Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

"Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth."

"I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage."

"Where there is love there is life."

"Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love."

"My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind."

"A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave."

"Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding."

"There is more to life than simply increasing its speed."

"I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people."

"An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so."

"A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act."

"I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul."

"Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame."

"Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible."

"If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide."

"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."

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

"To believe what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man."

"Hatred can be overcome only by love."

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

"Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good."

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