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I believe that cunning is not only morally wrong but also politically expedient, and have therefore always discountenanced its use even from the practical standpoint.

I believe that cunning is not only morally wrong but also politically expedient, and have therefore always discountenanced its use even from the practical standpoint.

Mahatma Gandhi
Believe, Struggle, Use
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 courageous man prefers death to the surrender of self-respect.

Mahatma Gandhi
Men, Self, Courageous Man
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Homage to the Departed”

God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.

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Environmental, India, World
Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “My Picture of Free India”

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

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Love, Inspirational, Life
Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: The voice of truth”

Let your thoughts be positive for they will become your words. Let your words be positive for they will become your actions. Let your actions be positive for they will become your values. Let your values be positive for they will become your destiny.

Mahatma Gandhi
Destiny, Being Positive, Action

My freedom from hatred - I would even claim for myself individually, my love - for those who consider themselves to be my enemies, does not make me blind to their faults.

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Love, Hatred, Enemy
Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

It's not just words. Action expresses priorities.

Mahatma Gandhi
Priorities, Action

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Mahatma Gandhi
Inspirational, Peace, War
Non-Violence in Peace and War (1942) vol. 1, ch. 142

The whole world is like the human body with its various members. Pain in one member is felt in the whole body.

Mahatma Gandhi
Pain, World, Body
Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.19, North Atlantic Books

Satan's successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips.

Mahatma Gandhi
Names, Devil, Lips
Mahatma Gandhi (2014). “Freedom's Battle: Being a Comprehensive Collection of Writings and Speeches on the Present Situation”, p.144, The Floating Press

I believe that just as everyone inherits a particular form so does he inherit the particular characteristics and qualities of his progenitors, and to make this admission is to conserve one's energy.

Mahatma Gandhi
Believe, Quality, Energy
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation”, Clarendon Press

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment.

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Spiritual, Law, Unjust
Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.71, New Directions Publishing

I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the culture of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any

Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom, Land, Feet
Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.142, A&C Black

I recall having read, at the brothers' instance, Madame Blavatsky's Key to Theosophy. This book stimulated in me the desire to read books on Hinduism, and disabused me of the notion fostered by the missionaries that Hinduism was rife with superstition.

Mahatma Gandhi
Brother, Book, Keys
Mahatma Gandhi, General Press (2014). “My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.117, GENERAL PRESS

If I am true to myself, if I am true to mankind, if I am true to humanity, I must understand all the faults that human flesh is heir to.

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Men, Humanity, Flesh
Mahatma Gandhi (1993). “Gandhi on Nehru”

The real difficulty is that people have no idea of what education truly is. We assess the value of education in the same manner as we assess the value of land or of shares in the stock-exchange market. We want to provide only such education as would enable the student to earn more. We hardly give any thought to the improvement of the character of the educated. The girls, we say, do not have to earn; so why should they be educated? As long as such ideas persist there is no hope of our ever knowing the true value of education.

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Girl, Real, Educational
Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “True Education”

I think it is wrong to expect certainties in this world, where all else but God that is Truth is an uncertainty. All that appears and happens about and around us is uncertain, transient. But there is a Supreme Being hidden therein as a Certainty, and one would be blessed if one could catch a glimpse of that Certainty and hitch one's waggon to it. The quest for that Truth is the summum bonum of life.

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Blessed, Thinking, Glimpse
Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.223, Courier Corporation

No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom.

Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom, Liberty, Denial
Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.27, Rajpal & Sons

Truth is like a vast tree which yields more and more fruit the more you nurture it. The deeper the search in the mind of truth, the richer the discovery of the gems buried there.

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Yield, Discovery, Tree

Love is a rare herb that makes a friend even of a sworn enemy and this herb grows out of nonviolence.

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Love, Enemy, Herbs
Mahatma Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Civilization, Politics and Religion”, Clarendon Press

Government of the people by the people and for the people cannot be conducted at the bidding of one man, however great he may be.

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Men, People, India
Mahatma Gandhi (1983). “Collected Works”

Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. This is God's attribute alone. Relative truth is all we know. Therefore, we can only follow the truth as we see it. Such pursuit of truth cannot lead anyone astray.

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Understanding, World, Truth Is
Mahatma Gandhi (1981). “Collected Works”

I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of Hussein, the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers and his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle.

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Self, Simplicity, Islam
Young India article on September 23, 1924. "My Jail Experiences". Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Volume 29, p. 133, 1960.

God forbid that India should ever become a military nation, which would be a menace to the peace of the world, and yet if things went on as they were doing, what hope was there for India and, therefore, for the world?

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Military, India, Would Be
Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Communal Unity”

It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion toward our fellow creatures.

Mahatma Gandhi
Prayer, Animal, Blessing