Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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God always saves the world from the consequences of unintended errors of men who live in fear of Him.

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God is not in Kaaba or in Kashi. He is within everyone of us.

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The cause of the spinning wheel is too great and too good to have to rest on mere hero-worship.

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When you want to find Truth as God, the only inevitable means is love, that is nonviolence.

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All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.

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All the dry ethics of the world turn to dust because apart from God they are lifeless.

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It is a travesty of true religion to consider one's own religion as superior and other's as inferior.

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In the characteristics of the perfected man of the Gita, I do not see any to correspond to physical warfare.

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This feeling of helplessness in us has arisen from our deliberate dismissal of God from our common affairs.

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True ahimsa should mean a complete freedom from ill-will and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all.

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The word 'defeat' is not to be found in my dictionary, and everyone who is selected as a recruit in my army may be certain that there is no defeat for a satyagrahi.

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History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance.

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Though violence is not lawful, when it is offered in self-defense or for the defense of the defenseless, it is an act of bravery far better than cowardly submission. The latter befits neither man nor woman. Under violence, there are many stages and varieties of bravery. Every man must judge this for himself. No other person can or has the right.

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Love is needed to strengthen the weak; love becomes tyrannical when it exacts obedience from an unbeliever.

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Love is a rare herb that makes a friend even of a sworn enemy and this herb grows out of nonviolence.

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Prayer from the heart can achieve what nothing else can in the world.

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God will not be God, if He allowed Himself to be the object of proof by His creatures.

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I shall content myself with merely declaring my firm conviction that, for the seeker who would live in fear of God and who would see Him face to face, restraint in diet both as to quantity and quality is as essential as restraint in thought and speech.

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Great causes cannot be served by intellectual equipment alone, they call for spiritual effort of soul-force.

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By Ram Raj I do not mean Hindu Raj. I mean by Ram Raj, Divine Raj, the Kingdom of God.

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No stone should be left unturned to bring home to the family members that untouchability is a sin and a blot on Hinduism.

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Men like me feel that untouchability is no integral part of Hinduism, it is an excrescence.

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Tolstoy's so-called inconsistencies were a sign of his development and his passionate regard for truth.

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The avowed policy of non-co-operation has been not to make political use of the disputes between labour and capital.

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Man should earnestly desire the well - being of all God's creations and pray that we may have the strength to do so.

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A poet is one who can call forth the good latent in the human beast.

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Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law.

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The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton.

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My modesty has prevented me from declaring from the house top that the message of non-co-operation, nonviolence and swadeshi is a message to the world.

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The seeker is at liberty to extract from this treasure any meaning he likes, so as to enable him to enforce in his life the central teaching.

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