Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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No sacrifice is worth the name unless it is a joy. Sacrifice and a long face go ill together. Sacrifice is 'making sacred'. He must be a poor specimen of humanity who is in need of sympathy for his sacrifice.

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A vow must lead one upwards, never downwards towards perdition.

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If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the Granth Sahib or the Koran?

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Mine is not a religion of the prison-house. It has room for the least among God's creation.

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What I want to achieve, what I have been striving and pining for these thirty years, is self-realization, that is, to see God face to face.

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Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion.

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I am a seasoned soldier of nonviolence, and I have evidence enough to sustain my faith.

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It is the function of God Rama to destroy evil, wherever it occurs and it is equally the function of God Rama to give to his devotees like Bibhishana a free charter of irrevocable self-government.

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I call the Lancashire trade immoral, because it was raised and is sustained on the ruin of millions of India's peasants.

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Khaddar has the greatest organizing power in it because it has itself to be organized and because it affects all India.

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I believe that there is no prayer without fasting and there is no real fast without prayer.

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To find truth completely is to realize oneself and one's destiny, i.e. to become perfect.

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The hardest heart and the grossest ignorance must disappear before the rising sun of suffering without anger and without malice.

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God took and needed no personal service. He served His creatures without demanding any service for Himself in return.

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Moral restrictions tend to become lax in a foreign country, since the fear of social opinion disappears.

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All religions teach that two opposite forces act upon us and the human endeavour consists in a series of eternal rejections and acceptances.

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Men to be men must be able to trust their womenfolk, even as the latter are compelled to trust them.

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Tolerance obviously does not disturb the distinction between right and wrong, or good and evil.

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Ours is a civil fight, and imprisonment as a civil prisoner has got to be earned by the strict observance of the programme.

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If Hinduism teaches hatred of Islam or of non-Hindus, it is doomed to destruction.

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Self-restraint is the very keystone of the ethics of vow-taking.

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Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses.

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In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed.

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I have mentally become a woman in order to steal into her heart.

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Man's upward progress means ever increasing difficulty, which is to be welcomed.

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Spiritual force is like any other force at the service of man.

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The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet.

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Death is no fiend, he is the truest of friends. He delivers us from agony.

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A man who would interpret the scriptures must have the spiritual discipline.

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Faith is not imparted like secular subjects. It is given through the language of the heart.

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