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It would conduce to national progress and save a great deal of time and trouble if we cultivated the habit of never supporting the resolutions either by speaking or voting for them if we had not either the intention or

It would conduce to national progress and save a great deal of time and trouble if we cultivated the habit of never supporting the resolutions either by speaking or voting for them if we had not either the intention or the ability to carry them out.

Mahatma Gandhi
Voting, Progress, Politics
Mahatma Gandhi (1970). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.

Mahatma Gandhi
War, Book, Law
Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.228, Grove Press

The only way love punishes in by suffering.

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Love, Suffering, Way

I realized the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. The lesson was so indelibly burnt into me that a large part of my time during the twenty years of my practice as a lawyer was occupied in bringing about private compromises of hundreds of cases. I lost nothing thereby -- not even money, certainly not my soul.

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Party, Years, Practice
Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.35, Vintage

Khadi is the sun of the village solar system.

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Village, Sun, Solar System
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Gospel of Swadeshi, by M.K. Gandhi”

Democracy comes naturally to him who is habituated normally to yield willing obedience to all laws, human or divine.

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Yield, Law, Democracy
Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.25, Rajpal & Sons

Truth, purity, self-control, firmness, fearlessness, humility, unity, peace, and renunciation - these are the inherent qualities of a civil resister.

Mahatma Gandhi
Humility, Self, Unity

Whatever can be useful to those starving millions is beautiful to my mind.

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Beautiful, Art, Mind
Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.181, Grove Press

Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.

Mahatma Gandhi
Men, Religion, Separating
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.17, Courier Corporation

If love wasn't the law of life, life would not have persisted in the midst of death.

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Life, Law, Free Love

A satyagrahi would neither retaliate nor would he submit to the criminal, but seek to cure him by curing himself.

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Criminals, Cures, Satyagraha
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Satyagraha (non-violent Resistance)”

In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one else could possibly reject the law of the final supremacy of brute force.

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

Every labourer is worthy of his hire. No country can produce thousands of unpaid whole-time workers.

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Country, Produce, Worthy
Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Young India, 1924-1926”

The man or the woman who can display the nonviolence of the brave can easily stand against as external invasion.

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Men, Brave, Invasion

Man's upward progress means ever increasing difficulty, which is to be welcomed.

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

I have made the world's faith in God my own and as my faith is effaceable, I regard that faith as amounting to experience.

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Faith, World, Made

The ideal that marriage aims at is that of spiritual union through the physical. The human love that it incarnates is intended to serve as a stepping stone to diving or universal love.

Mahatma Gandhi
Marriage, Spiritual, Unions

The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton.

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Law, Genius, Violence
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.54, Courier Corporation

Sanitation is more important than Independence.

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Independence, Important, Sanitation

God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth and He tries you through and through.

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God, Trying, Earth
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Light of India: The Message of the Mahatma”

We shall make progress towards Swaraj only if we do everything thoughtfully and with understanding.

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Understanding, Progress, Ifs
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

Imitation is the sincerest flattery.

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Leadership, Flattery, Imitation
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.21, Rajpal & Sons

Proved right should be capable of being vindicated by right means as against the rude i.e. sanguinary means. Man may and should shed his own blood for establishing what he considers to be his right. He may not shed the blood of his opponent who disputes his 'right'.

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Mean, Men, Blood
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment.

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Principles, Environment, Operations
Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.80, A&C Black

Out of the performance of duties flow rights, and those that knew and performed their duties came naturally by their rights.

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Rights, Flow, Duty
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”