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Gandhi Themes Quotes - Coggle Diagram
Gandhi Themes Quotes
Religion and Morality
'the tendency of Indian civilisation is to elevate the moral being, that of Western civilisation is to propagate immorality. The latter is godless, the former is based on a belief in God'
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'we should se a limit to our worldly ambition, and our religious ambition should be illimitable'
'God set a limit to a man's locomotive ambition in the construction of his body. Man immediately proceeded to discover means of overriding the body
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Government
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'there is no room for machines that would displace human labour and would concentrate power in a few hands'
'true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the centre. It has to be worked from below by people of every village'
'a government cannot succeed in becoming entirely non-violent because it represents all the people. I do not today conceive of such a golden age. But I do believe in the possibility of a predominantly non-violent society'- Harijan
'democracy is an impossible thing until power is shared by all... It is possible for you to make their lives or mar their lives'- YI
'democracy msut in essence mean the art and science of mobilizing the entire physical, economic and spiritual resources of all the various sections of people in the service of a common good of all'- Harijan
non-violence
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'when I refuse to do a thing that is repugnant to my conscience, I use soul-force', natural
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Tolstoy: 'I thin the question you treat in it- the passive resistance- is a question of the greatest importance not only for India but for the whole humanity'
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Self-Rule
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Wybergh: 'you are practically preaching 'liberation' in the religious and metaphysical sense as the immediate aim of all humanity'
Nehru (interview): 'really the problem of creating a fully integrated human being- that is, with what might be called the spiritual and ethical counterpart of the purely material machinery of planning and development being brought into the making of man'*