Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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Harijan service is a duty the caste Hindus owe to themselves.

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A rabbit that runs away from the bull-terrier is not particularly non-violent.

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Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children.

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Imperialism is a negation of God. It does ungodly acts in the name of God.

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Prayer needs no speech. It is in itself independent of any sensuous effort. But it must be combined with the utmost humility.

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I claim to be no more than an average man with below average capabilities.

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A soldier fights with an irresistible strength when he has blown up his bridges and burnt his boats. Even so, it is with a soldier of ahimsa.

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May not men earn their bread by intellectual labor? No, the needs of the body must be supplied by the body.

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I could not be leading a religious life unless I identified myself with the whole of mankind, and that I could not do unless I took part in politics.

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No country can become a nation by producing a race of imitators.

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Non-co-operators will make a serious mistake if they seek to convert people to their creed by violence.

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Service is not possible unless it is rooted in love orahimsa.

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Truth and untruth often co-exist; good and evil often are found together

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Mankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence.

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There is already enough superstition in our country. No effort should be spared to resist further addition in the shape of Gandhi worship.

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To say that a single human being, because of his birth, becomes an untouchable, unapproachable or invisible is to deny God.

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My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty.

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Since one Satan is one too many for me, I would not multiply him.

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It is no non-violence if we merely love those that love us. It is non-violence only when we love those that hate us.

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The satyagrahi general has to obey his inner voice, for over and above the situation outside he examines himself constantly and listens to the dictates of the inner self.

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That I want to destroy British imperialism is another matter, but I want to do so by converting those who are associated with it.

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As a splendid palace deserted by its inmates looks like a ruin, so does a man without character, all his material belongings notwithstanding.

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I would like to assure those who would serve Daridranarayana that there is music, art, economy and joy in the spinning wheel.

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I know of no system other than Hinduism under which a class has been set apart from generation to generation for the exclusive pursuit of divine knowledge and consigned to voluntary poverty.

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Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.

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In satyagraha, a courted imprisonment carries its own praise.

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Ahimsa is one of the world's great principles, which no power on earth can wipe out.

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I call God long-suffering and patient precisely because He permits evil in the world. I know that He has no evil in Him and yet if there is evil, He is the author of it and yet untouched by it.

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Who is there in the world who can insult the God in the image?

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When the wheel was accepted as part of the national flag, it was surely implied that the spinning wheel would hum in every household.

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