Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance.

Mahatma Gandhi
Though violence is not lawful, when it is offered in self-defense or for the defense of the defenseless, it is an act of bravery far better than cowardly submission. The latter befits neither man nor woman. Under violence, there are many stages and varieties of bravery. Every man must judge this for himself. No other person can or has the right.

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Love is needed to strengthen the weak; love becomes tyrannical when it exacts obedience from an unbeliever.

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Love is a rare herb that makes a friend even of a sworn enemy and this herb grows out of nonviolence.

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Prayer from the heart can achieve what nothing else can in the world.

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God will not be God, if He allowed Himself to be the object of proof by His creatures.

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I shall content myself with merely declaring my firm conviction that, for the seeker who would live in fear of God and who would see Him face to face, restraint in diet both as to quantity and quality is as essential as restraint in thought and speech.

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The cause of the spinning wheel is too great and too good to have to rest on mere hero-worship.

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The seeker is at liberty to extract from this treasure any meaning he likes, so as to enable him to enforce in his life the central teaching.

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Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law.

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The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton.

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My modesty has prevented me from declaring from the house top that the message of non-co-operation, nonviolence and swadeshi is a message to the world.

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Some form of common worship and a common place of worship appear to be a human necessity.

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It is the faith and perseverance and single-mindedness with which Hitler has perfected his weapons of destruction that commands my admiration.

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A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings.

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Great causes cannot be served by intellectual equipment alone, they call for spiritual effort of soul-force.

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A poet is one who can call forth the good latent in the human beast.

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Man should earnestly desire the well - being of all God's creations and pray that we may have the strength to do so.

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The avowed policy of non-co-operation has been not to make political use of the disputes between labour and capital.

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Tolstoy's so-called inconsistencies were a sign of his development and his passionate regard for truth.

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Men like me feel that untouchability is no integral part of Hinduism, it is an excrescence.

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No stone should be left unturned to bring home to the family members that untouchability is a sin and a blot on Hinduism.

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By Ram Raj I do not mean Hindu Raj. I mean by Ram Raj, Divine Raj, the Kingdom of God.

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What, however, left a deep impression on me was the reading of the Ramayana before my father. During part of his illness my father was in Porbandar. There every evening he used to listen to the Ramayana.

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God is not in Kaaba or in Kashi. He is within everyone of us.

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God always saves the world from the consequences of unintended errors of men who live in fear of Him.

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A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience.

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No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation.

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A semi-starved nation can have neither religion nor art nor organization.

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In Hinduism we have got an admirable foot-rule to measure every shastra and every rule of conduct, and that is truth.

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