Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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Nonviolence, in its dynamic condition means conscious suffering.

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I am not likely to obtain the result flowing from the worship of God by laying myself prostrate before Satan.

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This mad rush for wealth must cease and the labourer must be assured not only of a living wage but, also a daily task that is not mere drudgery.

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Virtue lies in being absorbed in one's prayers in the presence of din and noise.

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Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.

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I would far rather that Hinduism died than that untouchability lived.

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It is the duty of a non-co-operator to preach disaffection towards the existing order of things. Non-co-operators are but giving disciplined expression to a nation's outraged feelings.

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Unless nonviolence of the strong is really developed among us, there should be no thought of civil disobedience for Swaraj, whether within the states or in British India.

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Close the day with prayer so that you may have a peaceful night free from dreams and nightmares.

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The Charkha in the hands of a poor widow brings a paltry price to her, in the hands of Jawaharlal; it is an instrument of India's freedom.

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The safest rule of conduct is to claim kinship when we want to do service and not to insist on kinship when we want to assert a right.

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Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes.

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War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing.

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The greater our innocence, the greater our strength and the swifter our victory

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Coal is not dear for the coal-miner who can use it there and then, nor is khadi dear for the villager who manufactures his own khadi.

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I must not refrain from saying that India can gain more by waiving the right of punishment.

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I refuse to believe that the tendency of human nature is always downward.

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In Swaraj, based on ahimsa, people need not know their rights, but it is also necessary for them to know their duties.

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The use of soul-force for turning stones into bread would have been considered, as it is still considered, as black magic.

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That parrot's non-co-operation with the cage, with its master, will live for ever because it looks upon renunciation, non-co-operation, as a joy.

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Love based upon indulgence of animal passion, is at best a selfish affair, and likely to snap under the slightest strain.

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Though I cannot claim to be a Christian in the sectarian sense, the example of Jesus suffering is a factor in the composition of my undying faith in non-violence which rules all my actions, worldly and temporal.

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No police or military in the world can protect people who are cowards.

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I cannot picture to myself a time when all mankind will have one religion.

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I believe that the sum total of the energy of mankind is not to bring us down but to lift us up, and that is the result of the definite, if unconscious, working of the law of love. The fact that mankind persists shows that the cohesive force is greater than the disruptive force, centripetal force greater than centrifugal.

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My heart rebels against any foreigner imposing on my country the peace which is here called Pax-Britannica.

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The spinning wheel is not meant to oust a single man or woman from his or her occupation.

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A fearless woman who knows that her purity is her best shield can never be dishonoured.

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A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all.

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This belief in God has to be based on faith which transcends reason.

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