Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Power
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There is an indefinable mysterious Power that pervades everything.
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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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Power is of two kinds: one is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love.
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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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Real power does not consist in the ability to inflict capital punishment upon the subjects, but in the will and the ability to protect the subjects against the world.
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There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed.
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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.
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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. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
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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 use of them.
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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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How heavy is the toll of sins and wrong that wealth, power and prestige exact from man.
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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 carries huge weights by permitting itself a tiny and measured outlet.
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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 responsibilities, federated into larger units in such a way that the temptation to abuse great power should not arise.
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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, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.
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Mahatma Gandhi
- Born: October 2, 1869
- Died: January 30, 1948
- Occupation: Civil rights leader
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