Mahatma Gandhi Two Quotations

Power is of two kinds: one is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love.

My whole soul rebels against the idea that Hinduism and Islam represent two antagonistic cultures and doctrines.

There are two days in the year that we can not do anything, yesterday and tomorrow

Facts we would always place before our readers, whether they are palatable or not, and it is by placing them constantly before the public in their nakedness that the misunderstanding between the two communities in South Africa can be removed.

No two leaves were alike, and yet there is no antagonism between them or between the branches on which they grow.

A satyagrahi may not ride two horses, truth and untruth, at the same time, nor, to change the metaphor, trim his sail to catch every breeze as you do in the name of communism.

A satyagrahi is sometimes bound to use language which is capable of two meanings, provided both the meanings are obvious and necessary and there is no intention to deceive anyone.

All religions teach that two opposite forces act upon us and the human endeavour consists in a series of eternal rejections and acceptances.

Between the two, the nationalist and the imperialist, there is no meeting ground.

No two men are absolutely alike, not even twins, yet there is much that is indispensably common to all mankind.

What the two hands of the labourer can achieve, the capitalist will never get with all his gold and silver.

We Indians are one as no two Englishmen are.

Ahimsa and Truth are my two lungs. I cannot live without them.

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.

Even a believer in nonviolence has to say between two combatants which is less bad or whose cause is just.

I have been repeating over and over again that he who cannot protect himself or his nearest and dearest or their honour by non-violently facing death may and ought to do so by violently dealing with the oppressor. He who can do neither of the two is a burden. He has no business to be the head of a family. He must either hide himself, or must rest content to live for ever in helplessness and be prepared to crawl like a worm at the bidding of a bully.

There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence.

It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words. God did not bear the cross only two thousand years ago. He bears it today, and he dies and is resurrected from day to day. It would be a poor comfort to the world if it had to depend on a historical God who died two thousand years ago. Do not, then, preach the God of history, but show him as he lives today through you.

Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation and a wicked deed dis-approbation, the doer of the deed, whether good or wicked always deserves respect or pity as the case may be. Hate the sin and not the sinner is a precept which though easy enough to understand is rarely practised, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.

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.

Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two. What is obtained by love is retained for all time. What is obtained by hatred proves a burden in reality for it increases hatred." - by Mohandas K. Gandhi -

When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war.

I have so much to accomplish today that I must meditate for two hours instead of one.