Materials Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

10 Materials quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

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Gandhi’s ten short reflections cut to the core of how we should treat physical resources, urging simplicity and purpose.

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High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship.

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You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.

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The force of nonviolence is infinitely more wonderful and subtle than the material forces of nature, like electricity.

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The commerce between India and Africa will be of ideas and services, not of the manufactured goods against raw materials after the…

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As a splendid palace deserted by its inmates looks like a ruin, so does a man without character, all his material belongings…

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True material welfare is never inconsistent with performance of religious obligations.

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A national spirit is necessary for national existence. A flag is a material aid to the development of such a spirit.

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Our non-co-operation is with the system the English have established in India, with the material civilization and its attendant greed and exploitation…

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Hinduism has made marvelous discoveries in things of religion, of the spirit, of the soul. We have no eye for these great…

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Of all the animal creations of God, main is the only animal who has been created in order that he may know…

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I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death…

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Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.

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No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.

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So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.

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I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.

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

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I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.

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“It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to…

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“Where there is life.”

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If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the…

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The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

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Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

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My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."

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I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.

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Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.

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