Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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Human nature will find itself only when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or brutal.

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We find the general work of mankind is being carried on from day to day by the mass of people acting in harmony as if by instinct. If they were instinctively violent, the world would end in no time.

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Faith is like the Himalaya mountains which cannot possibly change.

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The real implication of equal distribution is that each man shall have the wherewithal to supply all his natural needs and no more.

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Could there be a greater proof of our cowardice than fighting amongst ourselves?

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As a rule, the mind, residing in a body that has become weakened by pampering, is also weak, and where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.

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A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer.

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A life without vows is like a ship without an anchor or like an edifice that is built on sand instead of a solid rock.

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The right to err, which means the freedom to try experiments, is the universal condition of all progress.

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All the other industries will receive warmth and sustenance from khadi industry.

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Non-co-operation enables us to show that in everything that matters we can be independent of the Government.

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If Swaraj is to be had by peaceful methods, it will only be attained by attention to every little detail of national life.

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Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.

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Mother cow is in many ways better than the mother who gave us birth.

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The greatest help you can give me is to banish fear from your hearts.

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It is poor faith that needs fair weather for standing firm. That alone is true faith that stands the foulest weather.

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It is a crime and a sin to regard a person as untouchable because he is born in a particular community.

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No Indian who aspires to follow the way of true religion can afford to remain aloof from politics.

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Man the law-giver will have to pay a dreadful penalty for the degradation he has imposed upon the so called weaker sex.

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Khadi will cease to have any value in my eyes if it does not usefully employ the millions.

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No sophistry, no jugglery in figures can explain away the evidence that the skeletons in many villages present to the naked eye.

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A nation that is capable of limitless sacrifice is capable of rising to limitless heights. The purer the sacrifice the quicker the progress.

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Mankind is one, seeing that all are equally subject to the moral law. All men are equal in God's eyes.

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In the case of the Indian villager, an age-old culture is hidden under entrustment of crudeness.

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A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed.

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To reject the necessity of temples is to reject the necessity of God, religion and earthly existence.

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The Enlightened one has told you in never-to-be-forgotten words that this little span of life is but a passing shadow, a fleeting thing.

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As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books.

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Faith becomes lame, when it ventures into matters pertaining to reason!

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Truth, which is permanent, eludes the historian of events. Truth transcends history.

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