Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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When nonviolence is accepted as the law of life, it must pervade the whole being and not be applied to isolated acts.

Mahatma Gandhi
Buddha renounced every worldly happiness because he wanted to share with the whole world his happiness which was to be had by men who sacrificed and suffered in the search for truth.

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So long as untouchability disfigures Hinduism, so long do I hold the attainment of Swaraj to be an utter impossibility.

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The votaries of nonviolence cannot harbour violence even in thought, let alone the question of doing it.

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Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses.

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A smattering of English is worse than useless; it is an unnecessary tax on our women.

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It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words. God did not bear the cross only two thousand years ago. He bears it today, and he dies and is resurrected from day to day. It would be a poor comfort to the world if it had to depend on a historical God who died two thousand years ago. Do not, then, preach the God of history, but show him as he lives today through you.

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I have had the hardihood to say that Swaraj could not be granted even by God.

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The word 'defeat' is not to be found in my dictionary, and everyone who is selected as a recruit in my army may be certain that there is no defeat for a satyagrahi.

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May God give power to every word of mine. In his name I began to write this, and in His name I close it. May your statesman have the wisdom and courage to respond to my appeal. I am telling His Excellency the Viceroy that my services are at the disposal of His Majesty's Government, should they consider them of any practical use in advancing the object of my appeal.

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Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

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Just as there are signs by which you can recognize violence with the naked eye, so is the spinning wheel to me a decisive sign of nonviolence.

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It is wonderful, if we chose the right diet, what an extraordinarily small quantity would suffice.

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It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

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There are chords in every human heart. If we only knew how to strike the right chord, we would bring out the music.

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We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

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No stone should be left unturned to bring home to the family members that untouchability is a sin and a blot on Hinduism.

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It is a heavy downpour of rain which drenches the soil to fullness; likewise only a profuse shower of love can overcome hatred.

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Truth is the first thing to be sought for, and Beauty and Goodness will then be added unto you.

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The English have taught us that we were not one nation before and that it will reaquire centuries before we become one nation. This is without foundation. We were one nation before they came to India. One thought inspired us. Our mode of life was the same. It was because we were one nation that they were able to establish one kingdom.

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To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.

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