Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all.

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Man is not to drown himself in the well of the Shastras, but he is to dive in their broad ocean and bring out pearls.

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The golden rule to apply in all such cases is resolutely to refuse to have what millions cannot.

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In an atmosphere of ahimsa, one has no scope to put his ahimsa to the test. It can be tested only in the face of himsa.

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To ignore the Mussalman grievance as if it was not felt is to postpone Swaraj.

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I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice.

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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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Tulsidas's Ramayana is a notable book because it is informed with the spirit of purity, pity and piety.

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To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

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Life becomes livable only to the extent that death is treated as a friend, never as an enemy.

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The voice of the people may be said to be God's voice, the voice of the Panchayat.

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The sanyasa of the Gita will not tolerate complete cessation of activity.

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I well remember how the thoughts I had up to the time of my discharge from the jail on every occasion were modified immediately after discharge, and after getting first-hand information myself. Somehow or other the jail atmosphere does not allow you to have all the bearings in your mind.

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Let me say that God will send me the plan when He gives the word as He has done before now.

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For one man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole.

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A personal selfish prayer is bad whether made before an image or an unseen God.

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I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace.

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What, however, left a deep impression on me was the reading of the Ramayana before my father. During part of his illness my father was in Porbandar. There every evening he used to listen to the Ramayana.

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Swaraj is not meant for cowards, but for those who would mount smilingly to the gallows and refuse even to allow their eyes to be bandaged.

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A literal interpretation of the Gita lands one in a sea of contradictions.

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Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

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Sorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily borne, but not if they are imposed.

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Truth to me is infinitely dearer than the 'mahatmaship' which is purely a burden.

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I still somehow or other fancy that "my philosophy" represents the true meaning of the teaching of the Gita.

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So far as I can see, the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained for ages. There used to be so-called laws of war, which made it tolerable. Now we know the truth. War knows no law except that of might. The atomic bomb brought an empty victory but it resulted for the time being in destroying the soul of Japan. What has happened to the soul of the destroying nation is yet too early to see...

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