Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I believe that religious education must be the sole concern of religious associations.
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The need of the moment is not one religion, but mutual respect and tolerance of the devotees of the different religions.
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And everyone who wills can hear the Voice. It is within every one. But like everything else it requires previous and definite preparation.
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A perfect Muslim is he from whose tongue and hands mankind is safe.
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Ahimsa is the strongest force known.
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All education in a country has got to be demonstrably in promotion of the progress of the country in which it is given.
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Religion taught us to return good for evil.
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By spiritual training I mean education of the heart.
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Man often becomes what he believes himself to be.
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War knows no law except that of might.
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Many could forgo heavy meals, a full wardrobe, a fine house, etcetera. It is the ego they cannot forgo.
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No perfect democracy is possible without perfect nonviolence at the back of it.
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Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.
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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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Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain as far as is humanly possible from violence.
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"Be the change you want to see in the world"...and, if you can't be that change, then either get out of the way of the person who wants to be that change or support the individual with your financial resources.
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To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.
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The sum of all that lives is God.
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Sympathy is what you have for someone after they die, pity you have for someone when they don't have a date to the biggest dance of the year. Empathy is what I do to you when you judge me. Envy is having pity on yourself. Can you discern the rest for yourself?
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It is not given to man to know the whole Truth. His duty lies in living up to the truth as he sees it, and in doing so, to resort to the purest means, i.e., to non-violence. God alone knows absolute truth. Therefore, I have often said, Truth is God. It follows that man, a finite being, cannot know absolute truth. Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. This is God's attribute alone. Relative truth is all we know. Therefore, we can only follow the truth as we see it. Such pursuit of truth cannot lead anyone astray.
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Forgive and forget, but never forget to forgive. You may find a happier heart is the key to a happier life.
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It is an ever-growing belief with me that truth cannot be found by violent means.
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Tulsidas's Ramayana is a notable book because it is informed with the spirit of purity, pity and piety.
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Of all the black crimes that humanity is committing against the great Creation, vivisection is the blackest.