Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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My Rama, the Rama of our prayers, is not the historical Rama, the son of Dasharatha, the king of Ayodhya.

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But I never again went through this street. There would be other men coming in this man's place and, ignorant of the incident, they would behave likewise. Why should I unnecessarily court another kick? I therefore selected a different walk.

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External fears cease of their own accord when once we have conquered these traitors within the camp.

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But success and failure are of no account. They are God's concern, not mine.

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This belief in the necessity of English training has enslaved us. It has unfitted us for true national service.

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I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit alone when the time comes.

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Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life.

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The story of the creation and similar things in it did not impress me very much, but on the contrary made me incline somewhat towards atheism.

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The Gita is not an aphoristic work, it is a great religious poem.

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Every species, human and subhuman, has some distinguishing mark, so that you can tell a man from a beast, or a dog from a cow.

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Nothing will demoralize the nation so much as that we should learn to despise labour.

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My interest in India's freedom will cease if she adopts violent means, for their fruit will not be freedom but slavery in disguise.

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There can be no nonviolence offered by the militarily strong.

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No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties.

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Satan's successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips.

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Voluntary service of others demands the best of which one is capable, and must take precedence over service of self.

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I have discovered that man is superior to the system he propounds.

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Only this much I knew - that under ideal conditions, true education could be imparted only by the parents, and that then there should be the minimum of outside help.

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Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.

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God has blessed man with seed that has the highest potency and woman with a field richer than the richest earth to be found anywhere on his globe.

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When untouchability is rooted out, these distinctions will vanish and no one will consider himself superior to any other.

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Behind my non-cooperation there is always the keenest desire to cooperate on the slightest pretext even with the worst of opponents. To me, a very imperfect mortal, ever in need of God's grace, no one is beyond redemption.

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Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men.

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If I know Hinduism at all, it is essentially inclusive and ever-growing, ever-responsive. It gives the freest scope for imagination, speculation and reason.

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There is every reason for being cautious about founding new universities till India has digested Her newly acquired freedom.

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What the Sermon describes in a graphic manner, the Bhagavadgita reduces to a scientific formula.

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The art that is in the machine-made article, appeals only to the eye; the art in Khadi appeals first to the heart and then to the eye.

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An education which does not teach us to discriminate between good and bad, to assimilate the one and eschew the other, is a misnomer

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Every moment of my life I realize that God is putting me on my trial.

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Without an unreserved surrender to His grace, complete mastery over thoughts is impossible.

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