Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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Unless all the discoveries that you make have the welfare of the poor as the end in view, all your workshops will be really no better than Satan's workshops.

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A nation that is unfit to fight cannot, from experience, prove the virtue of not fighting.

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The only way by which you and I can wean orthodox Hindus from their bigotry is by patient argument and correct conduct.

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It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine.

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What the eyes are for the outer world, fasts are for the inner.

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There is a vital connection between satyagraha and charkha, and the more I find that belief challenged, the more I am confirmed in it.

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To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record.

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God in his wisdom circumscribed man's vision, and rightly too, for otherwise man's conceit would know no bounds.

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A teetotaler would regard it as his duty to associate with his drunkard brother for the purpose of weaning him from the evil habit.

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I want co-operation between nations for the salvaging of civilization, but co-operation presupposes free nations worthy of co-operation.

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There must be power in the word of a satyagraha general, not the power that the possession of limitless arms gives, but the power that purifies life which strict vigilance and a ceaseless application produce.

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It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honor, his religion, his soul, and lay the foundation for that empire's fall or its regeneration.

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Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.

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In the days of democracy there is no such thing as active loyalty to a person. You are, therefore, loyal or disloyal to institutions.

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Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire.

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Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation.

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Woman is more fitted than man to make explorations and take bolder action in ahimsa.

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A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate.

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My knowledge of the letter of the Shastras is better, but of true religion they are able to give me but little.

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The whole existence of man is a ceaseless duel between the forces of life and death.

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Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.

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Let not the spirit wander while the words of prayer run on out of our mouth.

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I cannot give active support in the war effort without denying a life-time of practice.

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It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their armlessness into the central means for deliverance.

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No displeasure, even of the dearest friends, can put me off the duty I see clearly in front of me.

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Surely conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows his creatures' hearts. A conversion without a clean heart is, in my opinion, a denial of God and Religion. Conversion without cleanliness of heart can only be a matter of sorrow, not joy, to a godly person.

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We, the English educated Indians, often unconsciously make the terrible mistake of thinking that the microscopic minority of the English-speaking Indians is the whole of India.

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Newspapers have become more important to the average man than the scriptures.

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Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill.

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There is no "playing with truth" in the Charkha programme, for satyagraha is not predominantly civil disobedience but a quiet and irresistible pursuit of Truth.

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