Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties.

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I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.

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Spiritually, compulsory disarmament has made us unmanly, and the presence of an alien army of occupation, employed with deadly effect to crush in us the spirit of resistance, has made us think we cannot look after ourselves or put up a defense against foreign aggression, or even defend our homes and families...

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"All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense.

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If I was to be their real teacher and guardian, I must touch their hearts, I must share their joys and sorrows, I must help them to solve the problems that faced them, and I must take along the right channel the surging aspirations of their youth.

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To bear all kinds of tortures without a murmur of resentment is not possible for a human being without the strength that comes from God.

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Ravana was a rakshasa but this rakshasi of untouchability is even more terrible than Ravana.

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God is that indefinable something which we all feel but which we do not know.

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I have not lost the hope that the masses will refuse to bow to the Moloch of war but they will rely upon their own capacity for suffering to save their country's honour.

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We must widen the circle of our love till it embraces the whole village; the village in its turn must take into its fold the district, the district the province, and so on until the scope of our love becomes co-terminous with the world.

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I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage.

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Democracy is a great institution and, therefore, it is liable to be greatly abused.

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When there is no desire for fruit, there is also no temptation for untruth or himsa.

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Prayer is an impossibility without a living faith in the presence of God within.

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The voice of the people may be said to be God's voice, the voice of the Panchayat.

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India's coming into her own will mean every nation doing likewise.

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The call of the spinning wheel is the noblest of all. Because it is the call of love. And love is Swaraj.

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Ahimsa means infinite love, which again means infinite capacity for suffering.

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Swaraj is not a product of excitement or intoxication. Swaraj will be the natural and inevitable result of business like habits.

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Dignity of human nature requires that we must face the storms of life.

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I consider Western Christianity in its practical working a negation of Christ's Christianity.

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What God may have enabled me to do is but a repayment of debt, and he who repays a debt deserves no praise.

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The truth is that cowardice itself is violence of a subtle type and therefore dangerous and far more difficult to eradicate than the habit of physical violence.

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The art of producing good music from a cultivated voice can be achieved by many, but the art of producing that music from the harmony of a pure life is achieved very rarely.

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Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants.

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I know that in embarking on non-violence I shall be running what might be termed a mad risk. But the victories of truth have never been won without risks.

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For satyagraha and its offshoots, non-co-operation and civil resistance, are nothing but new names for the law of suffering.

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My experience teaches me that truth can never be propagated by doing violence.

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The present war is the saturation point in violence. It spells, to my mind, also its doom.

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It is claimed for satyagraha that it is a complete substitute for violence or war.

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