Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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I do not believe that the spiritual law works on a field of its own. On the contrary, it expresses itself only through the ordinary activities of life. It thus affects the economic, the social and the political fields.

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Swadeshi is the only doctrine consistent with the law of humanity and love.

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Means to be means must always be within our reach, and so ahimsa is our supreme duty.

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I believe that religious education must be the sole concern of religious associations.

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Violence is bound sooner or later to exhaust itself but peace cannot issue out of such exhaustion.

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Faith is put to the test when the situation is most difficult.

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I regard Duryodhana and his party as the baser impulses in man, and Arjuna and his party as the higher impulses.

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There are chords in every human heart. If we only knew how to strike the right chord, we would bring out the music.

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Now the man on duty used to be changed from time to time. Once one of these men, without giving me the slightest warning, without even asking me to leave the footpath, pushed and kicked me into the street. I was dismayed. Before I could question him as to his behaviour, Mr Coates, who happened to be passing the spot on horseback, hailed me and said:

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There is as much need for a change of heart among the Hindus and Mussalmans as there is among the British, before a proper settlement is arrived at.

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For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of Englishmen.

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Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realize what a tremendous advantage she has over man. As Tolstoy used to say, they are laboring under the hypnotic influence of man. If they would realize the strength of non-violence they would not consent to be called the weaker sex.

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One has to speak out and stand up for one's convictions. Inaction at a time of conflagration is inexcusable.

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A courageous man prefers death to the surrender of self-respect.

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A man of truth must ever be confident, if he has also equal need to be diffident.

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Renunciation made for the sake of service is an ineffable joy of which none can deprive anyone, because that nectar springs from within and sustains life.

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The whole world is like the human body with its various members. Pain in one member is felt in the whole body.

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He who gives up action falls. He who gives up the reward rises. But renunciation of fruit in no way means indifference to the result.

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The restoration of spinning to its central place in India's peaceful campaign for deliverance from the imperial yoke gives her women a special status.

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Armed conspiracies against something satanic is like matching Satans against Satan.

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In matters concerning religion, I consider myself not a child but an adult with 35 years of experience.

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My life has been full of external tragedies and if they have not left any visible effect on me, I owe it to the teaching of the Bhagavadgita.

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The message of Jesus has proved ineffective because the environment was unready to receive it.

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My ahimsa is my own. I am not able to accept in its entirety the doctrine of non-killing of animals.

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If Britain wins wholly, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and perhaps even Bolshevik Russia will disappear.

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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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