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I am a poor mendicant. My earthly possessions consist of six spinning wheels, prison dishes, a can of goat's milk, six homespun loincloths and towels and my reputation, which cannot be worth much.

I am a poor mendicant. My earthly possessions consist of six spinning wheels, prison dishes, a can of goat's milk, six homespun loincloths and towels and my reputation, which cannot be worth much.

Mahatma Gandhi
Atheism, Goats, Towels
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.40, A&C Black

The concepts of truth may differ. But all admit and respect truth. That truth I call God. For sometime I was saying, "God is Truth," but that did not satisfy me. So now I say, "Truth is God."

Mahatma Gandhi
Atheism, May, Truth Is

My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible.

Mahatma Gandhi
Self, Tyrants, Suffering
Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.99, Hackett Publishing

Well, India is a country of nonsense

Mahatma Gandhi
Country, India, Nonsense
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.131, Courier Corporation

Truth and nonviolence demand that no human being may debar himself from serving any other human being, no matter how sinful he may be.

Mahatma Gandhi
Demand, May, Matter
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.

Mahatma Gandhi
Law, Giving, Deny

By patriotism I mean the welfare of the whole people, if I secure it at the hands of my opponent, I should bow down my head to him.

Mahatma Gandhi
Mean, Hands, People

It will profit you nothing to remember old wrongs and nurse old enmities.

Mahatma Gandhi
Nurse, Enmity, Remember
Mahatma Gandhi (1983). “Collected Works”

Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped by the grain. It is a heart grasp.

Mahatma Gandhi
Art, Reading, Religion

Peace is the state where love abides and seeks to share itself.

Mahatma Gandhi
Peace, Share, States

I am a Christian and a Hindu and a Muslim and a Jew.

Mahatma Gandhi
Christian, Jew

Weeding is as necessary to agriculture as sowing.

Mahatma Gandhi
Weed, Agriculture, Sowing
Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.221, Grove Press

Truth and ahimsa will never be destroyed.

Mahatma Gandhi
Ahimsa, Destroyed
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Homage to the Departed”

The path of Truth is as narrow as it is straight. Even so is that of ahimsa.

Mahatma Gandhi
Path, Truth Is, Ahimsa
Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.225, Tara Publishing

Cow-protection can only be secured by cultivating universal friendliness, i.e. ahimsa.

Mahatma Gandhi
Cows, Protection, Ahimsa

My ahimsa would not tolerate the idea of giving a free meal to a healthy person who has not worked for it in some honest way.

Mahatma Gandhi
Ideas, Giving, Healthy
Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.63, Rajpal & Sons

My errors have been errors of calculation and judging men, not in appreciating the true nature of truth and ahimsa or in their application.

Mahatma Gandhi
Men, Errors, Appreciate
Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

A soldier fights with an irresistible strength when he has blown up his bridges and burnt his boats. Even so, it is with a soldier of ahimsa.

Mahatma Gandhi
Fighting, Bridges, Soldier
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

If the lambs of the world had been willingly led, they would have long ago saved themselves from the butcher's knife.

Mahatma Gandhi
Long Ago, Knives, World
Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.74, Hackett Publishing

I would like to assure those who would serve Daridranarayana that there is music, art, economy and joy in the spinning wheel.

Mahatma Gandhi
Art, Joy, Spinning
Mahatma Gandhi (1969). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

Swaraj means, a state such that we can maintain our separate existence without the presence of the English.

Mahatma Gandhi
Mean, Language, States
Mahatma Gandhi (2014). “Freedom's Battle: Being a Comprehensive Collection of Writings and Speeches on the Present Situation”, p.73, The Floating Press

However virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India.

Mahatma Gandhi
India, May, Language
Mahatma Gandhi (1981). “Collected Works”

The English language is so elastic that you can find another word to say the same thing.

Mahatma Gandhi
Language, English Language, Englishmen
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage.

Mahatma Gandhi
Pride, Sake, Language
Mahatma Gandhi, K. Swaminathan (1988). “A Gandhi Reader”, Stosius Incorporated/Advent Books Division

It would be a sad day for India if it has to inherit the English scale and the English tastes so utterly unsuitable to the Indian environment.

Mahatma Gandhi
India, Would Be, Taste
Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works”