Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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Civil disobedience and excitement and intoxication go ill together.

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No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will.

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Religion is not like a house or a cloak which can be changed at will.

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God cannot be so cruel and unjust as to make the distinctions of high and low between man and man, and woman and woman.

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A dissolute character is more dissolute in thought than in deed. And the same is true of violence. Our violence in word and deed is but a feeble echo of the surging violence of thought in us.

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India unarmed would not require to be destroyed through poison gas or bombardment.

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Disobedience, to be civil, implies discipline, thought, care, attention.

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Freedom from all attachment is the realization of God as Truth.

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No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred.

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Man is sent into the world to perform his duty even at the cost of his life.

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God rules even where Satan seems to hold sway, because the latter exists only on God's sufferance.

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My personal religion enables me to serve my countrymen without hurting the English or, for that matter, anybody else.

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There being no absolute and universal standard of right, terrorism must be held to be wrong in every case.

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For India to enter into the race for armaments is to court suicide.

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Restore the spinning wheel to its place and you will solve the problem of poverty.

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I have had the hardihood to say that Swaraj could not be granted even by God.

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The mind may wander, but let not the senses wander with it. If the senses wander where the mind takes them, one is done for.

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The method of satyagraha requires that the satyagrahi should never lose hope, so long as there is the slightest ground left for it.

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The alphabet of ahimsa is best learnt in domestic school and I can say from experience that if we secure success there, we are sure to do so everywhere else.

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Political power means the capacity to regulate national life through national representatives.

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God's word is:
'He who strives never perishes.'
I have implicit faith in that promise.
Though, therefore, from my weakness
I fail a thousand times, I shall not lose faith.

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We do not know whether it is good to live or to die. Therefore, we should not take delight in living, nor should we tremble at the thought of death. We should be equiminded towards death. This is the ideal. It may be long before we reach it, and only a few of us can attain it. Even then, we must keep it constantly in view, and the more difficult it seems of attainment, the greater should be the effort we put forth.

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Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.

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India will not be a helpless partner in her own exploitation and foreign domination.

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No two men are absolutely alike, not even twins, yet there is much that is indispensably common to all mankind.

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If our ahimsa is not of the brave but of the weak, and if it will bend the knee before himsa, Gandhism deserves to be destroyed.

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A perfect Muslim is he from whose tongue and hands mankind is safe.

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A personal selfish prayer is bad whether made before an image or an unseen God.

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I know that Buddhism is to Hinduism what Protestantism is to Roman Catholicism, only in a much stronger light, to a much greater degree.

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That economics is untrue which ignores or disregards moral values.

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