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Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary.

War, Sunset, Victory And Defeat

Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works”

Mere brave speech without action is letting off useless steam.

Bravery, Useless, Speech

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

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Mahatma Gandhi

Inspirational, Friendship, Wise

Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.62, New Directions Publishing

Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood.

Mahatma Gandhi

Country, Women, Dowry

Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.213, Rajpal & Sons

A rabbit that runs away from the bull-terrier is not particularly non-violent.

Mahatma Gandhi

Running, Rabbits, Bulls

Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

Faith, Truth, Moral Growth

Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”

Religious truth, or for that matter any truth, requires a calm and meditative atmosphere for its percolation.

Mahatma Gandhi

Religious, Truth, Atmosphere

Mahatma Gandhi (1974). “Collected Works”

The world is changing every moment, and is therefore unreal. It has non permanent existence.

Mahatma Gandhi

World, Moments, Existence

Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving.

Mahatma Gandhi

Life, Nature, Law

Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.76, Courier Corporation

It Is possible to live in peace.

Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness, Peace, Passion

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

Mahatma Gandhi

Love, Inspirational, Family

In a society based on nonviolence, the smallest nation will feel as tall as the tallest.

Mahatma Gandhi

Feels, Smallest, Nonviolence

Mahatma Gandhi (1977). “Collected Works”

Untouchability is a many-headed monster and forms, some of them so subtle as not to be easily detected.

Mahatma Gandhi

Monsters, Subtle, Form

Mahatma Gandhi (1973). “Collected Works”

If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality.

Mahatma Gandhi

Children, Men, Equality

To a man with an empty stomach food is God

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Food, Men, Poverty

Non-violence and cowardice are contradictory terms. Non-violence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice. Non-violence springs from love, cowardice from hate. Non-violence always suffers, cowardice would always inflict suffering. Perfect non-violence is the highest bravery. Non-violent conduct is never demoralising; cowardice always is.

Mahatma Gandhi

Courage, Hate, Spring

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

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

Mahatma Gandhi

Peace, Truth, Vision

Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.43, A&C Black

Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.

Mahatma Gandhi

Doe, Violence, Civil Disobedience

Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

Employers ganging up against workers is like raising an army of elephants against ants.

Mahatma Gandhi

Army, Elephants, Employers

Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works”

To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face, one must be able to love the meanest of all creation as oneself.

Mahatma Gandhi

Spiritual, Able, Faces

Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.454, Courier Corporation

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom, 4th Of July, Men

Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

What you feel and how you react to something is always up to you. There may be a "normal" or a common way to react to different things. But that's mostly just all it is.

Mahatma Gandhi

Different, Up To You, World

I do believe that where there is a choice between cowardice and non-violence I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done, had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908, whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defended me, I told him that it was his duty to defend me even by using violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

Running, Believe, Son

Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.99, A&C Black

God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist.

Mahatma Gandhi

God, Atheist, Atheism

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

Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society.

Mahatma Gandhi

Law, Bread, Revolution

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

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