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Power Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

28 Power quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

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Mahatma Gandhi’s perspective on power is rooted in the principle of non‑violence, and the 28 excerpts illustrate his belief that true authority arises from moral clarity. The collection provides a steady reminder that restraint can be a force more potent than coercion.

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The control of the palate is a valuable aid for the control of the mind.

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The power we call God defies description.

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Change yourself - you are in control.

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When you make yourself into zero, your power becomes invincible.

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There is an indefinable mysterious Power that pervades everything.

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Political power means the capacity to regulate national life through national representatives.

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Power is of two kinds: one is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love.

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There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed.

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The moment the cultivators of the soil realize their power, the evil of Zamindari will be sterilized.

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An awakened people who rely upon their nonviolent strength are independent in the face of any conceivable combination of the armed powers.

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Whilst power, superimposed, always needs the help of the police and the military, power generated from within should have little or no…

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Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power.

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How heavy is the toll of sins and wrong that wealth, power and prestige exact from man.

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Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in…

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“Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based…

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Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the…

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There must be power in the word of a satyagraha general, not the power that the possession of limitless arms gives, but…

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I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy,…

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Men should do their actual living and working in communities small enough to permit of genuine self-government and the assumption of personal…

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Real power does not consist in the ability to inflict capital punishment upon the subjects, but in the will and the ability…

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Steam becomes a mighty power only when it allows itself to be imprisoned in a strong little reservoir, produces tremendous motion and…

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Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. That strength may be physical or of the heart or, if…

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The press is called the Fourth Estate. It is definitely a power, but, to misuse that power is criminal.

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“The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.”

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We must always seek to ally ourselves with that part of the enemy that knows what is right.

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No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world.

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If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior

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If my nonviolence is to be contagious and infectious, I must acquire greater control over my thoughts.

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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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