Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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The elephant needs a thousand times more food than the ant but that is not an indication of inequality.

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We become Godlike to the extent we realize nonviolence, but we can never become wholly God.

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The primary object of non-co-operation is nowhere stated to be paralysis of the Government. The primary object is self-purification.

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I have found that life persists in the midst of destruction and, therefore, there must be a higher law than that of destruction. Only under that law would a well-ordered society be intelligible and life worth living.

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No one has the capacity to judge God. We are drops in that limitless ocean of mercy.

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We must learn to be self-reliant and independent of schools, courts, protection and patronage of a Government we seek to end, if it will not mend.

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If people knew the working of the law of truth and nonviolence, then they would themselves regulate the matter of its shortage.

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I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death rather than kill him.

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A successful search for truth means complete deliverance from the dual throng, such as of love and hate, happiness and misery.

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It is a tragedy of the first magnitude that millions of people have ceased to use their hands as hands. Nature has bestowed upon us this great gift which is our hands. If the craze for machinery method continues, it is highly likely that a time will come when we shall be so incapacitated and weak that we shall begin to curse ourselves for having forgotten the use of the living machines given to us by God.

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Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.

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I recognise no God except the God that is to be found in the hearts of the dumb millions.

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I believe in what Max Muller said years ago, namely, that truth needed to be repeated as long as there were men who disbelieved it.

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The dry knowledge of the three R's is not even now, it can never be, a permanent part of the villagers' life.

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Men of stainless character and self purification will easily inspire confidence and automatically purify the atmosphere around them.

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Cow-protection can only be secured by cultivating universal friendliness, i.e. ahimsa.

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The most distinctive and largest contribution of Hinduism to India's culture is the doctrine of ahimsa.

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A religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb.

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Of all the superstitions that affect India, none is so great as that a knowledge of the English language is necessary for imbibing ideas of liberty and developing accuracy to thought.

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Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society.

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The Swaraj of my dream recognizes no race or religious distinctions.

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My nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving the dear ones unprotected.

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Even swadeshi, like any other good thing, can be ridden to death if it is made a fetish.

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God is omnipresent; even a pebble in the Narmada can represent Him and serve as an object of worship.

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The Charkha is the symbol of sacrifice, and sacrifice is essential for the establishment of the image of the deity.

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The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.

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If we are true servants of the masses, we would take pride in spinning for their sake.

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For me, humanitarian service, or rather service of all that lives, is religion. And I draw no distinction between such religion and politics.

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The aim of university education should be to turn out true servants of the people who will live and die for the country's freedom.

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The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies.

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