Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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My nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving the dear ones unprotected.

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The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies.

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The aim of university education should be to turn out true servants of the people who will live and die for the country's freedom.

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For me, humanitarian service, or rather service of all that lives, is religion. And I draw no distinction between such religion and politics.

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If we are true servants of the masses, we would take pride in spinning for their sake.

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The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.

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The Charkha is the symbol of sacrifice, and sacrifice is essential for the establishment of the image of the deity.

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God is omnipresent; even a pebble in the Narmada can represent Him and serve as an object of worship.

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Even swadeshi, like any other good thing, can be ridden to death if it is made a fetish.

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A religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb.

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Men of stainless character and self purification will easily inspire confidence and automatically purify the atmosphere around them.

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Cow-protection can only be secured by cultivating universal friendliness, i.e. ahimsa.

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The most distinctive and largest contribution of Hinduism to India's culture is the doctrine of ahimsa.

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Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society.

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The Swaraj of my dream recognizes no race or religious distinctions.

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