Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.

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The meaning of prayer is that I want to evoke that Divinity within me.

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God has been described by all the scriptures of the world as protector and saviour of the sinner.

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Truth is my religion and ahimsa is the only way of its realization.

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The rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society.

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We shall dig our own grave if we do not purge ourselves of this curse of untouchability.

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Never own defeat in a sacred cause and make up your minds henceforth that you will be pure and that you will find a response from God.

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The cause is everything. Those even who are dearest to us must be shunted for the sake of the cause.

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God's laws are eternal and unalterable and not separable from God Himself.

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When a man vowed to nonviolence as the law governing human beings dares to refer to war, he can only do it so as to strain every nerve to avoid it.

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The hater hates not for the sake of hatred but because he wants to drive away from his country the hated being or beings.

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Legal imposition avoids the necessity of honour or good faith.

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Man must choose either of the two courses, the upward or the downward; but as he has the brute in him, he will more easily choose the downward course than the upward, especially when the downward course is presented to him in a beautiful garb. Man easily capitulates when sin is presented in the garb of virtue.

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I have described Swaraj as Ramarajya and Ramarajya is an impossibility unless we have thousands of Sitas.

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The press is called the Fourth Estate. It is definitely a power, but, to misuse that power is criminal.

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Let me say that God will send me the plan when He gives the word as He has done before now.

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The Law of Love, call it attraction, affinity, cohesion if you like, governs the world.

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My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control.

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Execution of the constructive programme in its entirety means more than Swaraj. It means Ram Raj, Khudai Sultanat or the Divine Kingdom.

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Ahimsa is the height of Kshatriya dharma as it represents the climax of fearlessness.

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The Muslim is as much an Indian as I am and of the same blood.

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The real property that a parent can transmit to all equally is his or her character and educational facilities.

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A seeker of truth will never begin by discounting his opponent's statement as unworthy of trust.

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We are aware that the business of Swaraj will thrive only if the boycott of foreign cloth is successful.

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Love can never express itself by imposing sufferings on others. It can only express itself by self-suffering, by self-purification.

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Freedom of the press is a precious privilege that no country can forego.

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The greatest lessons in life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from the grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children.

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Dharma is one and one only. Ahimsa means moksha, and moksha is the realization of Truth.

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We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

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Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for nonviolence.

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