Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Love based upon indulgence of animal passion, is at best a selfish affair, and likely to snap under the slightest strain.
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The mind may wander, but let not the senses wander with it. If the senses wander where the mind takes them, one is done for.
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A semi-starved nation can have neither religion nor art nor organization.
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Truth is my religion and ahimsa is the only way of its realization.
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The fight of satyagraha is for the strong in spirit, not the doubter or the timid. Satyagraha teaches us the art of living as well as dying.
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All have not the same capacity. I would allow a man of intellect to earn more, I would not cramp his talent.
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Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state.
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The more I reflect and look back on the past, the more vividly do I feel my limitations.
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Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself?
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Buddha renounced every worldly happiness because he wanted to share with the whole world his happiness which was to be had by men who sacrificed and suffered in the search for truth.
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What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.
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If untouchability lives, humanity must die.
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War knows no law except that of might.
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Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.
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Facts we would always place before our readers, whether they are palatable or not, and it is by placing them constantly before the public in their nakedness that the misunderstanding between the two communities in South Africa can be removed.
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I am a seasoned soldier of nonviolence, and I have evidence enough to sustain my faith.
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He who runs to the doctor, vaidya, or hakim for every little ailment, and swallows all kinds of vegetable and mineral drugs, not only curtails his life, but by becoming the slave of his body instead of remaining its master, loses self-control, and ceases to be a man.
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No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reason, will survive the coming reconstruction of society in which the values will have changed and character, not possession of wealth, title or birth, will be the test of merit.
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The state represents violence in a concentrated and organize form.
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Why worry one's head over a thing that is inevitable? Why die before one's death?
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I am not at all concerned with appearing to be consistent. In my pursuit after Truth I have discarded many ideas and learnt many new things.
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All religions are branches of the same mighty tree, but I must not change over from one branch to another for the sake of expediency.
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Ahimsa must express itself through acts of selfless service of the masses.
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The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.