Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest.
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The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.
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Unless you go on discovering new applications of the law of nonviolence, you do not profit by it.
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The story of Ramakrishna is a story of religion in practice. His life enables us to see God face to face.... In this age of skepticism Ramakrishna presents an example of a bright and living faith which gives solace to thousands of men and women who would otherwise have remained without spiritual light.
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A true and nonviolent combination of labour would act like a magnet attracting to it all the needed capital.
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I have mentally become a woman in order to steal into her heart.
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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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A born democrat is a born disciplinarian.
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Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.
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Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. Violence is any day preferable to impotence. There is hope for a violent man to become non-violent. There is no such hope for the impotent.
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I am a passionate seeker after truth which is but another name for God.
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A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer.
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Some form of common worship and a common place of worship appear to be a human necessity.
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That which looks for mercy from an opponent is not non-violence.
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Marriage must cease to be a matter of arrangement made by parents for money.
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I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them, and while I hold by my own religion, I should hold other religions as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we were Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu; but our innermost prayer should be that a Hindu should become a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, and a Christian a better Christian.
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Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.
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If the village worker is not a decent man or woman, conducting a decent home, he or she had better not aspire after the high privilege and honour of becoming a village worker.
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Democracy can only represent the average if not less than the average.
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Faith is the function of the heart.
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If we are to create peace in our world, we must begin with our children.
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Let your thoughts be positive for they will become your words. Let your words be positive for they will become your actions. Let your actions be positive for they will become your values. Let your values be positive for they will become your destiny.
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I travel third-class because there is no fouth-class.