Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Freedom of the press is a precious privilege that no country can forego.
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In a society based on nonviolence, the smallest nation will feel as tall as the tallest.
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Truth and nonviolence are as old as the hills.
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Priorities lie in your actions.
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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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Doubt is invariably the result of want or weakness of faith.
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Spiritual force is like any other force at the service of man.
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Perfection is the exclusive attribute of God, and it is indescribable, untranslatable. I do believe that it is possible for human beings to become perfect, even as God is perfect. It is necessary for all of us to aspire after that perfection but when that blessed state is attained, it become indescribable, indefinable.
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Blind adoration, in the age of action, is perfectly valueless, is often embarrassing and, equally, often painful.
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There must be power in the word of a satyagraha general, not the power that the possession of limitless arms gives, but the power that purifies life which strict vigilance and a ceaseless application produce.
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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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Civil disobedience and excitement and intoxication go ill together.
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Adversity is the mother of progress.
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It is easier to build a boy than to mend a man.
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Let not the spirit wander while the words of prayer run on out of our mouth.
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Religion taught us to return good for evil.
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Ahimsa in theory no one knows. It is as indefinable as God.
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India has an unbroken tradition of nonviolence from times immemorial.
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Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.
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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.