Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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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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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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India's freedom must revolutionize the world's outlook upon Peace and War.

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Birth-control through self-restraint is the most desirable, sensible and totally harmless method.

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In the Gita continuous concentration on God is the king of sacrifices.

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It is my unmistakable belief that not a blade of grass moves but by the divine will.

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The highest religion has been defined by a negative word: ahimsa.

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God has enabled man to distinguish between his sister, his mother, his daughter and his wife.

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If we had attained the full vision of Truth, we would no longer be seekers, but become one with God, for Truth is God.

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For me, Rama and Rahim are one and the same deity. I acknowledge no other God but the one God of truth and righteousness.

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My errors have been errors of calculation and judging men, not in appreciating the true nature of truth and ahimsa or in their application.

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Before we can aspire to guide the destinies of India, we shall have to adopt the habit of fearlessness.

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My nationalism is as broad as my swadeshi, I want India's rise so that the whole world may benefit.

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A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind.

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Why should men arrogate to themselves the right to regulate female purity?

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The one condition for fighting for peace and liberty is to acquire self-restraint.

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I hold it a blasphemy to say that the Creator resides in a temple from which a particular class of His devotees sharing faith in it are excluded.

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Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been.

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One who hooks his fortune to ahimsa, the law of love, daily lessens the circle of destruction and to that extent promotes life and love.

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No matter what the cause was and wherever it was, Indian governments must never requisition the services of British soldiers to deal with civil disturbances.

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In battling against untouchability, and in dedicating myself to that battle, I have no less an ambition than to see a full regeneration of humanity.

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An India free from exploitation from within and without must prosper with astonishing rapidity.

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In the East, as in the West, newspapers are fast becoming people's Bible, Koran, Zend-Avesta and Gita all rolled into one.

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Was it that you wanted to pull my leg by transporting me to the frozen Himalayan heights of 'mahatmaship' and claiming for yourself absolution from having to follow my precepts?

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Whatever may be the pros and cons of going to the public theatre, it is a patent fact that it has undermined the morals and ruined the character of many a youth in his country.

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It was manly and dignified to rely upon God for the dissolution of all troubles. He was the only infallible help, guide and friend.

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Ahimsa is nothing if not a well-balanced, exquisite consideration for one's neighbour, and an idle man is wanting in that elementary consideration.

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Who can deny that much that passes for science and art today destroys the soul instead of uplifting it and instead of evoking the best in us, panders to our basest passions?

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The mundane use of the Gayatri, its repetition for healing the sick, illustrates the meaning we have given to prayer.

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No man has ever been able to describe God fully. The same holds true of ahimsa.

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