Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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I have made the world's faith in God my own and as my faith is effaceable, I regard that faith as amounting to experience.

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Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas.

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The consumption of vegetables involves himsa, but I cannot give them up.

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Buddha renounced every worldly happiness because he wanted to share with the whole world his happiness which was to be had by men who sacrificed and suffered in the search for truth.

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If I am true to myself, if I am true to mankind, if I am true to humanity, I must understand all the faults that human flesh is heir to.

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India must protect her primary industries even as a mother protects her children against the whole world without being hostile to it.

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Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin.

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The author of the Mahabharata has not established the necessity of physical warfare; on the contrary he has proved its futility.

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The spinning wheel for us is the foundation for all public corporate life.

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No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority.

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If we want to impart education best suited to the needs of the villagers, we should take the vidyapith to the villages.

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Truth to me is infinitely dearer than the 'mahatmaship' which is purely a burden.

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Belief in non-violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love...

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A slave-holder cannot hold a slave without putting himself or his deputy in the cage for holding the slave.

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Not to believe in the possibility of permanent peace is to disbelieve in the Godliness of human nature.

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And whilst he may not claim superiority by reason of learning, I myself must not withold that meed of homage that learning, wherever it resides, always commands.

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Running away for fear of death, leaving one's dear ones, temples or music to take care of themselves, is irreligion; it is cowardice.

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The states can make the finest contribution to the building of India's future independence if they set the right example in their own territories.

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There is an indefinable mysterious Power that pervades everything.

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A scavenger who works in His service shares equal distinction with a king who uses his gifts in His name and is a mere trustee.

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A plea for the spinning wheel is a plea for recognizing the dignity of labour.

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An India prostrate at the feet of Europe can give no hope to humanity.

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Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation.

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Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa.

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Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment.

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Woman is the embodiment of sacrifice and suffering and her advent to public life should, therefore, result in purifying it, in restraining unbridled ambition and accumulation of property.

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Man's triumph will consist in substituting the struggle for existence by a struggle for mutual service.

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I do not regard killing or assassination or terrorism as good in any circumstances whatsoever.

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For me the Voice of God, of Conscience, of Truth or the Inner Voice or the still small Voice mean one and the same thing.

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Whoever is victor, there should be, after the war, a commonwealth of all nations.

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