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States Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
- The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy.
- The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.
- Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
- Perfection is the exclusive attribute of God, and it is indescribable, untranslatable. I do believe that it is possible for human beings to become perfect,…
- There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, i.e. the voice of conscience even though such obedience…
- As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.
- Freedom and slavery are mental states.
- My doctrine means that I must identify myself with life, with everything that lives, that I must share the majesty of life in the presence…
- There can be no rule of God in the present state of iniquitous inequalities in which a few roll in riches and the masses do…
- A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty.
- We are the makers of our own state and...individuals who realize the fact need not, ought not, to wait for collective action.
- Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves.
- Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in…
- Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
- I look upon an increase in the power of the State with the greatest fear because, although while apparently doing good by minimizing exploitation, it…
- Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state.
- Truth should be the very breath of our life. When once this state in the pilgrim's progress is reached, all other rules of correct living…
- If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my…
- It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state…
- Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.
- Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.
- Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as little reason to deplore the…
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