Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit.
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Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.
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If I were over full of pity for the cow, I should sacrifice my life to save her but not take my brother's.
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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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My doctrine means that I must identify myself with life, with everything that lives, that I must share the majesty of life in the presence of God. The sum-total of this life is God. .. Man is not at peace with himself until he has become like unto God. The endeavor to reach this state is the supreme, the only ambition worth having. And this is self-realisation. This self-realisation is the subject of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures... to be a real devotee is to realise oneself. Self-realisation is not something apart.
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Unless we learn the lesson of nonviolence fully, we shall never do away with the deadly feuds which have been the curse of the Frontier people.
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A bogus Congress register can never lead you to Swaraj any more than a paper boat can help you to sail across the Padma.
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Conversion without a clean heart is a denial of God and religion.
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Let not the spirit wander while the words of prayer run on out of our mouth.
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Civil disobedience and excitement and intoxication go ill together.
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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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Unless you go on discovering new applications of the law of nonviolence, you do not profit by it.
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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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My faith runs so very much faster than my reason that I can challenge the whole world and say, 'God is, was and ever shall be'.
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God has no religion.
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Our aim is not to do things by violence to opponents.
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If one does not practice nonviolence in one's own personal relations with others and hopes to use it in bigger affairs, one is vastly mistaken.
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I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
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If one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains.
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Means are ends in the making.
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To gain India's freedom, the capacity for suffering must go hand in hand with the capacity for ceaseless labour.
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To me, God is Truth and Love; God is ethics and morality: God is fearlessness. God is the source of Light and Life and yet He is above and beyond all these. God is conscience... He is a personal God to those who need His personal presence. He is embodied to those who need His touch. He is the purest essence. He simply is to those who have faith. He is all things to all men.
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Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.
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Many persons claiming different faiths make us one and an indivisible nation. All these have an equal claim to be the nationals of India.