Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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I have nothing of the communalist in me because my Hinduism is all inclusive.

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My own opinion is that just as fundamentally man and woman are one, their problems must be one in essence.

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Steam becomes a mighty power only when it allows itself to be imprisoned in a strong little reservoir, produces tremendous motion and carries huge weights by permitting itself a tiny and measured outlet.

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In our progress towards the goal, we ever see more and more enchanting scenery.

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Mere brave speech without action is letting off useless steam.

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That religion and that nation will be blotted out of the face of the earth which pins its faith on injustice, untruth or violence.

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My religion forbids me to belittle or disregard other cultures, as it insists, under pain of civil suicide, upon imbibing and living my own.

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At times, non-co-operation becomes as much a duty as co-operation.

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God created man to work for his food and said that those who ate without work were thieves.

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Free, open love I have looked upon as dog's love. Secret love is, besides, cowardly.

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God has so ordered this world that no one can keep his goodness or badness exclusively to himself.

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When the fear of jail disappears, repression puts heart into the people.

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One cannot reach Truth by untruthfulness. Truthful conduct alone can reach truth.

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For a fallen India to aspire to move the world and protect the weaker races is seemingly an impertinence.

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Religion is one tree with many branches. As branches, you may say, religions are many, but as a tree, religion is only one.

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My non-co-operation is a token of my earnest longing for real heart co-operation in the place of co-operation falsely so called.

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It was through the Hindu religion that I learnt to respect Christianity and Islam.

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For Hindus to expect Islam, Christianity or Zoroastrianism to be driven out of India is as idle a dream as it would be for Mussalmans to have only Islam of their imagination rule the world.

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History is a record of perpetual wars, but we are now trying to make new history.

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What is gained by violence must be lost before superior violence.

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If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide.

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Buddha never rejected Hinduism, but he broadened its base. He gave it a new life and a new interpretation.

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I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonour. But I believe that nonviolence is infinitely superior to violence, forgiveness is more manly than punishment.

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Nothing can so quickly put the masses on their legs as the spinning wheel and all it means.

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Freedom of worship, even of public speech, would become a farce if interference became the order of the day.

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We have to tackle the triple malady which holds our villages fast in its grip; want of corporate sanitation, deficient diet and inertia.

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People engaged in a war do not lose temper over matters which affect the fortunes of war.

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Active nonviolence of the brave puts to flight thieves, dacoits, murderers, and prepares an army of volunteers ready to sacrifice themselves in quelling riots, in extinguishing fires and feuds, and so on.

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Though a non-co-operator, I shall gladly subscribe to a bill to make it criminal for anybody to call me mahatma and to touch my feet.

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An India awakened and free has a message of peace and goodwill to a groaning world.

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