Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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True religion being the greatest thing in life and in the world, has been exploited the most.

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God resides in every human form, indeed in every particle of His creations, in everything that is on his earth.

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Every calamity should lead to a thorough cleansing of individual as well as social life.

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Man has regarded woman as his tool. She has learnt to be his tool and in the end found it is easy and pleasurable to be such, because when one drags another in his fall, the descent is easy.

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Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience.

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The commerce between India and Africa will be of ideas and services, not of the manufactured goods against raw materials after the fashion of the Western exploiters.

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God has given us only a limited sphere of action and a limited vision.

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Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect.

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Swaraj means even under dominion status a capacity to declare independence at will.

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There can be no friendship between cowards, or cowards and brave men.

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Real education has to draw out the best from the boys and girls to be educated.

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If the Commander-in-Chief will look beyond the defence forces, he will discover that the real India is not military but peace-loving.

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A man of God never strives after untruth and therefore he can never lose hope.

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Work for Swaraj fails to appeal to us because we have no music in us.

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All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles.

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A spirit is not necessarily purer, because it is disembodied.

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Government of the people by the people and for the people cannot be conducted at the bidding of one man, however great he may be.

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The world easily finds an honourable place for the magician who produces new and dazzling things.

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If a man voluntarily allows himself to be crushed, he yields the oil of moral energy which sustains the world.

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Where death without resistance or death after resistance is the only way, neither party should think of resorting to law-courts or help from the government.

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To one who reads the spirit of the Gita, it teaches the secret of nonviolence, the secret of realizing self through the physical body.

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Once Jesus had blazed the trail, his twelve disciples could carry on his mission without his presence.

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I shall despair when I despair of myself, of God and humanity.

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For every minute that I spin, there is in me the consciousness that I am adding to the nation's wealth.

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When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war.

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Nothing can be more hurtful to an honourable man than that he should be accused of bad faith.

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The bomb-throwers have discredited the cause of freedom, in whose name they threw the bombs.

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It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to speak impromptu. I hesitated whenever I had to face strange audiences and avoided making a speech whenever I could. Even today I do not think I could or would even be inclined to keep a meeting of friends engaged in idle talk.

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I suggest that we are thieves in a way. If I take anything that I do not need for my own immediate use, and keep it, I thieve it from somebody else.... Nature produces enough for our wants from day to day, and if only every-body took enough for himself and nothing more, there would be no pauperism in this world, there would be no man dying of starvation in this world. But so long as we have got this inequality, so long we are thieving.

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Truth is God, and Truth overrides all our plans. The whole Truth is only embodied within the heart of Great Power-Truth.

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