Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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Half-a-dozen or twenty cities of India alone working together cannot bring Swaraj.

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Ramanama purifies while it cures, and, therefore, it elevates.

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Ramanama can be used only for a good, never for an evil end, or else thieves and robbers would be the greatest devotees.

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The eternal duel between Ormuzd and Ahriman, God and Satan, is raging in my breast, which is one among their billion battlefields.

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All education in a country has got to be demonstrably in promotion of the progress of the country in which it is given.

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It only confirms me in my belief that there is no Swaraj without a settlement with the Mussalmans.

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Individual liberty is allowed to man only to a certain extent. He cannot forget that he is a social being and his individual liberty has to be curtailed at every step.

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Journalism has a distinct place in familiarizing and expressing public opinion.

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We have to make truth and non-violence not matters for mere individual practice but for practice by groups and communities and nations. That at any rate is my dream. I shall live and die in trying to realize it. My faith helps me to discover new truths every day.

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My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.

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To gain India's freedom, the capacity for suffering must go hand in hand with the capacity for ceaseless labour.

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Where my own mission is concerned, my thought is active, and I try to wish everyone well in spite of doubts and mistrust.

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True paurusha, true bravery, consists in driving out the brute in us.

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My own veneration for other faiths is the same as that for my own faith; therefore no thought of conversion is possible

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In order to get meat, we have to kill. And we are certainly not entitled to any other milk except the mother's milk in our infancy.

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My optimism rests on my belief in the infinite possibilities of the individual to develop nonviolence.... In a gentle way you can shake the world.

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I desire no honour if I have to conceal my religious beliefs in order to have it.

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Every man has an equal right to the necessaries of life even as birds and beasts have.

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My mother would tell me that the shortest cut to purification after the unholy touch was to cancel the touch by touching any Mussalman passing by.

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What is life worth without trials and tribulations which are the salt of life.

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My love for nonviolence is superior to every other thing, mundane or super mundane.

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It was our love of foreign cloth that ousted the wheel from its position of dignity.

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A perfect mind comes from a perfect heart, not the heart known by a doctor's stethoscope but the heart which is the seat of God.

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The Charkha supplemented the agriculture of the villagers and gave it dignity.

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Hinduism with its message of ahimsa is to me the most glorious religion in the world.

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The chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man.

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It is for us to make the effort. The result is always in God's hands.

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Religion is no test of nationality, but a personal matter between man and his God.

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Indian nationalism is not exclusive, nor aggressive, nor destructive.

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I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence.

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