Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.
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In a society based on nonviolence, the smallest nation will feel as tall as the tallest.
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We must be ever courteous and patient with those who do not see eye to eye with us. We must resolutely refuse to consider our opponents as enemies.
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Non-cooperation with tyrants is a duty.
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Buddha never rejected Hinduism, but he broadened its base. He gave it a new life and a new interpretation.
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Why worry one's head over a thing that is inevitable? Why die before one's death?
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Of all the myriads of God, Daridranarayana is the most sacred inasmuch as it represents the untold millions of the poor people as distinguished from the few rich people.
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A mother would never by choice sleep in a wet bed but she would gladly do so in order to spare the dry bed for her child.
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God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist.
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It is my unshakable belief that India's destiny is to deliver the message of nonviolence to mankind.
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I have felt that the Gita teaches us that what cannot be followed in day-to-day practice cannot be called religion.
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The Allah of Islam is the same as the God of Christians and the Ishwar of Hindus.
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The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.
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It is easier to build a boy than to mend a man.
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The way to truth lies through ahimsa (nonviolence).
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When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.
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Cowardice is not a sign of belief in God.
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Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.
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Who can deny that much that passes for science and art today destroys the soul instead of uplifting it and instead of evoking the best in us, panders to our basest passions?
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As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.
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Khadi work without the mastery of the science of khadi will be love's labour lost in terms of Swaraj.
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Even if the whole of India, ranged on one side, were to declare that Hindu-Muslim unity is impossible, I will declare that it is perfectly possible.
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Prayer has not been a part of my life in the sense that truth has been.
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Nonviolent action means mobilization of world opinion in our favour.