Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The willing sacrifice of the innocents is the most powerful retort to insolent tyranny that has yet to be conceived by God or man.
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Full effort is full victory.
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Purity of life is the highest and truest art.
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My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.
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My trust is solely in God. And I trust men only because I trust God. If I had no God to rely upon, I should be like Timon, a hater of my species.
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My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest.
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Civil disobedience and excitement and intoxication go ill together.
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Journalism should never be prostituted for selfish ends or for the sake of merely earning a livelihood or, worse still, for amassing money.
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Cow protection to me is one of the most wonderful phenomena in the human evolution.
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I am conscious of my own limitations. That consciousness is my only strength.
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I believe that there is no prayer without fasting, and there is no real fast without prayer.
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Marriage must cease to be a matter of arrangement made by parents for money.
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The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet.
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First they ignore you, then they denounce you, and then they say that they knew what you were saying all the time.
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Conversion without a clean heart is a denial of God and religion.
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We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings.
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The lives of Zoroaster, Jesus and Mohammed, as I have understood them, have illumined many a passage in the Gita.
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It Is possible to live in peace.
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We may attack systems. We must not attack men.
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The only force at the disposal of democracy is that of public opinion.
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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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The purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself. We cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that lives. The sum-total of that life is God.
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I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death rather than kill him.
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Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest.