Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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I shall never know God if I do not wrestle with and against evil, even at the cost of life itself.

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The Koran says that there can be no heaven for one who sheds the blood of an innocent neighbour.

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Economic equality of my conception does not mean that every one will literally have the same amount.

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The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa.

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There is no yajna (sacrifice) greater than spinning calculated to bring peace to the troubled spirit, to soothe the distracted student's mind, to spiritualize his life.

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My soul refuses to be satisfied so long as it is a helpless witness of a single wrong or a single misery.

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Unrestricted individualism is the law of the beast of the jungle.

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Illness or disease is only Nature's warning that filth has accumulated in some portion or other of the body; and it would surely be the part of wisdom to allow Nature to remove the filth, instead of covering it up with the help of medicines.

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[It] is impossible for us to establish a living vital connection with the masses unless we will work for them, through them and in their midst, not as their patrons but as their servants.

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By using violence to subjugate one another we are using violence against our own souls.

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The truth is that God is the force. He is the essence of life. He is pure and undefiled consciousness. He is eternal.

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Yajna having come to us with our birth, we are debtors all our lives, and thus for ever bound to serve the universe.

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Labour, because it chose to remain unintelligent, either became subservient, or insolently believed in damaging the capitalists' goods and machinery or even in killing the capitalists.

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If we will take care of today, God will take care of the morrow.

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I retain the opinion that council entry is inconsistent with non-co-operation as I conceive it.

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Satan mostly employs comparatively moral instruments and the language of ethics to give his aims an air of respectability.

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The world is changing every moment, and is therefore unreal. It has non permanent existence.

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Prayer can come in only when fasting has done its work. It can make fasting easy and bearable.

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Swaraj will favour Hinduism no more than Islam, nor Islam more than Hinduism.

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Proved right should be capable of being vindicated by right means as against the rude i.e. sanguinary means. Man may and should shed his own blood for establishing what he considers to be his right. He may not shed the blood of his opponent who disputes his 'right'.

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Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power.

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I isolate this non-co-operation from Sinn Feinism, for it is so conceived as to be incapable of being offered side by side with violence.

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I believe in advaita, I believe in the essential unity of man and for that matter of all that lives.

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I must refuse to believe that the Germans contemplate with equanimity the evacuation of cities like London for fear of destruction to be wrought by man's inhuman ingenuity.

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Non-violence... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy. I did not move a muscle when I first heard that the atom bomb had wiped out Hiroshima. On the contrary, I said to myself, Unless now the world adopts non-violence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind.

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God alone is the judge of true greatness because He knows men's hearts.

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Before [Hindus and Moslems] dare think of freedom, they must be brave enough to love one another, to tolerate one another's religion, even prejudices and superstitions, and to trust one another. This requires faith in oneself.

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Khadi to me is the symbol of unity of Indian humanity, of its economic freedom and equality and, therefore, ultimately, in the poetic expression of Jawaharlal Nehru, 'the livery of India's freedom'.

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No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing.

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If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be

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