Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.

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If the village worker is not a decent man or woman, conducting a decent home, he or she had better not aspire after the high privilege and honour of becoming a village worker.

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The wise are unaffected either by death or life. These are but faces of the same coin.

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The external is in no way the essence of religion, but the external often proclaims the internal.

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Personally I like to believe that all become honest, the millennium is round the corner!

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Man is the maker of his own destiny, and I therefore ask you to become makers of your own destiny.

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If any Englishman dedicated his life to securing the freedom of India, resisting tyranny and serving the land, I should welcome that Englishman as an Indian.

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My Gita tells me that evil can never result from a good action.

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One hour spent in spinning should be an hour of self-development for the spinner.

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Nothing in the Shastras, which is capable of being reasoned, can stand if it is in conflict with reason.

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Do not flatter yourselves with the belief that a mere recital of that celebrated verse in St. John makes a man a Christian.

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No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.

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If everyone will try to understand the core of his own religion and adhere to it, and will not allow false teachers to dictate to him, there will be no room left for quarrelling.

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Desirelessness or renunciation does not come for the mere talking about it.

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There is no 'as far as possible' on the question of untouchability. If it is to go, it must go in its entirety from the temples as from everywhere else.

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What crimes, for which we condemn the Government as satanic, have not we been guilty of towards our own untouchable brethren?

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The greatest menace to the world today is the growing, exploiting, irresponsible imperialism.

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A vow imparts stability, ballast and firmness to one's character.

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The sky may be overcast today with clouds, but a fervent prayer to God is enough to dispel them.

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Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for.

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The fight of satyagraha is for the strong in spirit, not the doubter or the timid. Satyagraha teaches us the art of living as well as dying.

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Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice.

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When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.

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The purification required is not of untouchables but of the so-called superior castes.

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A devotee of Rama may be said to be the same as the steadfast one (sthitaprajnya) of the Gita.

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The fear of the judge within is more terrible than that of the one without.

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