Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Free, open love I have looked upon as dog's love. Secret love is, besides, cowardly.
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The man or the woman who can display the nonviolence of the brave can easily stand against as external invasion.
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In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
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All good thoughts and ideas mean nothing without action.
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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
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Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
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Hinduism has sinned in giving sanction to untouchability.
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The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
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There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
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God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.
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Khadi will be the sun of the whole industrial solar system.
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The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.
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Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience.
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Democracy and violence can ill go together.
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The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience.
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I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonour. But I believe that nonviolence is infinitely superior to violence, forgiveness is more manly than punishment.
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Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself.
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The concepts of truth may differ. But all admit and respect truth. That truth I call God. For sometime I was saying, "God is Truth," but that did not satisfy me. So now I say, "Truth is God."
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My life is my message.
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I hold no man to be indispensable for the welfare of the country.
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I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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Though God may be Love, God is Truth above all.