Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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If you want to play your part in the world's affairs, you must refuse to deck yourselves for pleasing man.

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The idol in the temple is not God. But since God resides in every atom, He resides in that idol too.

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Can a general fight on the strength of soldiers, who, he knows, have no faith in him?

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Is it not possible for us all to realize that the masses will never mount to freedom through murder?

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Reason has to be strengthened by suffering, and suffering opens the eyes of understanding.

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I will say that if there is anything like God Or Truth on earth, Hindu-Muslim unity is also possible.

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Assumption of superiority by any person over any other is a sin against God and man.

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I have repeatedly stated that satyagraha never fails and that one perfect satyagrahi is enough to vindicate Truth.

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Truth is not truth merely because it is ancient. Nor is truth necessarily to be regarded with suspicion because it is ancient.

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My ahimsa would not tolerate the idea of giving a free meal to a healthy person who has not worked for it in some honest way.

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The saving of labour of the individual should be the object and honest humanitarian considerations, and not greed, the motive.

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Knowledge of the tallest scientist or the greatest spiritualist is like a particle of dust.

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I do regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism are.

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The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die.

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Satyagraha can rid society of all evils, political, economic and moral.

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If the circulation of blood theory could not have been discovered without vivisection, the human kind could well have done without it.

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I do not like the word tolerance, but could not think of a better one. Tolerance implies a gratuitous assumption of the inferiority of other faiths to one

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So long as untouchability disfigures Hinduism, so long do I hold the attainment of Swaraj to be an utter impossibility.

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Our non-co-operation is with the system the English have established in India, with the material civilization and its attendant greed and exploitation of the weak.

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My religion enables me, obliges me to imbibe all that is good in all the great religions of the earth.

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I literally believe in the possibility of a Sudhanva smiling away whilst he was being drowned in boiling oil.

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The object of the Gita appears to me to be that of showing the most excellent way to attain self-realization.

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That nation is great which rests its head upon death as its pillow.

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Untouchability is a blot on Hinduism. It is a canker eating into its vitals.

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I was a co-operator too in the sense that I non-co-operated for co-operation, and even then I said that if I could carry the country forward by co-operation I should co-operate.

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It will profit you nothing to remember old wrongs and nurse old enmities.

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I see a clear breach of ahimsa even in driving away monkeys; the breach would be proportionately greater if they have to be killed.

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Where there are millions upon millions of units of idle labour, it is no use thinking of labour-saving devices.

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Purification is never for the selfishly idle, it accrues only to the selflessly industrious.

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Strictly speaking, no activity and no industry is possible without a certain amount of violence, no matter how little. Even the very process of living is impossible without a certain amount of violence. What we have to do is to minimize it to the greatest extent possible.

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