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There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.

There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.

Leadership, Spiritual, People

The whole world is in the throes of a new birth. Anything done for a temporary gain would be tantamount to an abortion.

Abortion, Would Be, Done

Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “To the Protagonists of Pakistan”

Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation and a wicked deed dis-approbation, the doer of the deed, whether good or wicked always deserves respect or pity as the case may be. Hate the sin and not the sinner is a precept which though easy enough to understand is rarely practised, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

Hate, Men, Two

An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth pt. 4, ch. 9 (1929)

Meditation is waiting on God.

Mahatma Gandhi

God, Meditation, Waiting

Mahatma Gandhi (1978). “Hindu Dharma”, p.107, Orient Paperbacks

What is Truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the "voice within" tells you. All that I can in true humility present to you is that Truth is not to be found by anybody who has not got an abundant sense of humility. If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth you must reduce yourself to zero.

Mahatma Gandhi

Zero, Integrity, Ocean

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

Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science.

Mahatma Gandhi

Vocabulary, Ahimsa

Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.128, Rajpal & Sons

Hinduism loses its right to make a universal appeal if it closes its temples to Harijans.

Mahatma Gandhi

Temples, Hinduism, Appeals

Mahatma Gandhi (1973). “Collected Works”

Wherever you are you will always be in my heart.

Mahatma Gandhi

Sympathy, Long Distance Relationship, Goodbye

Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth, World, Absolutes

Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.52, Rajpal & Sons

Forces of nature act in a mysterious manner. We can but solve the mystery by deducing the unknown result from the known results of similar events.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nature, Science, Events

Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.367, Tara Publishing

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

Mahatma Gandhi

Prayer, Weakness, Confession

Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.34, Courier Corporation

A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed.

Mahatma Gandhi

Government, India, Association

Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.112, Courier Corporation

Nonviolent action means mobilization of world opinion in our favour.

Mahatma Gandhi

Mean, World, Favour

Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

I hold no man to be indispensable for the welfare of the country.

Mahatma Gandhi

Country, Men, Welfare

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

Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation.

Mahatma Gandhi

Religion, Evolution, Imperfect

Mahatma Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Civilization, Politics and Religion”, Clarendon Press

Buddha emphasized and re-declared the eternal and unalterable existence of the moral government of this universe. He unhesitatingly said that the law was God Himself.

Mahatma Gandhi

God, Government, Law

Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.101, Rajpal & Sons

A spirit is not necessarily purer, because it is disembodied.

Mahatma Gandhi

Spirit, Purity, Purification

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”

There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence.

Mahatma Gandhi

Schemes, Compulsion, Nonviolence

Mahatma Gandhi (1976). “Collected Works”

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

Mahatma Gandhi

God, Truth, Treasure

Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.46, Oxford University Press

Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.

Mahatma Gandhi

Men, Greed, Enough

And everyone who wills can hear the Voice. It is within every one. But like everything else it requires previous and definite preparation.

Mahatma Gandhi

Voice, Intuition, Conviction

"Light of India: The Message of the Mahatma".

The scriptures of Christians, Mussalmans and Hindus are all replete with the teaching of ahimsa.

Mahatma Gandhi

Christian, Teaching, Scripture

Mahatma Gandhi (1978). “Hindu Dharma”, p.126, Orient Paperbacks

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

Mahatma Gandhi

Peace, School, Equality

Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.16, A&C Black

My knowledge of the letter of the Shastras is better, but of true religion they are able to give me but little.

Mahatma Gandhi

Giving, Religion, Letters

Mahatma Gandhi (1993). “Gandhi on Nehru”

It is a tragedy of the first magnitude that millions of people have ceased to use their hands as hands. Nature has bestowed upon us this great gift which is our hands. If the craze for machinery method continues, it is highly likely that a time will come when we shall be so incapacitated and weak that we shall begin to curse ourselves for having forgotten the use of the living machines given to us by God.

Mahatma Gandhi

Hands, People, Tragedy

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