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Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence to the intellect and hatred is violence to the heart.

Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence to the intellect and hatred is violence to the heart.

Mahatma Gandhi
Peace, Attitude, War
Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

God took and needed no personal service. He served His creatures without demanding any service for Himself in return.

Mahatma Gandhi
God, Return, Needed
Mahatma Gandhi (1977). “Collected Works”

Jealousy does not wait for reasons.

Mahatma Gandhi
Jealousy, Waiting, Doe
Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.9, Courier Corporation

Economic equality is the master-key to nonviolent independence.

Mahatma Gandhi
Equality, Keys, Independence
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.126, A&C Black

Exploitation of the poor can be extinguished not by effecting the destruction of a few millionaires, but by removing the ignorance of the poor and teaching them to non-cooperate with their exploiters.

Mahatma Gandhi
Teaching, Ignorance, Poor
Mahatma Gandhi (1951). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”

Those with the greatest awareness have the greatest nightmares.

Mahatma Gandhi
Nightmare, Awareness

I don't reject Christ. I love Christ. It's just that so many of you Christians are so unlike Christ.

Mahatma Gandhi
Inspirational, Christian, Christ

We are all very imperfect and weak things, and if we are to destroy all whose ways we do not like, there will be not a man left alive.

Mahatma Gandhi
Men, Alive, Way
Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

Rights of true citizenship accrue only to those who serve the State to which they belong.

Mahatma Gandhi
Rights, Citizenship, States
Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.106, Hackett Publishing

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

Mahatma Gandhi
Faith, Religious, Motherhood
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.72, A&C Black

I know no diplomacy save that of truth.

Mahatma Gandhi
Truth, Diplomacy, Knows
Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.43, Hackett Publishing

A man who would interpret the scriptures must have the spiritual discipline.

Mahatma Gandhi
Spiritual, Men, Discipline
Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

Journalism should never be prostituted for selfish ends or for the sake of merely earning a livelihood or, worse still, for amassing money.

Mahatma Gandhi
Selfish, Sake, Earning
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

Is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater courage? Without her, man would not be. If nonviolence is to be the law of our being, the future is with women.

Mahatma Gandhi
Sacrifice, Men, Self
Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.148, A&C Black

If everybody lives by the sweat of his brow, the earth will become a paradise.

Mahatma Gandhi
Sweat, Earth, Paradise

When a man wants to make up with his Maker, he does not consult a third party.

Mahatma Gandhi
God, Party, Men
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

My religion enables me, obliges me to imbibe all that is good in all the great religions of the earth.

Mahatma Gandhi
Religion, Earth
Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “All Religions are True”

If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed � but hate these things in yourself, not in another.

Mahatma Gandhi
Peace, Hate, Ubuntu

You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature.

Mahatma Gandhi
Christian, Peace, Biblical

We notice that the mind is a restless bird; the more it gets the more it wants, and still remains unsatisfied. The more we indulge our passions the more unbridled they become. Our ancestors, therefore, set a limit to our indulgences. They saw that happiness was largely a mental condition. A man is not necessarily happy because he is rich, or unhappy because he is poor.... Millions will always remain poor.

Mahatma Gandhi
Happiness, Passion, Men
Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “Hind Swaraj”, p.50, Rajpal & Sons

The elephant needs a thousand times more food than the ant but that is not an indication of inequality.

Mahatma Gandhi
Equality, Elephants, Needs
Mahatma Gandhi (1981). “Collected Works”

Every fight is one between different angles of vision illuminating the same truth.

Mahatma Gandhi
Fighting, Vision, Different

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

Mahatma Gandhi
Education, Building Up, Religion
Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “True Education”

Truth is as hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.

Mahatma Gandhi
Truth Is, Adamant, Hard
Mahatma Gandhi (2008). “My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography”, p.163, Jaico Publishing House

Self-restraint is the very keystone of the ethics of vow-taking.

Mahatma Gandhi
Self, Ethics, Vow
Mahatma Gandhi (1950). “The Good Life”