Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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Was it that you wanted to pull my leg by transporting me to the frozen Himalayan heights of 'mahatmaship' and claiming for yourself absolution from having to follow my precepts?

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Whatever may be the pros and cons of going to the public theatre, it is a patent fact that it has undermined the morals and ruined the character of many a youth in his country.

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It was manly and dignified to rely upon God for the dissolution of all troubles. He was the only infallible help, guide and friend.

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Ahimsa is nothing if not a well-balanced, exquisite consideration for one's neighbour, and an idle man is wanting in that elementary consideration.

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Who can deny that much that passes for science and art today destroys the soul instead of uplifting it and instead of evoking the best in us, panders to our basest passions?

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The mundane use of the Gayatri, its repetition for healing the sick, illustrates the meaning we have given to prayer.

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No man has ever been able to describe God fully. The same holds true of ahimsa.

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

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

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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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Nonviolence, in its dynamic condition means conscious suffering.

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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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