Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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Swaraj is our birthright. No one can deprive us of it unless we forfeit it ourselves.

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Woman is, by habit or nature, queen of the household. She is not designed to organize on a large scale.

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God has enabled me to affect the life of the country since 1920 without the necessity of office.

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Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood.

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I implicitly believe in the truth of the saying that not a blade of grass moves but by His will. He will save it (my life) if He needs it for further service in this body. None can save it against His will.

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Even if masses of people were to burn khadi publicly and say that it is an insane programme, I will declare that those people have gone mad.

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I would bend the knee before the poorest scavenger, the poorest untouchable in India for having participated in crushing him for centuries; I would even take the dust off his feet.

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You cannot stop big wars if you carry on little wars yourselves.

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The State is the sum total of the sacrifice, on its behalf, of its members.

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Vehement writing, even if it is charged with truth, is no answer to violent action.

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I condemn, for all climes and for all times, secret murders and unfair methods even for a fair cause.

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I would risk violence a thousand times rather than risk the emasculation of the whole race.

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We cannot have real independence unless the people banish the touch-me-not spirit from their hearts.

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Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.

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India is less manly under the British rule than she ever was before.

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To shirk taking of vows betrays indecision and want of resolution.

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You will eat not to satisfy your palate but your hunger. A self-indulgent man lives to eat; a self-restrained man eats to live.

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Nonviolent defence presupposes recklessness about one's life and property.

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A man's true wealth hereafter is the good he has done to his fellowmen.

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We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him.

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I own no property and yet I feel that I am perhaps the richest man in the world.

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The whole world is in the throes of a new birth. Anything done for a temporary gain would be tantamount to an abortion.

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I have recognized that the nation has the right, if it so wills, to vindicate her freedom even by actual violence.

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Let the content of Swaraj grow with the growth of national consciousness and aspirations.

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It is impossible to wait and weigh, in golden scales, the sentiments of prejudice and superstition that have gathered round the priests who are considered to be the custodians of Hinduism.

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My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible.

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The golden rule to apply in all such cases is resolutely to refuse to have what millions cannot.

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Nonviolence is not an easy thing to understand, still less to practice, weak as we are.

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Naked violence repels like the naked skeleton shorn of flesh, blood and the velvety skin.

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It is a heavy downpour of rain which drenches the soil to fullness; likewise only a profuse shower of love can overcome hatred.

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