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Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.

Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.

Mahatma Gandhi
Truth, Doe, Hammers

The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to submit without protest to the penalty of disobedience ... not for want of respect for lawful authority, but in obedience to the higher law of our being, the voice of conscience.

Mahatma Gandhi
Men, Self, Law
Mahatma Gandhi (1923). “Letters on Indian Affairs”

I want India to come into her own and that state cannot be better defined by any single word than Swaraj.

Mahatma Gandhi
India, Want, States
Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.99, Hackett Publishing

Freedom of India will demonstrate to all the exploited races of the earth that their freedom is very near.

Mahatma Gandhi
Race, India, Earth
Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

To gain India's freedom, the capacity for suffering must go hand in hand with the capacity for ceaseless labour.

Mahatma Gandhi
Hands, Suffering, India
Mahatma Gandhi (1977). “Collected Works”

I want for India complete independence in the full English sense of that English term.

Mahatma Gandhi
Independence, India, Want
Mahatma Gandhi (1974). “Collected Works”

I would not sell the vital interests of the untouchables for the sake of winning the freedom of India.

Mahatma Gandhi
Winning, India, Sake
Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.268, Tara Publishing

I am wedded to India because I owe my all to her.

Mahatma Gandhi
India
Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.96, A&C Black

I hold too that whatever may be true of other countries, a bloody revolution will not succeed in India.

Mahatma Gandhi
Country, India, May
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

It is my unshakable belief that India's destiny is to deliver the message of nonviolence to mankind.

Mahatma Gandhi
Destiny, India, Messages

Disorder and violence are, in fact, things that might check the pace of India's progress.

Mahatma Gandhi
Progress, India, Pace

I regard Duryodhana and his party as the baser impulses in man, and Arjuna and his party as the higher impulses.

Mahatma Gandhi
Party, Men, Arjuna
Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.156, Vintage

I have discovered that man is superior to the system he propounds.

Mahatma Gandhi
Men, Mankind, Superiors
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.30, Courier Corporation

Some form of common worship and a common place of worship appear to be a human necessity.

Mahatma Gandhi
Men, Common, Worship
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.110, Rajpal & Sons

A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution.

Mahatma Gandhi
Selfish, Men, Purpose
Mahatma Gandhi (1971). “Collected Works”

No two men are absolutely alike, not even twins, yet there is much that is indispensably common to all mankind.

Mahatma Gandhi
Men, Two, Twins
Mahatma Gandhi (1997). “The Mahatma and the Poet: Letters and Debates Between Gandhi and Tagore, 1915-1941”, National Book Trust India

Mankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence.

Mahatma Gandhi
Men, Violence, Mankind
Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.32, New Directions Publishing

That which makes man the mere plaything of fate is God.

Mahatma Gandhi
Fate, Men, Mankind
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

If it is man's privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter - dependent.

Mahatma Gandhi
Independent, Men, Privilege
Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

A man of truth must ever be confident, if he has also equal need to be diffident.

Mahatma Gandhi
Men, Needs, Be Confident
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”

Man, through the cow, is enjoined to realize his identity with all that lives.

Mahatma Gandhi
Men, Identity, Cows
Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.170, Grove Press

Cow-slaughter and man-slaughter are in my opinion two sides of the same coin.

Mahatma Gandhi
Men, Two Sides, Coins
Mahatma Gandhi (1978). “Hindu Dharma”, p.124, Orient Paperbacks

If treachery is the reward of trust, will the man who trusts come to harm?

Mahatma Gandhi
Men, Rewards, He Man
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

Repression does for a true man or a nation what fire does for gold.

Mahatma Gandhi
Men, Fire, Gold
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation.

Mahatma Gandhi
Men, Exaltation, Degradation
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.81, A&C Black