Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Politics bereft of religion is absolute dirt, ever to be shunned.
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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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Selfishness is blind.
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A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
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Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
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I know of no system other than Hinduism under which a class has been set apart from generation to generation for the exclusive pursuit of divine knowledge and consigned to voluntary poverty.
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The law of love knows no bounds of space or time.
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Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
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Good government is no substitute for self-government.
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Every Hindu boy and girl should possess sound Sanskrit learning.
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Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.
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There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.
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Woman in the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacities. She has the right to participate in the minutest details in the activities of man, and she has equal right to liberty of freedom and liberty with him.
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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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Civility does not ...mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do the opponent good.
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For a bowl of water give a goodly meal; For a kindly greeting bow thou down with zeal; For a simple penny pay thou back with gold; If thy life be rescued, life do not withhold. Thus the words and actions of the wise regard; Every little service tenfold they reward. But the truly noble know all men as one, And return with gladness good for evil done.
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I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
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I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.
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If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.
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Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
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I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest number. It means in its nakedness that in order to achieve the supposed good of 51 per cent the interests of 49 per cent may be, or rather, should be sacrificed. It is a heartless doctrine and has done harm to humanity.
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It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
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Peace is the state where love abides and seeks to share itself.