors and my prompt confessions have made me surer, if possible, of my insight into the implications of truth and ahimsa.

Mahatma Gandhi
Errors, Confession, Made
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”

Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been.

Mahatma Gandhi
Practice, Might, Imperfect
Mahatma Gandhi (1993). “Gandhi on Nehru”

The alphabet of ahimsa is best learnt in domestic school and I can say from experience that if we secure success there, we are sure to do so everywhere else.

Mahatma Gandhi
School, Alphabet, Ahimsa
Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.116, Penguin Books India

If any Englishman dedicated his life to securing the freedom of India, resisting tyranny and serving the land, I should welcome that Englishman as an Indian.

Mahatma Gandhi
Land, India, Welcome
Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.40, Penguin Books India

Personally I crave not for 'independence', which I do not understand, but I long for freedom from the English yoke.

Mahatma Gandhi
Long, Independence, Yoke
Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.153, Oxford University Press

Through the deliverance of India, I seek to deliver the so-called weaker races of the earth from the crushing heels of Western exploitation in which England is the greatest partner.

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Crush, Race, India
Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.74, Penguin Books India

To get rid of the infatuation for English is one of the essentials of Swaraj.

Mahatma Gandhi
Essentials, Language, Infatuation
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.170, Courier Corporation

A smattering of English is worse than useless; it is an unnecessary tax on our women.

Mahatma Gandhi
Useless, Language, Unnecessary
Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works”

There is as much need for a change of heart among the Hindus and Mussalmans as there is among the British, before a proper settlement is arrived at.

Mahatma Gandhi
Heart, Needs, Language
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

Let us learn from the English rulers the simple fact that the oppressors are blind to the enormity of their own misdeeds.

Mahatma Gandhi
Simple, Facts, Language
Gandhi (Mahatma) (1924). “Collected works”

The Britisher is the top dog and the Indian the underdog in his own country.

Mahatma Gandhi
Country, Dog, Language
Mahatma Gandhi (1942). “Quit India”