Mahatma Gandhi - Self Quotes

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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

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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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To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny one's faith in man and God, even one's own self. It were better for one to drown oneself than live to declare such bankruptcy of faith.

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Nanda broke down every barrier and won his way to freedom not by brag, not by bluster, but by the purest form of self-suffering.

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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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At the centre of nonviolence is a force which is self-acting.

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The primary object of non-co-operation is nowhere stated to be paralysis of the Government. The primary object is self-purification.

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A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification.

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Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses or imperfections.

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This is no appeal made by a man who does not know his business. I have been practising with scientific precision non-violence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years. I have applied it in every walk of life, domestic, institutional, economic and political. I know of no single case in which it has failed. Where it has seemed sometimes to have failed, I have ascribed it to my imperfections. I claim no perfection for my self. But I do claim to be a passionate seeker after Truth, which is but another name for God. In the course of the search the discovery of non-violence came to me. Its spread is my life-mission. I have no interest in living except for the prosecution of that mission.

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The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.

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Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.

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When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from within.

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Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

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Remember that there is always a limit to self-indulgence but none to self-restraint, and let us daily progress in that direction.

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An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self sustained.

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Though violence is not lawful, when it is offered in self-defense or for the defense of the defenseless, it is an act of bravery far better than cowardly submission. The latter befits neither man nor woman. Under violence, there are many stages and varieties of bravery. Every man must judge this for himself. No other person can or has the right.

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The quest of Truth involves tapas-self-suffering-sometimes even unto death.

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Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa.

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Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled.

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Man does not live by bread alone. Many prefer self-respect to food.

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I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection.

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If hand-spinning is an effective method of making India self-supporting, it must be made part of the franchise.

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Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

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One hour spent in spinning should be an hour of self-development for the spinner.

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I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Eternal and become merely a lump of clay in the Potter's divine hands so that my service may become more certain because uninterrupted by the baser self in me.

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It is the function of God Rama to destroy evil, wherever it occurs and it is equally the function of God Rama to give to his devotees like Bibhishana a free charter of irrevocable self-government.

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Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.

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The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die.

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A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer.

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