Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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Man must choose either of the two courses, the upward or the downward; but as he has the brute in him, he will more easily choose the downward course than the upward, especially when the downward course is presented to him in a beautiful garb. Man easily capitulates when sin is presented in the garb of virtue.

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Legal imposition avoids the necessity of honour or good faith.

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The hater hates not for the sake of hatred but because he wants to drive away from his country the hated being or beings.

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When a man vowed to nonviolence as the law governing human beings dares to refer to war, he can only do it so as to strain every nerve to avoid it.

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God's laws are eternal and unalterable and not separable from God Himself.

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The cause is everything. Those even who are dearest to us must be shunted for the sake of the cause.

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Never own defeat in a sacred cause and make up your minds henceforth that you will be pure and that you will find a response from God.

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We shall dig our own grave if we do not purge ourselves of this curse of untouchability.

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The rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society.

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Truth is my religion and ahimsa is the only way of its realization.

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Government of the people by the people and for the people cannot be conducted at the bidding of one man, however great he may be.

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God resides in every human form, indeed in every particle of His creations, in everything that is on his earth.

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Every calamity should lead to a thorough cleansing of individual as well as social life.

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Man has regarded woman as his tool. She has learnt to be his tool and in the end found it is easy and pleasurable to be such, because when one drags another in his fall, the descent is easy.

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Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience.

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The commerce between India and Africa will be of ideas and services, not of the manufactured goods against raw materials after the fashion of the Western exploiters.

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God has given us only a limited sphere of action and a limited vision.

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Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect.

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Swaraj means even under dominion status a capacity to declare independence at will.

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There can be no friendship between cowards, or cowards and brave men.

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Real education has to draw out the best from the boys and girls to be educated.

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If the Commander-in-Chief will look beyond the defence forces, he will discover that the real India is not military but peace-loving.

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A man of God never strives after untruth and therefore he can never lose hope.

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Work for Swaraj fails to appeal to us because we have no music in us.

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All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles.

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A spirit is not necessarily purer, because it is disembodied.

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The bomb-throwers have discredited the cause of freedom, in whose name they threw the bombs.

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It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to speak impromptu. I hesitated whenever I had to face strange audiences and avoided making a speech whenever I could. Even today I do not think I could or would even be inclined to keep a meeting of friends engaged in idle talk.

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I suggest that we are thieves in a way. If I take anything that I do not need for my own immediate use, and keep it, I thieve it from somebody else.... Nature produces enough for our wants from day to day, and if only every-body took enough for himself and nothing more, there would be no pauperism in this world, there would be no man dying of starvation in this world. But so long as we have got this inequality, so long we are thieving.

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Nothing can be more hurtful to an honourable man than that he should be accused of bad faith.

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