Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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A Swaraj government means a government established by the free joint will of Hindus, Mussalmans and others.

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Ram Mohan Roy would have been a greater reformer and Lokmanya Tilak a greater scholar if they had not to start with the handicap of having to think in English and transmit their thoughts chiefly in English.

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I believe in the absolute oneness of God and therefore of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but one soul.... I know God is neither in heaven nor down below, but in everyone.

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A warrior lives on his wars, whether offensive or defensive. And he suffers a collapse if he finds that his warring capacity is unwanted.

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What I call the law of satyagraha is to be deduced from an appreciation of duties and rights flowing therefrom.

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Fight if you must on the path of righteousness and God will be with you.

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The essence of a vow does not consist in the difficulty of its performance but in the determination behind it unflinchingly to stick to it in the teeth of difficulties.

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Between the two, the nationalist and the imperialist, there is no meeting ground.

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Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As the author of satyagraha I cannot, consistently with my profession, suppress the vital part of myself for the sake of being able to write on permissible subjects.... It would be like dealing with the trunk without the head.

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It is the best thing to blame ourselves when people cannot get on well with us. Boundless charity necessarily includes all or it ceases to be boundless. We must be strict with ourselves and lenient with our neighbors. For we know not their difficulties and what they overcome.

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I know that not only is Swaraj our birthright, but it is our sacred duty to win it.

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Liberty is a dearly bought commodity and prisons are factories where it is manufactured.

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We notice that the mind is a restless bird; the more it gets the more it wants, and still remains unsatisfied. The more we indulge our passions the more unbridled they become. Our ancestors, therefore, set a limit to our indulgences. They saw that happiness was largely a mental condition. A man is not necessarily happy because he is rich, or unhappy because he is poor.... Millions will always remain poor.

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Ahimsa magnifies one's own defects, and minimizes those of the opponent. It regards the mole in one's own eye as a beam and the beam in the opponent's eye as a mole.

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Religion to be true must satisfy what may be termed humanitarian economics, that is, where the income and the expenditure balance each other.

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Let no one try to justify the glaring difference between the classes and the masses, the prince and the pauper, by saying that the former need more.

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Truth, purity, self-control, firmness, fearlessness, humility, unity, peace, and renunciation - these are the inherent qualities of a civil resister.

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Swaraj is not meant for cowards, but for those who would mount smilingly to the gallows and refuse even to allow their eyes to be bandaged.

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You may pluck out my eyes, but that cannot kill me. You may chop off my nose, but that will not kill me. But blast my belief in God, and I am dead.

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Knowledge and devotion, to be true, have to stand the test of renunciation of the fruits of action.

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Man will ever remain imperfect, and it will always be his part to try to be perfect.

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A straight fight in an equal battle takes some bravery, but braver is he who, knowing that he would have to sacrifice ninety-five as against five of the enemy, faces death.

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Often does good come out of evil. But that is God's, not man's plan.

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How can I even secretly harbour the thought that my neighbour's faith is inferior to mine?

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Under my plan, the state will be there to carry out the will of the people, not to dictate to them or to force them to do its will.

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God lives, but not as we. His creatures live but to die. But God is life. Therefore, goodness is not an attribute. Goodness is God.

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Prayer is the only means of bringing about orderliness and peace and repose in our daily acts.

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Non-co-operation means refusal both to help the sinner in his sin and not to accept any help or gift from him till he has repented.

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A living faith cannot be manufactured by the rule of majority

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Undoubtedly, prayer requires a living faith in God. Successful satyagraha is inconceivable without that faith.

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