Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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My fast is, among other things, meant to qualify me for achieving that equal and selfless love.

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The Britisher is the top dog and the Indian the underdog in his own country.

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The principle of ahimsa is hurt by every evil thought, by undue haste, by lying, by hatred, by wishing ill to anybody.

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I have in my life never been guilty of saying things I did not mean - my nature is to go straight to the heart and if often I fail in doing so for the time being, I know that Truth ultimately makes itself heard and felt, as it has often done in my experience.

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I am a poor mendicant. My earthly possessions consist of six spinning wheels, prison dishes, a can of goat's milk, six homespun loincloths and towels and my reputation, which cannot be worth much.

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Hinduism does not rest on the authority of one book or one prophet, nor does it posses a common creed like the Kalma.

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Rights of true citizenship accrue only to those who serve the State to which they belong.

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A country whose culture is based on nonviolence will find it necessary to have every home as much self-contained as possible.

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Indeed, a civil resister offers resistance only when peace becomes impossible.

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A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.

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For thousands to do to death a few hundreds is no bravery. It is worse than cowardice. It is unworthy of nationalism, of any religion.

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If India becomes the slave of the machine, then, I say, heaven save the world.

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The greatness of a person lies in his heart, not in his head; that is intellect.

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If the poet spun for half an hour daily, his poetry would gain in richness.

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A literal interpretation of the Gita lands one in a sea of contradictions.

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I have pinned my faith to the spinning wheel. On it, I believe, the salvation of this country depends.

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Ahimsa and Truth are so intertwined that it is practically impossible to disentangle and separate them.

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God Himself has reserved no right of revision of His own laws nor is there any need for Him for any such revision.

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Why worry one's head over a thing that is inevitable? Why die before one's death?

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If we weep for all the deaths in our country, the tears in our eyes would never dry.

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I refuse to buy from anybody anything however nice or beautiful if it interferes with my growth or injures those whom Nature has made my first care.

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Unless our hands go hand in hand with our heads, we will be able to do nothing whatsoever.

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The sanyasa of the Gita will not tolerate complete cessation of activity.

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A man cannot serve God and Mammon, nor be "temperate and furious" at the same time.

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My whole soul rebels against the idea that Hinduism and Islam represent two antagonistic cultures and doctrines.

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The builders of the British Indian Empire have patiently built its four pillars-the European interests, the army, the Indian princes and the communal divisions.

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You are not going to know the meaning of God or prayer unless you reduce yourself to a cipher.

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Like the watch, the heart needs the winding of purity, or the Dweller ceases to speak.

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Mass illiteracy is India's sin and shame and must be liquidated.

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If Britain were honest, which I dispute, she would then embrace all nations on terms of equality.

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