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No matter how explicit the pledge, people will turn and twist the text to suit their own purpose

No matter how explicit the pledge, people will turn and twist the text to suit their own purpose

Mahatma Gandhi
People, Twists, Purpose
Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.52, Courier Corporation

Love is needed to strengthen the weak; love becomes tyrannical when it exacts obedience from an unbeliever.

Mahatma Gandhi
Love, Obedience, Weak
Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.228, Grove Press

The light of the world will illuminate within you when you fast and purify yourself.

Mahatma Gandhi
Light, World, Fasting

Retaliation is counter-poison and poison breeds more poison. The nectar of Love alone can destroy the poison of hate.

Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom, Hate, Democracy
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

If there is violence, it will certainly be crushed because violence can only end in a disgraceful rout.

Mahatma Gandhi
Violence, Ends, Crushed
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Mahatma Gandhi
Inspirational, Leadership, Time

Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.

Mahatma Gandhi
Christian, Spiritual, Jesus

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs... Surely it would be a crime against humanity to reduce the proud Arabs so that Palestine can be restored to the Jews partly or wholly as their national home

Mahatma Gandhi
Spiritual, Home, Humanity
Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.318, Grove Press

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.

Mahatma Gandhi
Inspirational, Freedom, Fall
Non-Violence in Peace and War (1949) vol. 2, ch. 5

Three quarters of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world would finish if people were to put on the shoes of their adversaries and understood their points of view

Mahatma Gandhi
Peace, Views, Shoes

If one takes care of the means, the end will take care of itself.

Mahatma Gandhi
Business, Mean, Advice
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.89, Courier Corporation

I am not likely to obtain the result flowing from the worship of God by laying myself prostrate before Satan.

Mahatma Gandhi
God, Worship, Satan
Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.42, Penguin Books India

The principle of ahimsa is hurt by every evil thought, by undue haste, by lying, by hatred, by wishing ill to anybody.

Mahatma Gandhi
Hurt, Lying, Evil
Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.226, Tara Publishing

Art to be art must soothe.

Mahatma Gandhi
Art
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.64, Rajpal & Sons

Every expression of truth has in it the seeds of propagation, even as the sun cannot hide its light.

Mahatma Gandhi
Truth, Light, Expression
Surendra Varmā, Mahatma Gandhi (1970). “Metaphysical Foundation of Mahatma Gandhi's Thought”

A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.

Mahatma Gandhi
Greatness, Poverty, Treats

God cannot be realized through intellect.

Mahatma Gandhi
God, Intellect
Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come by mere academic argument and appeal to reason and logic. Discipline is learnt in the school of adversity.

Mahatma Gandhi
School, Adversity, Iron
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”

Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.

Mahatma Gandhi
Men, Promise, Vow
Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.62, Grove Press

No reform is possible unless some of the educated and the rich voluntarily accept the status of the poor, travel third, refuse to enjoy the amenities denied to the poor and, instead of taking avoidable hardships, discourtesies and injustice as a matter of course, fight for their removal.

Mahatma Gandhi
Fighting, Justice, Reform
Mahatma Gandhi, General Press (2014). “My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.578, GENERAL PRESS

God chooses as His instrument the humblest and weakest of His creatures to fulfill Himself.

Mahatma Gandhi
God, Instruments, Creatures
Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Gandhigrams”

Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds.

Mahatma Gandhi
Peace, Odds, Justice
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

It is a first class human tragedy that people of the earth who claim to believe in the message of Jesus, whom they describe as the Prince of Peace, show little of that belief in actual practice.

Mahatma Gandhi
Jesus, Believe, Practice
Mahatma Gandhi (1993). “Gandhi on Nehru”

I can not give you the reference of Ram Chandar or Krishna, because they were not historical figures. I can not help it but to present to you the names of (Hazrat) Abu Bakar (RA) and (Hazrat) Umar Farooq (RA). They were leaders of a vast Empire, yet they lived a life of austerity.

Mahatma Gandhi
Names, Giving, Leader

If light can come out of darkness, then alone can love emerge from hatred.

Mahatma Gandhi
Love, Light, Hatred
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.104, Courier Corporation