Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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England has got successful competitors in America, Japan, France, Germany. It has competitors in the handful of mills in India, and as there has been an awakening in India, even so there will be an awakening in South Africa with its vastly richer resources — natural, mineral and human. The mighty English look quite pigmies before the mighty races of Africa. They are noble savages after all, you will say. They are certainly noble, but no savages and in the course of a few years the Western nations may cease to find in Africa a dumping ground for their wares.

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The spinning wheel means national consciousness and a contribution by every individual to a definite constructive national work.

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Virtue lies in being absorbed in one's prayers in the presence of din and noise.

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Every Hindu boy and girl should possess sound Sanskrit learning.

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Spiritually, compulsory disarmament has made us unmanly, and the presence of an alien army of occupation, employed with deadly effect to crush in us the spirit of resistance, has made us think we cannot look after ourselves or put up a defense against foreign aggression, or even defend our homes and families...

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I want co-operation between nations for the salvaging of civilization, but co-operation presupposes free nations worthy of co-operation.

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Man in the flesh is essentially imperfect. He may be described as being made in the image of God but is far from being God.

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I had learnt at the onset not to carry on public work with borrowed money.

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

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I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

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In nature there is a fundamental unity running through all the diversity we see about us. Religions are given to mankind so as to accelerate the process of realisation of fundamental unity.

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Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment.

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Had we adopted non-violence as the weapon of the strong, because we realised that it was more effective than any other weapon, in fact the mightiest force in the world, we would have made use of its full potency and not have discarded it as soon as the fight against the British was over or we were in a position to wield conventional weapons. But as I have already said, we adopted it out of our helplessness. If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British.

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We notice that the mind is a restless bird; the more it gets the more it wants, and still remains unsatisfied. The more we indulge our passions the more unbridled they become. Our ancestors, therefore, set a limit to our indulgences. They saw that happiness was largely a mental condition. A man is not necessarily happy because he is rich, or unhappy because he is poor.... Millions will always remain poor.

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I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage.

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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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It may be long before the law of love will be recognised in international affairs. The machineries of government stand between and hide the hearts of one people from those of another.

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An India free from exploitation from within and without must prosper with astonishing rapidity.

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There can be no friendship between cowards, or cowards and brave men.

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Nowhere in the world would you find such skeletons of cows and bullocks as you do in our cow-worshipping India.

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