Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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Ahimsa must express itself through acts of selfless service of the masses.

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We are all very imperfect and weak things, and if we are to destroy all whose ways we do not like, there will be not a man left alive.

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My religion says that only he who is prepared to suffer can pray to God.

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Cow protection to me is one of the most wonderful phenomena in the human evolution.

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Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain as far as is humanly possible from violence.

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An institution that suffers from a plethora of leaders is surely in a bad way.

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A samagra gramsevak must know everybody living in the village and render them such service as he possibly can.

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I am the only one, whom you may find it hard to get rid of, for I have always counted myself as a woman.

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I hold too that whatever may be true of other countries, a bloody revolution will not succeed in India.

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A man like me cannot but believe that this earthquake is a divine chastisement sent by God for our sins.

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Personally I crave not for 'independence', which I do not understand, but I long for freedom from the English yoke.

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Man is born of woman, he is flesh of her flesh and bone of her bone.

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I claim to represent all the cultures, for my religion, whatever it may be called, demands the fulfillment of all the cultures.

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Does not the history of the world show that there would have been no romance in life if there had been no risks?

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Economics that hurt the moral well-being of an individual or a nation are immoral and, therefore, sinful.

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If you will express the requisite purity of character in action, you cannot do it better than through the spinning wheel.

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Old as I am in age, I have no feeling that I have ceased to grow inwardly or that my growth will stop at the dissolution of the flesh. What I am concerned with is my readiness to obey the call of Truth, my God, from moment to moment, no matter how inconsistent it may appear. My commitment is to Truth, not to consistency.

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To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act.

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It is no easy task to do away with a thing that is established. We, therefore, say that the non-beginning of a thing is supreme wisdom.

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Crime and vice generally require darkness for prowling. They disappear when light plays upon them.

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The man who fears man falls from the estate of man. Fear God alone.

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Satyagraha is a relentless search for truth and a determination to search truth.

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The panoplied warrior of truth and nonviolence is ever and incessantly active.

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Robust faith in oneself and brave trust of the opponent, so called or real, is the best safeguard.

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Unless you go on discovering new applications of the law of nonviolence, you do not profit by it.

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The restoration of free speech, free association and free press is almost the whole Swaraj.

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To ignore the Mussalman grievance as if it was not felt is to postpone Swaraj.

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My Hinduism teaches me to respect all religions. In this lies the secret of Ramarajya.

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Swaraj would be real Swaraj only when there would be no occasion for safeguarding any rights.

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Surely Islam has nothing to fear from criticism even if it be unreasonable.

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