Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I think it is wrong to expect certainties in this world, where all else but God that is Truth is an uncertainty. All that appears and happens about and around us is uncertain, transient. But there is a Supreme Being hidden therein as a Certainty, and one would be blessed if one could catch a glimpse of that Certainty and hitch one's waggon to it. The quest for that Truth is the summum bonum of life.
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In the name of religion, we force widowhood upon our three lakh girl-widows who could not understand the import of the marriage ceremony.
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Ravana was a rakshasa but this rakshasi of untouchability is even more terrible than Ravana.
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The most violent weapon on earth is the table fork.
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If I am true to myself, if I am true to mankind, if I am true to humanity, I must understand all the faults that human flesh is heir to.
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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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Belief in non–violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love.
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Our aim is not to do things by violence to opponents.
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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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Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.
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It is the faith and perseverance and single-mindedness with which Hitler has perfected his weapons of destruction that commands my admiration.
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The more I reflect and look back on the past, the more vividly do I feel my limitations.
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My faith in truth and nonviolence is ever growing, and as I am ever trying to follow them in my life, I too am growing every moment.
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Ahimsa means infinite love, which again means infinite capacity for suffering.
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Democracy disciplined and enlightened is the finest thing in the world. A democracy prejudiced, ignorant, superstitious, will land itself in chaos and may be self-destroyed.
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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.
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Cow protection to me is one of the most wonderful phenomena in the human evolution.
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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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There can be in the eyes of God no distinction between man and man, even as there is no distinction between animal and animal.
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My varnashram dharma teaches me that there must be some significance in the fact of my being born in India instead of in Europe.
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When there is no desire for fruit, there is also no temptation for untruth or himsa.
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The field of research in the doctrine of civil resistance is necessarily limited, as the occasions for civil resistance in a man's life must not be frequent.
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With God as witness, I want to proclaim this truth, that the way of violence cannot bring Swaraj, it can only lead to disaster.
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To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.