Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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Political power means the capacity to regulate national life through national representatives.

Mahatma Gandhi
The alphabet of ahimsa is best learnt in domestic school and I can say from experience that if we secure success there, we are sure to do so everywhere else.

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The method of satyagraha requires that the satyagrahi should never lose hope, so long as there is the slightest ground left for it.

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The mind may wander, but let not the senses wander with it. If the senses wander where the mind takes them, one is done for.

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Hinduism with its message of ahimsa is to me the most glorious religion in the world.

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We have to make truth and non-violence not matters for mere individual practice but for practice by groups and communities and nations. That at any rate is my dream. I shall live and die in trying to realize it. My faith helps me to discover new truths every day.

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My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.

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To gain India's freedom, the capacity for suffering must go hand in hand with the capacity for ceaseless labour.

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Where my own mission is concerned, my thought is active, and I try to wish everyone well in spite of doubts and mistrust.

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True paurusha, true bravery, consists in driving out the brute in us.

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My own veneration for other faiths is the same as that for my own faith; therefore no thought of conversion is possible

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In order to get meat, we have to kill. And we are certainly not entitled to any other milk except the mother's milk in our infancy.

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My optimism rests on my belief in the infinite possibilities of the individual to develop nonviolence.... In a gentle way you can shake the world.

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I desire no honour if I have to conceal my religious beliefs in order to have it.

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Every man has an equal right to the necessaries of life even as birds and beasts have.

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My mother would tell me that the shortest cut to purification after the unholy touch was to cancel the touch by touching any Mussalman passing by.

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What is life worth without trials and tribulations which are the salt of life.

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My love for nonviolence is superior to every other thing, mundane or super mundane.

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It was our love of foreign cloth that ousted the wheel from its position of dignity.

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A perfect mind comes from a perfect heart, not the heart known by a doctor's stethoscope but the heart which is the seat of God.

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The Charkha supplemented the agriculture of the villagers and gave it dignity.

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Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society.

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Independence of my conception means nothing less than the realization of the "Kingdom of God" within you and on this earth.

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It is my great misfortune that I have to measure your love by the money gifts you give for Daridranarayana.

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Hinduism has absorbed the best of all the faiths of the world and in that sense Hinduism is not an exclusive religion.

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My respectful study of other religions has not abated my reverence for or my faith in the Hindu scriptures.

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I know of no religion or sect that has done or is doing without a house of God, variously described as a temple, a mosque, a church, a synagogue or agiary.

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Hatred is not essential for nationalism. Race hatred will kill the real national spirit.

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A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution.

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It is for us to make the effort. The result is always in God's hands.

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