Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
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I considered becoming a Christian... until I met one.
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Peace is its own reward.
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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
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We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.
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There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
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Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself.
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The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority.
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If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
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Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
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Nothing is impossible for pure love.
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Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
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The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
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Self-respect knows no considerations.
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Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
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Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
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Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. This is God's attribute alone. Relative truth is all we know. Therefore, we can only follow the truth as we see it. Such pursuit of truth cannot lead anyone astray.
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Domestic matters are trifles for us. But they occupy the principal part of my life. They teach me to know my limitations.
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I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.
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Politics bereft of religion is absolute dirt, ever to be shunned.
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I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience which is God.
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Where there is love there is life.