Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Virtue
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A nation that is unfit to fight cannot, from experience, prove the virtue of not fighting.
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Rama Nama should come from the heart. In that event, Rama Nama could become an effective remedy against all ailments. A man who believes in Rama Nama would not make a fetish of the body but would regard it as a means of serving God. And for making it into a fit instrument for that purpose, Rama Nama is the sovereign means. To install Rama Nama in the heart requires infinite patience. It might even take ages. But the effort is worthwhile. Rama Nama cannot come from the heart unless one has cultivated the virtues of truth, honesty and purity within and without.
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Truth and non-violence are not cloistered virtues but applicable as much in the forum and the legislatures as in the market place.
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Nationalism, like virtue, has its own reward.
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Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.
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In a self-respecting India, is not every woman's virtue as much every man's concern as his own sister's?
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Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a free agent, and knows no distinction between virtue and vice, good and evil. Man, being a free agent, knows these distinctions, and when he follows his higher nature, shows himself far superior to the brute, but when he follows his baser nature can show himself lower than the brute.
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That which is inherent in man is his virtue.
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Non-violence and cowardice are contradictory terms. Non-violence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice. Non-violence springs from love, cowardice from hate. Non-violence always suffers, cowardice would always inflict suffering. Perfect non-violence is the highest bravery. Non-violent conduct is never demoralising; cowardice always is.
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Nonviolence is the virtue of the manly. The coward is innocent of it.
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Untouchability of foreign cloth is as much a virtue with all of us as untouchability of the suppressed classes must be a sin with every devout Hindu.
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Forgiveness is the virtue of the brave.
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Whilst I may not actually help anyone to retaliate, I must not let a coward seek shelter behind nonviolence so-called. Not knowing the stuff of which nonviolence is made, many have honestly believed that running away from danger every time was a virtue compared to offering resistance, especially when it was fraught with danger to one's life. As a teacher of nonviolence I must, so far as it is possible for me, guard against such an unmanly belief.
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All the great religions of the world inculcate equality and brotherhood of mankind and the virtue of toleration.
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Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice - nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate.
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Virtue lies in being absorbed in one's prayers in the presence of din and noise.
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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.
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Nonviolence is not a cloistered virtue, confined only to the rishi and the cave-dweller.
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One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.
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Man must choose either of the two courses, the upward or the downward; but as he has the brute in him, he will more easily choose the downward course than the upward, especially when the downward course is presented to him in a beautiful garb. Man easily capitulates when sin is presented in the garb of virtue.
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The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.
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Mahatma Gandhi
- Born: October 2, 1869
- Died: January 30, 1948
- Occupation: Civil rights leader
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