Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Continue to grow and evolve.
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Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.
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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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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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Devotion to Truth is the sole justification for our existence.
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Change yourself - you are in control.
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When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war.
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If intellect plays a large part in the field of violence, I hold that it plays a larger part in the field of nonviolence.
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Democracy can only represent the average if not less than the average.
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Ahimsa is the strongest force known.
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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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Is not labour, like learning, its own reward?
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The willing sacrifice of the innocents is the most powerful retort to insolent tyranny that has yet to be conceived by God or man.
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For a nonviolent struggle, there is no age limit. The blind, the maimed and the bed-ridden may serve, and not only men but women also.
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The Khaddar of my conception is that handspun cloth entirely takes the place of mill cloth in India.
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Lady is the buddy of man, skilled with equivalent mental limit.
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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 a heavy downpour of rain which drenches the soil to fullness; likewise only a profuse shower of love can overcome hatred.
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The fullest application of ahimsa does make life impossible.
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The way to truth lies through ahimsa (nonviolence).
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Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together.
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In the march towards Truth, anger, selfishness, hatred, etc., naturally give way, for otherwise Truth would be impossible to attain. A man who is swayed by passions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.
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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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Music has given me peace. I can remember occasions when music instantly tranquillized my mind, when I was greatly agitated over something. Music has helped me to overcome anger.