Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated?
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What distinguishes man from the brute is his conscious striving to realise the spirit within.
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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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God tries his votaries through and through but never beyond endurance. He gives them strength enough to go through the ordeal he prescribes for them.
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I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.
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Outward Peace is useless without inner Peace.
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Love has more force than a besieging army.
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If it is by force that we wish to achieve Swaraj, let us drop nonviolence and offer such violence as we may.
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It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.
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The ideal is a synthesis of the different cultures that have come to stay in India, that have influenced Indian life, and that, in their turn, have themselves been influenced by the spirit of the soil.
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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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Healthy and nourishing food was the only alpha and omega of rural economy.
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Jesus never uttered a loftier or a grander truth than when he said that wisdom cometh out of the mouths of babes.
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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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In a society based on nonviolence, the smallest nation will feel as tall as the tallest.
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It is my unshakable belief that India's destiny is to deliver the message of nonviolence to mankind.
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One who hooks his fortune to ahimsa, the law of love, daily lessens the circle of destruction and to that extent promotes life and love.
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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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Throughout the history of mankind there have been murderers and tyrants; and while it may seem momentarily that they have the upper hand, they have always fallen. Always.
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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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We must be ever courteous and patient with those who do not see eye to eye with us. We must resolutely refuse to consider our opponents as enemies.
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Conversion without a clean heart is a denial of God and religion.
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It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world.
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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.