Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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It is a crime and a sin to regard a person as untouchable because he is born in a particular community.

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It is poor faith that needs fair weather for standing firm. That alone is true faith that stands the foulest weather.

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The greatest help you can give me is to banish fear from your hearts.

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Mother cow is in many ways better than the mother who gave us birth.

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Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.

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If Swaraj is to be had by peaceful methods, it will only be attained by attention to every little detail of national life.

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Non-co-operation enables us to show that in everything that matters we can be independent of the Government.

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All the other industries will receive warmth and sustenance from khadi industry.

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The right to err, which means the freedom to try experiments, is the universal condition of all progress.

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A life without vows is like a ship without an anchor or like an edifice that is built on sand instead of a solid rock.

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A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer.

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As a rule, the mind, residing in a body that has become weakened by pampering, is also weak, and where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.

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I have in my life never been guilty of saying things I did not mean - my nature is to go straight to the heart and if often I fail in doing so for the time being, I know that Truth ultimately makes itself heard and felt, as it has often done in my experience.

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My non-violence bids me dedicate myself to the service of the minorities.

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My Hindu instinct tells me that all religions are more or less true.

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For the courage of self-sacrifice, woman is any time superior to man, as I believe man is to woman for the courage of the brute.

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Compulsory obedience to a master is a state of slavery, willing obedience to one's father is the glory of son ship.

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A democratic organization has to dare to do the right at all costs.

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I am conscious of my own limitations. That consciousness is my only strength.

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It is difficult for me to regard anyone who obeys no moral principle in his conduct to be a religious man.

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Women are special custodians of all that is pure and religious in life.

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Harshness is conquered by gentleness, hatred by love, lethargy by zeal and darkness by light.

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The best way of losing a cause is to abuse your opponent and to trade upon his weakness.

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A mother would never by choice sleep in a wet bed but she would gladly do so in order to spare the dry bed for her child.

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Non-co-operation is a movement intended to invite Englishmen to co-operate with us on honourable terms or retire from our land.

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Exploitation and domination of one nation over another can have no place in a world striving to put an end to all war.

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My fast is, among other things, meant to qualify me for achieving that equal and selfless love.

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The Britisher is the top dog and the Indian the underdog in his own country.

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The principle of ahimsa is hurt by every evil thought, by undue haste, by lying, by hatred, by wishing ill to anybody.

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If the poet spun for half an hour daily, his poetry would gain in richness.

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