Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit alone when the time comes.
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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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A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature.
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Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth.
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Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals?
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I do not accept the orthodox teaching that Jesus was or is God incarnate in the accepted sense or that he was or is the only Son of God.
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The various religions are like different roads converging on the same point. What difference does it make if we follow different routes, provided we arrive at the same destination?
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All your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be in vain, if at the same time you do not build your character, and attain mastery over your thoughts and actions.
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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 opposition to the socialist and the other consists in attacking violence as a means of effecting any lasting reform.
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They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.
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Literary education must follow the education of the hand -the one gift that distinguishes man from beast.
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A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.
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Purity of life is the highest and truest art.
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Stoning prophets and erecting churches to their memory afterwards has been the way of the world through the ages. Today we worship Christ, but the Christ in the flesh we crucified.
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By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.
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It Is possible to live in peace.
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There is no such thing as slow freedom. Freedom is like a birth. Till we are fully free we are slaves. All birth takes place in a moment.
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The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that too, unconditional assistance, Co-operation which needs consideration is as a commercial contract and not friendship. Conditional co-operation is like adulterated cement which does not bind.
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If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek.
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For me to dominate the Congress in spite of these fundamental differences is almost a species of violence which I must refrain from.
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India's coming into her own will mean every nation doing likewise.
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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.