Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Religion taught us to return good for evil.
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Prayer has not been a part of my life in the sense that truth has been.
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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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The votaries of nonviolence cannot harbour violence even in thought, let alone the question of doing it.
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Democracy can only represent the average if not less than the average.
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Lady is the buddy of man, skilled with equivalent mental limit.
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Doubt is invariably the result of want or weakness of faith.
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Continue to grow and evolve.
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Let us work together for unity and love.
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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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To gain India's freedom, the capacity for suffering must go hand in hand with the capacity for ceaseless labour.
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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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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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Where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.
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The Swaraj of my dream recognizes no race or religious distinctions.
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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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Many could forgo heavy meals, a full wardrobe, a fine house, etcetera. It is the ego they cannot forgo.
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In this, of all the countries in the world, possession of inordinate wealth by individuals should be held as a crime against Indian humanity.
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Anything that exists is possible.
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Nothing depends upon the death of an individual, be he ever so great, but much depends upon the freedom of India.
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A definite forgiveness would mean a definite recognition of our strength.
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Satyagraha is a force that has come to stay. No force in the world can kill it.
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Time is wealth, and the Gita says the Great Annihilator annihilates those who waste time.
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It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world.