Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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One has to speak out and stand up for one's convictions. Inaction at a time of conflagration is inexcusable.

Mahatma Gandhi
Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realize what a tremendous advantage she has over man. As Tolstoy used to say, they are laboring under the hypnotic influence of man. If they would realize the strength of non-violence they would not consent to be called the weaker sex.

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For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of Englishmen.

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There is as much need for a change of heart among the Hindus and Mussalmans as there is among the British, before a proper settlement is arrived at.

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Now the man on duty used to be changed from time to time. Once one of these men, without giving me the slightest warning, without even asking me to leave the footpath, pushed and kicked me into the street. I was dismayed. Before I could question him as to his behaviour, Mr Coates, who happened to be passing the spot on horseback, hailed me and said:

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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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I regard Duryodhana and his party as the baser impulses in man, and Arjuna and his party as the higher impulses.

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Faith is put to the test when the situation is most difficult.

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Violence is bound sooner or later to exhaust itself but peace cannot issue out of such exhaustion.

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I believe that religious education must be the sole concern of religious associations.

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Means to be means must always be within our reach, and so ahimsa is our supreme duty.

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Swadeshi is the only doctrine consistent with the law of humanity and love.

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I do not believe that the spiritual law works on a field of its own. On the contrary, it expresses itself only through the ordinary activities of life. It thus affects the economic, the social and the political fields.

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If fighting for the legislatures meant a sacrifice of truth and nonviolence, democracy would not be worth a moment's purchase.

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Every expression of truth has in it the seeds of propagation, even as the sun cannot hide its light.

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Yajna is duty to be performed, or service to be rendered, all twenty-four hours of the day.

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Ahimsa calls for the strength and courage to suffer without retaliation, to receive blows without returning any.

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Satyagraha is a process of educating public opinion, such that it covers all the elements of the society and in the end makes itself irresistible.

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Mass civil disobedience was for the attainment of independence.

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I call myself a labourer because I take pride in calling myself a spinner, weaver, farmer and scavenger.

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For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence.

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Like the watch, the heart needs the winding of purity, or the Dweller ceases to speak.

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I must rebel against the idea that millions of Indians, who were Hindus, the other day, changed their nationality on adopting Islam as their religion.

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A worker's capital is inexhaustible, incapable of being stolen, and bound to pay him a generous dividend all the time.

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Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.

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All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error.

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God never made man that he may consider another man as untouchable.

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If Britain were honest, which I dispute, she would then embrace all nations on terms of equality.

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Mass illiteracy is India's sin and shame and must be liquidated.

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Unless our hands go hand in hand with our heads, we will be able to do nothing whatsoever.

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