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Quotes from To Every Briton — Mahatma Gandhi

1869–1948 India

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May God give power to every word of mine. In his name I began to write this, and in His name I close it.

To Every Briton (1940)

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

To Every Briton (1940)

I know of no single case in which it has failed.

To Every Briton (1940)

It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners.

To Every Briton (1940)

This is no appeal made by a man who does not know his business. I have been practising with scientific precision non-violence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years.

To Every Briton (1940)

I want you to fight Nazism without arms, or, if I am to retain the military terminology, with non-violent arms.

To Every Briton (1940)

I claim no perfection for my self. But I do claim to be a passionate seeker after Truth, which is but another name for God.

To Every Briton (1940)

No cause, however just, can warrant the indiscriminate slaughter that is going on minute by minute. I suggest that a cause that demands the inhumanities that are being perpetrated today cannot be called just.

To Every Briton (1940)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mahatma Gandhi (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.