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Epigrams From Gandhiji

(Gandhi Quotes on various subjects)


Compiled by: S.R. Tikekar

Published by: Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India, [1971]

Mahatma Gandhi’s quotations on subjects like truth, nonviolence, Satyagraha, etc., are known universally. But what were his views on copyright? Or what had he to say about a rose or a right angle? It will be amusing and enlightening to know this.

This is a collection of pithy sayings of Mahatma Gandhi on various subjects and important issues for rapid reference. The compiler has selected a few thousand epigrams from Gandhiji’s voluminous writings. The epigrams have been arranged alphabetically and the source of each epigram is given below it.


| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | R | S | T | U | V | W | Y |


KEY TO SOURCES | GLOSSARY - SOURCES



A

Abstinence | Abuse | Action | Administration | Advaita | Affliction | Africa | Aggressor | Agriculture | Ahimsa | America | Anekantvada | Anger | Angle | Appeasement | Armaments | Army | Art | Asceticism | Astrology | Atheist | Atom Bomb | Autocracy

B

Banker | Basic Education | Beast | Beauty | Bhagwad Gita (Gita) | Birth | Birth Control | Blame | Bone | Boycott | Brahmins-Brahminism | Brave- Bravery | Brother-Brotherhood | Brute-Brute Force | Buddha- Buddhism

C

Calamity | Capital-Capitalism | Castles in Air | Cattle | Celibacy | Changeless | Character | Charkha (Spinning Wheel) | Chastity| Children | Christ-Christianity | Citizenship | Civil Disobedience | Civilization | Civil-Resistance | Cleanliness | Coercion | Communism-Bolshevism | Compromise | Compulsion | Concentration | Conduct | Confession | Conscience | Constructive Programme | Contentment | Control | Conversion | Cooperation | Copyright | Correction | Corruption | Cottage Industry | Courage | Cow | Coward-Cowardice | Creator | Crime | Criticism | Cruel| Culture

D

Daridranarayana | Death | Debt | Deception | Defeat | Defence | Democracy | Dependence| Desire | Despair | Destiny | Devotee-Devotion (Bhakti) | Diagnosis | Dignity | Diplomacy | Disarmament | Discipline | Disease | Dishonesty | Distinction | Distrust | Divine Rights | Divinity | Doctor | Dominion Status | Dream| Drink | Duty

E

Earning | Earth | Earthquake | Eating | Economics | Education | Effort | Ego | Employment | Enemy | Englishmen-English Language | Equality | Ethics | Euclid | Europe | Evil | Evolution | Experiment | Exploitation

F

Faith | Fast-Fasting | Fear-Fearless | Fight | Fire | Flag | Flattery | Force | Foreign-Cloth | Forgiveness | Freedom | Friends-Friendship

G

Gandhism | Gentleness | Germany | Gifts | God| Gold | Golden Rule| Good-Goodness | Goondas | Government of India | Grave| Gravitation | Greatness

H

Handicraft | Handsome | Hanuman | Happiness | Harijan | Haste | Hate-Hatred | Health| Helplessness | Himalayas | Hindi | Hindu-Hinduism | History | Hitler | Honesty | Hope | Hostility | Human Dignity | Human Family | Humanity | Human Nature | Humility | Hunger | Hunger-Strike | Hypocrisy

I

Ideal | Idleness | Idol-Idolatry | Ignorance | Illiteracy | Imitation | Immoral | Immortal | Impatience | Imperialists-Imperialism | Imposition | Impossible | Impression | Independence | India-Indians | Indiscipline | Individualism | Inequality | Inheritance | Injustice | Inner Voice | Innocent | Interdependence | Internationalism | Intolerance | Iron | Islam

J

Japan | Jealousy | Journalism | Joy | Justice

K

Karma Yoga | Khadi-Khaddar | Kisan | Knowledge

L

Labour | Language | Law | Leaders | Learning | Legislatures | Liberation | Liberty | Life | Lions | Literacy | Literature | Lokmanya Tilak | Love

M

Machine-Machinery | Mahabharata | Mahatma | Majority | Man-Mankind | Marriage | Masses | Military-Militarization | Millions | Mind | Minority | Misdeeds | Missionary | Mistrust | Mobs-Mobocracy | Moral Force-Morality | Mortification | Mother-Motherhood | Mother-Tongue | Murder | Museums | Music

N

Narcotics | Nation-National-Nationalism | Nature | Nature Care | Non-Cooperation | Nonviolence

O

Obedience | Ocean | Oppression | Optimist | Organisation | Orthodox

P

Parliament | Passion | Passive Resistance | Patience | Patient | Patriotism | Peace | People | Perfect-Perfection | Picketing | Pledge | Poetry | Police | Politics-Political | Pomp | Poor- Poverty | Possible | Power | Prayer | Preaching | Prison | Progress | Prohibition | Promise | Propaganda | Prophets | Public Opinion | Punishment | Pure-Purity-Purification

R

Rama-Ramayana-Ram Raj | Rationalism | Reading | Realization | Reason | Rebellion | Reform- Reformer | Regularity | Religion| Renunciation | Repose | Repression | Research | Resolution | Responsibility | Restraint | Retaliation | Retirement | Revolutionary | Reward | Rich | Ridicule | Right | Right Angle | Risk | Rome | Rose

S

Sacrifice | Sad | Saint | Salt | Salvation | Sanitation | Sanskrit | Satan | Satyagraha-Satyagrahi | Scavenger | Schools | Science | Scriptures | Self | Self-Confidence | Self-Control | Self-Defense | Self-Determination | Self-Government | Self-immolation | Self-indulgence | Selflessness | Self-Pity | Self-Realization | Self-Reliant | Self-Respect | Self-Restraint | Self- Righteousness | Self-Rule | Self-Sacrifice | Self- Suffering | Self-Supporting | Self-Surrender | Service | Silence | Simplicity | Slave-Slavery | Small Things | Smoking | Socialism | Society | Soldier | Sorrow | Soul-Soul-Force | Spiritual-Spiritualism | Starvation | State | Strikes | Strong-Strength | Struggle | Student | Success | Suffering | Superiority | Superman | Superstition | Supreme Judge | Swadeshi | Swaraj | Sword

T

Taboo | Taxation | Teacher | Temples | Temptation | Terrorism | Thinking | Thoughts | Time | Tolerance-Toleration | Tolstoy | Tools | Tragedy | Treachery | Trust | Truth

U

Undertaking | Unity | Universal | University | Untouchability | Untruth | Utility

V

Vaccination | Varnasharam Dharma | Vedas | Vegetarianism | Vice | Victory | Villages | Violence-Himsa | Virtue | Vow

W

War | Waste | Wealth | Welfare | Widow-Widowhood | Woman | Work | World | Worship | Wrong

Y

Yajna | Youth