QUOTATIONS FROM GANDHI-7

1. The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
2. "Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be inseparable part of our very being."
3. There is no god higher than truth.
4. "Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory."
5. Patience means self-suffering.
6. There are limits to self-indulgence, none to restraint."
7. "To believe what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man."
8. "Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected."
9. The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.
10. They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
11. Those who know how to think need no teachers.
12. "You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind."
13. I think it would be a good idea.
14. "A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal."
15. "When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS."
16. 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."
17. Non-violence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
18. "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."
19. "Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth."
20. Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.
21. It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
22. "In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth."
23. Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
24. It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
25. Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.

QUOTATIONS FROM GANDHI-6

1. The control of the palate is a valuable aid for the control of the mind.
2. Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. . . . It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
3. Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
4. No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
5. To put up with. . . distortions and to stick to one's guns come what may -- this is the. . . gift of leadership.
6. The good man is the friend of all living things.
7. "Ahimas is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value."
8. The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.
9. Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
10. An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
11. The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God."
12. Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
13. The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.
14. "Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock."
15. "I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world."

QUOTATIONS FROM GANDHI-5

1. Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
2. "In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place."
3. "Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared."
4. "Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into."
5. "Remember that there is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint."
6. 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."
7. The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
8. Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.
9. "I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent."
10. "Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him."
11. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
12. There is sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
13. "If you don't ask, you don't get."
14. "In a gentle way, you can shake the world."
15. Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

QUOTATIONS FROM GANDHI-4

1. I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith."
2. Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.
3. I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
4. We must be the change we wish to see in the world.
5. Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
6. I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
7. "The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within."
8. 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.
9. "A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else."
10. "In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one else could possibly reject the law of the final supremacy of brute force."
11. If Christians would really live according to the teachings of Christ, as found in the Bible, all of India would be Christian today."
12. Freedom and slavery are mental states.
13. "Almost anything you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it."
14. All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.
15. "There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever."

QUOTATIONS FROM GANDHI-3

1. The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity."
2. 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.
3. "A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve."
4. "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
5. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth and the soul requires inward restfulness to attain its full height.
6. 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."
7. "If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide."
8. "Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood."
9. Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving.
10. "A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble."
11. God comes to the hungry in the form of food.
12. Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
13. Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.
14. The 7 Deadly Sins are: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Business without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principle
15. A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

QUOTATIONS FROM GANDHI-2

1. There is more to life than increasing its speed.
2. Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.
3. "Must I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up."
4. Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking.
5. Honesty is incompatible with amassing a large fortune.
6. I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians.
7. Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
8. "Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action."
9. "I came to the conclusion long ago . . . that all religions were true, and also that all had some error in them."
10. I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a weapon of the weak. I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a weapon of the strongest. I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.
11. The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
12. Good government is no substitute for self-government.
13. "I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease."
14. "Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right."
15. "I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill."

QUOTATIONS FROM GANDHI-1

1. I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.
2. Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.
3. It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.
4. A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
5. What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells?
6. I eat to live, to serve, and also, if it so happens, to enjoy, but I do not eat for the sake of enjoyment."
7. "It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence."
8. Truth never damages a cause that is just.
9. All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.
10. An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
11. Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
12. "Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God."
13. Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
14. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
15. It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

QUOTATIONS FROM ARISTOTLE-5

1. The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
2. Memory is the scribe of the soul.
3. The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
4. "No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye."
5. "Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal."
6. The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."
7. "Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved."
8. The secret to humor is surprise.
9. Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
10. Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
11. The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom."
12. "The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper."
13. The soul never thinks without a picture.
14. Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
15. In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.
16. The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life -- knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live."
17. The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
18. The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection [Are] that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.
19. "The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain."
20. Most people would rather give than get affection.
21. This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.
22. The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.
23. "Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics."
24. "The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances."
25. Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.
26. Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well."
27. We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
28. "To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do."
29. The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
30. "Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods."
31. All men by nature desire knowledge.
32. For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.
33. All art is concerned with coming into being.
34. "If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence."
35. Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

QUOTATIONS FROM ARISTOTLE-4

1. Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself -- Power and glory, or happiness."
2. Wit is educated insolence.
3. Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the non-performance of base ones.
4. "Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly."
5. The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
6. All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
7. "Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely."
8. "First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end."
9. It is better to rise from life as from a banquet -- neither thirsty nor drunken.
10. "What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do."
11. Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids."
12. Happiness depends upon ourselves.
13. "For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve."
14. "It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions."
15. "Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age."
16. It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
17. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
18. Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
19. It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible.
20. "Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them."
21. It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom."
22. I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
23. "Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular."
24. "Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions."
25. Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.

QUOTATIONS FROM ARISTOTLE-3

1. To the query, "What is a friend?" his reply was "A single soul dwelling in two bodies.""
2. "We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace."
3. No great genius is without an admixture of madness.
4. "Even when the laws have been written down, they ought not always remain unchanged."
5. That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it.
6. Beauty is the gift of God.
7. "The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit."
8. Hope is a waking dream.
9. It is possible to fail in many ways. . . while to succeed is possible only in one way.
10. "Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them."
11. Education is the best provision for old age.
12. "What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions."
13. A man is the origin of his action.
14. "Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit."
15. Between friends there is no need of justice.
16. Educated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living are to the dead.
17. "The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness, and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival."
18. All that we do is done with an eye to something else.
19. A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
20. It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.
21. Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
22. There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.
23. Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
24. "At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst."
25. The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

QUOTATIONS FROM ARISTOTLE-2

1. He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god."
2. Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
3. "A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art."
4. No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.
5. All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
6. Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
7. Bad men are full of repentance.
8. "A good style must, first of all, be clear. It must . . . be appropriate."
9. "Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind."
10. "Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil - and if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty."
11. The family is the association established by nature for the supply of man's everyday wants.
12. It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.
13. The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
14. "People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just."
15. In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.
16. Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
17. Philosophy is the science which considers truth.
18. "Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth."
19. "Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts."
20. "Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses."
21. The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
22. The end of labor is to gain leisure.
23. How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms?
24. "Art not only imitates nature, but also completes it deficiencies."
25. Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them.

QUOTATIONS FROM ARISTOTLE-1

1. The things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
2. It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
3. One swallow does not make a spring.
4. Well begun is half done.
5. "Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit."
6. Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach."
7. Man is by nature a political animal.
8. "Now a whole is that which has a beginning, a middle, and an end."
9. "We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions."
10. "To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill."
11. What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing."
12. The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect; it is too exciting.
13. "The greatest thing is style. . . a mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances."
14. "Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all."
15. "The man who gets angry at the right things and with the right people, and in the right way and at the right time and for the right length of time, is commended."
16. The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication; for youth is sweet and they are growing.
17. The law is reason free from passion.
18. The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more . . .
19. "For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions . . ."
20. "Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish."
21. Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once."
22. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
23. "Every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite."
24. Law means good order.
25. "The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness."