Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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No police officer could compel a satyagrahi to give evidence against a person who has confessed to him. A satyagrahi would never be guilty of a betrayal of trust.

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If it is possible for the human tongue to give the fullest description of God, I have come to the conclusion that God is Truth.

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Its unadulterated belief in the oneness of God and a practical application of the truth of the brotherhood of man for those who are nominally within its fold are two distinctive contributions of Islam.

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Retreat itself is often a plan of resistance and may be a precursor of great bravery and sacrifice. Every retreat is not cowardice which implies fear to die.

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God of Truth and Justice can never create distinctions of high and low among His own children.

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It is for you and me to show that no vice is inherent in man.

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My religion teaches me that a promise once made or a vow once taken for a worthy object may not be broken.

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To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty.

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The human body is meant solely for service, never for indulgence.

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Far better than emasculation would be the bravery of those who use physical force. Far better than cowardice would be meeting one's death fighting.

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Temples are like spiritual hospitals, and the sinful, who are spiritually diseased, have the first right to be ministered to by them.

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If God is not a personal being for me like my earthly father, He is infinitely more.

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Freedom of a nation cannot be won by solitary acts of heroism though they may be of the true type, never by heroism so called.

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A nonviolent system of government is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists.

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When freedom is in jeopardy, non-co-operation may be a duty and prison may be a palace.

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In the code of the satyagrahi, there is no such thing as surrender to brute force.

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There is only one God for us all, whether we find him through the Koran, the Zend-Avesta, The Tolmud, or the Gita.

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A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature.

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Swaraj of a people means the sum total of the Swaraj (self-rule) of individuals.

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Boycott brought about anyhow of British cloth cannot yield the same results as such boycott brought about by hand-spinning and khaddar.

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A successful bloody revolution can only mean further misery for the masses.

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I well remember how the thoughts I had up to the time of my discharge from the jail on every occasion were modified immediately after discharge, and after getting first-hand information myself. Somehow or other the jail atmosphere does not allow you to have all the bearings in your mind.

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Even as satyagraha is a weapon unique of its kind and not one of the ordinary weapons used by people, so is Khadi, a unique article of commerce which will not, cannot, succeed on terms common to other articles.

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The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities.

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The canker has so eaten into the society that in many cases the only meaning of education is a knowledge of English.

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The spinning wheel and the spinning wheel alone will solve, if anything will solve, the problem of the deepening poverty of India.

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One may detest the wickedness of a brother without hating him.

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However virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India.

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Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled.

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The British are weak in numbers, we are weak in spite of our numbers.

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