Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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If India is not to declare spiritual bankruptcy, religious instruction of its youth must be held to be at least as necessary as secular instruction.

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If there ever is to be a republic of every village in India, then I claim verity for my picture in which the last is equal to the first or, in other words, no one is to be the first and none the last.

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Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society.

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A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution.

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Hatred is not essential for nationalism. Race hatred will kill the real national spirit.

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I know of no religion or sect that has done or is doing without a house of God, variously described as a temple, a mosque, a church, a synagogue or agiary.

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My respectful study of other religions has not abated my reverence for or my faith in the Hindu scriptures.

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Hinduism has absorbed the best of all the faiths of the world and in that sense Hinduism is not an exclusive religion.

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It is my great misfortune that I have to measure your love by the money gifts you give for Daridranarayana.

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Independence of my conception means nothing less than the realization of the "Kingdom of God" within you and on this earth.

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My nationalism, fierce though it is, is not exclusive, is not devised to harm any nation or individual.

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Marriage must cease to be a matter of arrangement made by parents for money.

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God, who is the embodiment of Truth and Right and Justice, can never have sanctioned a religion or practice which regards one - fifth of our vast population as untouchables.

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To a people famishing and idle, the only acceptable form in which God can dare appear is work and promise of food as wages.

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A satyagrahi exhausts all other means before he resorts to satyagraha.

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All religions are branches of the same mighty tree, but I must not change over from one branch to another for the sake of expediency.

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Yajna is not yajna if one feels it to be burdensome or annoying.

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The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.

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No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world.

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In a strictly scientific sense God is at the bottom of both good and evil.

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Though philosophical Hinduism has no other god but God, it cannot be denied that practical Hinduism is not so emphatically uncompromising as Islam.

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We shall make progress towards Swaraj only if we do everything thoughtfully and with understanding.

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Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.

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That prince is acceptable to me who becomes a prince among his people's servants.

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When we fear God, then we shall fear no man, however high-placed he may be.

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What is it but my ahimsa that draws thousands of women to me in fearless confidence?

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Religion is the tie that binds one to one's Creator, and whilst the body perishes, as it has to, religion persists even after death.

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Through realization of freedom of India, I hope to realize and carry on the mission of brotherhood of man.

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A certain degree of physical harmony and comfort is necessary, but above a certain level it becomes a hindrance instead of a help. Therefore the ideal of creating an unlimited number of wants and satisfying them seems to be a delusion and a snare.

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Without devotion, action and knowledge are cold and dry and many even become shackles.

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