Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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Swaraj, without any qualifying clause, includes that which is better than the best one can conceive or have today.

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For me there is a vital connection between the Bihar calamity and the untouchability campaign.

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He who runs may see that opium and such other intoxicants and narcotics stupefy a man's soul and reduce him to a level lower than that of beasts.

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The highest truth needs no communicating, for it is by its very nature self-propelling. It radiates its influence silently as the rose its fragrance without the intervention of a medium.

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Every single act of one who would lead a life of purity should be in the nature of yajna.

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A smattering of English is worse than useless; it is an unnecessary tax on our women.

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Non -violence is infinitely superior to violence, forgiveness is more manly than punishment. Forgiveness is the ornament.

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Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government.

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To remove untouchability is a penance that caste Hindus owe to Hinduism and to themselves.

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A definite forgiveness would mean a definite recognition of our strength.

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Peace is unattained by part performance of conditions, even as a chemical combination is impossible without complete fulfillment of the conditions of attainment thereof.

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I still somehow or other fancy that "my philosophy" represents the true meaning of the teaching of the Gita.

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Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science.

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Decency requires that when a programme is approved by the majority, all should carry it out faithfully.

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God is Light, not darkness. God is Love, not hate. God is truth, not untruth. God alone is great.

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It is wonderful, if we chose the right diet, what an extraordinarily small quantity would suffice.

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A votary of ahimsa always prays for ultimate deliverance from the bondage of the flesh.

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I am not conscious of a single experience throughout my three months' stay in England and Europe that made me feel that after all East is East and West is West. On the contrary, I have been convinced more than ever that human nature is much the same, no matter under what clime it flourishes, and that if you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold affection returned to you.

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I believe that the yarn we spin is capable of mending the broken warp and woof of our life!

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Languages proclaim that woman is half of man, and by parity of reasoning, man is half of woman.

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I hold no man to be indispensable for the welfare of the country.

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He who atones for sins never calculates; he pours out the whole essence of his contrite heart.

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Study not man in his animal nature - man following the laws of the jungle - but study man in all his glory.

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It is a mark of wisdom not to kick away the very step from which we have risen higher. The removal of one step from a staircase brings down the whole of it.

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What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.

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Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.

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God is continuously in action, without resting for a single moment.

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We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not so as to degrade other countries.

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Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion.

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Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. This is God's attribute alone. Relative truth is all we know. Therefore, we can only follow the truth as we see it. Such pursuit of truth cannot lead anyone astray.

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