Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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

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There is no distrust of men and mankind in me. They will answer before God, so why should I worry?

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

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History is replete with instances of men, who, by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.

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If untouchability is an integral part of Hinduism, the latter is a spent bullet.

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The Law is God. Anything attributed to Him is not a mere attribute. He is Truth, Love, Law and a million things that human ingenuity can name.

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Real non-co-operation is non-co-operation with evil and not with the evil-doer.

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Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.

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

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

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

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

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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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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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It is degrading both for man and woman that woman should be called upon or induced to forsake the hearth and shoulder the rifle for the protection of that hearth.

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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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Faith is like the Himalaya mountains which cannot possibly change.

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