Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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Khaddar is an activity that can absorb all the time of all available men and women and grown-up children, if they have faith.

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Genuine laughter is true eloquence and more effective than speech

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Khadi mentality means decentralization of the production and distribution of the necessaries of life.

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There are subjects where reason cannot take us far and we have to accept things on faith. Faith then does not contradict reason but transcends it. Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason.

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The fragrance of religious and spiritual life is much finer and subtler than that of the rose.

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A clear victory of satyagraha is impossible so long as there is ill will.

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I felt that God could be realized only through service. And service for me was the service of India, because it came to me without my seeking, because I had an aptitude for it.

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I know that I have still before me a difficult path to traverse. I must reduce myself to zero. So long as a man does not of his own free will put himself last among his fellow creatures, there is no salvation for him. Ahimsa is the farthest limit of humility.

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Renunciation is the central sun, round which devotion, knowledge and the rest revolve like planets.

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The snakes have their place in the agricultural economy of the village, but our villagers do not seem realize it.

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He who runs to the doctor, vaidya, or hakim for every little ailment, and swallows all kinds of vegetable and mineral drugs, not only curtails his life, but by becoming the slave of his body instead of remaining its master, loses self-control, and ceases to be a man.

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Spiritual instruments suffer in their potency when their use is taught through non-spiritual messages which are self-propagating.

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I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning of learning.

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I suffer snakes to be killed in the ashram when it is impossible to catch them and put them out of harm's way.

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Mortification of the flesh has been held all the world over as a condition of spiritual progress.

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Man is not at peace with himself till he has become like unto God.

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The West has yet to discover anything so hygienic as the Indian toothstick.

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The way of peace is the way of truth. Truthfulness is even more important than peacefulness.

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If light can come out of darkness, then alone can love emerge from hatred.

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High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship.

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Hinduism would not have been much of a religion if Rama had not steeled his heart against every temptation.

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Hinduism loses its right to make a universal appeal if it closes its temples to Harijans.

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If hand-spinning is an effective method of making India self-supporting, it must be made part of the franchise.

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Swaraj does not depend on jail going. If it did, there are thousands of prisoners in jail today. It depends on everyone doing his or her own task.

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You will not pit one word of God against another word of God.

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Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.

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I want for India complete independence in the full English sense of that English term.

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Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas the former ruins the soul and there is no cure for it.

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What is imprisonment to the man who is fearless of death itself?

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In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.

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