Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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It is necessary first to purify the drunken and dissolute worshippers in charge of some of these temples.

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A true and nonviolent combination of labour would act like a magnet attracting to it all the needed capital.

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Untouchability of foreign cloth is as much a virtue with all of us as untouchability of the suppressed classes must be a sin with every devout Hindu.

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To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.

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In a self-respecting India, is not every woman's virtue as much every man's concern as his own sister's?

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Our existence as embodied beings is purely momentary; what are a hundred years in eternity? But if we shatter the chains of egotism, and melt into the ocean of humanity, we share its dignity. To feel that we are something is to set up a barrier between God and ourselves; to cease feeling that we are something, is to become one with God.

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Tulsidas's Ramayana is a notable book because it is informed with the spirit of purity, pity and piety.

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The most practical, the most dignified way of going on in the world is to take people at their word, when you have no positive reason to the contrary.

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Bravery on the battlefield is impossible for us. Bravery of the soul still remains open to us.

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Hinduism dies if untouchability lives, and untouchability has to die if Hinduism is to live.

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God is certainly one. He has no second. He is unfathomable, unknowable and unknown to the vast majority of mankind.

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If treachery is the reward of trust, will the man who trusts come to harm?

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Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face.

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The moment the cultivators of the soil realize their power, the evil of Zamindari will be sterilized.

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Even the atheists, who have pretended to disbelieve in God, have believed in Truth.

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The essence of true religious teaching is that one should serve and befriend all.

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True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind.

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It needs more than a heart of oak to shed all fear except the fear of God.

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Time is wealth, and the Gita says the Great Annihilator annihilates those who waste time.

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It goes without saying that moderation and sobriety are of the very essence of vow-taking.

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Prosecution of the constructive programme means constructing the structure of Swaraj.

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If we import compulsion in matters of religion, there is no doubt that we shall be committing suicide.

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The taking of vows that are not feasible or that are beyond one's capacity would betray thoughtlessness and want of balance.

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It is a tragedy that religion for us means, today, nothing more than restrictions on food and drink, nothing more than adherence to absence of superiority and inferiority.

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I hold that without truth and nonviolence there can be nothing but destruction of humanity.

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Rama was not only on the lips of Hanuman. He was enthroned in his heart. He gave Hanuman exhaustless strength.

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What faith can you place in a general or a soldier who lacks resolution and determination, who says, 'I shall keep guard as long as I can'?

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The richest grace of ahimsa will descend easily upon the owner of hard discipline.

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Hinduism has become a conservative religion and, therefore, a mighty force because of the swadeshi spirit underlying it.

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The quest of Truth involves tapas-self-suffering-sometimes even unto death.

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