Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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'Physician, heal thyself' is more true in matters religious than mundane.

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Newspapers today have almost replaced the Bible, the Koran, the Gita and other religious scriptures.

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True education is that which proves useful in life and makes you industrious.

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Machinery is the chief symbol of modern civilization; it represents a great sin.

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India's way is not Europe's. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages.

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Work without faith is like an attempt to reach the bottom of a bottomless pit.

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If all simply insist on rights and no duties, there will be utter confusion and chaos.

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If the lambs of the world had been willingly led, they would have long ago saved themselves from the butcher's knife.

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If there was any teacher in the world who insisted upon the inexorable law of cause and effect, it was Gautam, and yet my friends, the Buddhists outside India, would, if they could, avoid the effects of their own acts.

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India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.

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I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people.

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Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence.

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A votary of ahimsa cannot subscribe to the utilitarian formula (of the greatest good of the greatest number). He will strive for the greatest good of all and die in the attempt to realize that ideal.

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The man who eats to live, who is friends with the five powers - earth, water, ether, sun and air - who is a servant of God, the Creator of all these, ought not to fall ill.

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I would like to bury myself in an Indian village, preferably in a Frontier village.

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Without a belief in my programme and without an acceptance of my condition, you will ruin me, ruin yourselves and ruin the cause.

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A person unbound by vows can never be absolutely relied upon.

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If we were strong, self-respecting and not susceptible to frightfulness, the foreign rulers would have been powerless for mischief.

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Seeing God face to face is to feel that He is enthroned in our hearts even as a child feels a mother's affection without needing any demonstration.

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No labour is too mean for one who wants to earn an honest penny.

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Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself?

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Openness of mind strengthens the truth in us and removes the dross from it, if there is any.

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The woman who knows and fulfils her duty realizes her dignified status.

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I love Christianity, Islam and many other faiths - through Hinduism.

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For a firm believer in swadeshi, there need be no Pharisaical self-satisfaction in wearing khadi.

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What has appealed to me most in Tolstoy's life is that he practiced what he preached and reckoned no cost too great in his pursuit of truth.

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Nonviolence is the virtue of the manly. The coward is innocent of it.

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It hurts me to think that people in their rush for everything modern despise all their ancient traditions and ignore them in their lives.

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My only sanction is the love and affection in which you hold me. But it has its weaknesses, as it has its strengths.

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The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.

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