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Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

Mahatma Gandhi
Peace, Heart, Being Sad
1926 War or Peace,'Young India'.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

Mahatma Gandhi
Men, Noble, Body
Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

I once Experimented with marijuna, next thing I know I'm waking up with blood on my hands.......and not my own blood.

Mahatma Gandhi
Blood, Hands, Wake Up

The very essence of democracy is that every person represents all the varied interests which compose the nation.

Mahatma Gandhi
Essence, Democracy, Interest
Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.24, Rajpal & Sons

Economics that hurt the moral well-being of an individual or a nation are immoral and, therefore, sinful.

Mahatma Gandhi
Hurt, Morality, Economics
Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.230, Grove Press

My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.

Mahatma Gandhi
Feelings, Unity, Working Together

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

Mahatma Gandhi
Ghana, Liable, Creeds
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

Self-respect knows no considerations.

Mahatma Gandhi
Respect, Self, Consideration

Disease increases in proportion to the increase in the number of doctors in a place.

Mahatma Gandhi
Doctors, Numbers, Disease
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.60, Courier Corporation

If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.

Mahatma Gandhi
Leadership, Faith, Character
Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Gandhigrams”

In our progress towards the goal, we ever see more and more enchanting scenery.

Mahatma Gandhi
Inspirational, Goal, Progress
Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

I have found that life persists in the midst of destruction and, therefore, there must be a higher law than that of destruction. Only under that law would a well-ordered society be intelligible and life worth living.

Mahatma Gandhi
Law, Destruction, Midst
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.82, A&C Black

But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

Mahatma Gandhi
Spiritual, Views, Liberty
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.68, A&C Black

When freedom is in jeopardy, non-co-operation may be a duty and prison may be a palace.

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

Khadi mentality means decentralization of the production and distribution of the necessaries of life.

Mahatma Gandhi
Mean, Distribution, Decentralization
Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.169, Oxford University Press

Newspapers should be read for the study of facts. They should not be allowed to kill the habit of independent thinking.

Mahatma Gandhi
Independent, Thinking, Facts

It will be necessary for us Indians - Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Jews, Parsis and all others to whom India is their home - to recognize a common flag to live and die for.

Mahatma Gandhi
Christian, Home, India
Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “My Picture of Free India”

I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience which is God.

Mahatma Gandhi
Giving, Religion, Liberty
Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Young India”

The spinning wheel for us is the foundation for all public corporate life.

Mahatma Gandhi
Foundation, Spinning, Wheels
Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Young India, 1924-1926”

Our children should not be so taught as to despise labour.

Mahatma Gandhi
Children, Taught, Should
Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.175, Rajpal & Sons

A nonviolent system of government is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists.

Mahatma Gandhi
Government, Long, Rich
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.126, A&C Black

The Gita is not for those who have no faith.

Mahatma Gandhi
Gita
Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi”, p.24, North Atlantic Books

I do not accept the orthodox teaching that Jesus was or is God incarnate in the accepted sense or that he was or is the only Son of God.

Mahatma Gandhi
God, Jesus, Teaching
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

Solitude is a catalyst for innovation

Mahatma Gandhi
Solitude, Innovation, Catalyst

Doubt is invariably the result of want or weakness of faith.

Mahatma Gandhi
Doubt, Weakness, Want
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.69, A&C Black