Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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It is a sad thing that our schoolboys look upon manual labour with disfavour, if not contempt.

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Every woman will tell the curious that with the disappearance of the spinning wheel vanished India's happiness and prosperity.

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Civil disobedience can never be in general terms, such as for independence.

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It is derogatory to the dignity of mankind, it is derogatory to the dignity of India, to entertain for one single moment hatred towards Englishmen.

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In order that knowledge may not run riot, the author of the Gita has insisted on devotion accompanying it and has given it the first place.

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Swaraj can only be achieved through an all-round consciousness of the masses.

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Every living faith must have within itself the power of rejuvenation if it is to live

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Sorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily borne, but not if they are imposed.

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To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.

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Every person in a well-ordered state is fully conscious of both his responsibilities and his rights.

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A rose will smell as sweet by any other name, but it must be the rose of liberty that I want and not the artificial product.

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Life becomes livable only to the extent that death is treated as a friend, never as an enemy.

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The message of the Gita is to be found in the second chapter of the Gita where Lord Krishna speaks of the balanced state of mind, of mental equipoise.

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Let the Gita be to you a mine of diamonds, as it has been to me; let it be your constant guide and friend on life's way.

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A slave- holder, who has decided to abolish slavery, does not consult his slaves whether they desire freedom or not.

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The incident deepened my feeling for the Indian settlers. I discussed with them the advisability of making a test case, if it were found necessary to do so, after having seen the British Agent in the matter of these regulations.

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The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification.

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True art must be evidence of happiness, contentment and purity of its authors.

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God has made of man and woman one complete whole. In the scheme of nature, both of them are equal.

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National education to be truly national must reflect the national condition for the time being.

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Man is not to drown himself in the well of the Shastras, but he is to dive in their broad ocean and bring out pearls.

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Real power does not consist in the ability to inflict capital punishment upon the subjects, but in the will and the ability to protect the subjects against the world.

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When you want to find Truth as God, the only inevitable means is love, that is nonviolence.

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All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.

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All the dry ethics of the world turn to dust because apart from God they are lifeless.

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It is a travesty of true religion to consider one's own religion as superior and other's as inferior.

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In the characteristics of the perfected man of the Gita, I do not see any to correspond to physical warfare.

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This feeling of helplessness in us has arisen from our deliberate dismissal of God from our common affairs.

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True ahimsa should mean a complete freedom from ill-will and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all.

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The word 'defeat' is not to be found in my dictionary, and everyone who is selected as a recruit in my army may be certain that there is no defeat for a satyagrahi.

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