Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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We are constantly being astonished these days at the amazing discoveries in the field of violence. But I maintain that far more undreamt of and seemingly impossible discoveries will be made in the field of nonviolence.
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Prayer has not been a part of my life in the sense that truth has been.
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Non-cooperation in the political field is an extension of the doctrine as it is practised in the domestic field.
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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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"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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Religion is not like a house or a cloak which can be changed at will.
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Continue to grow and evolve.
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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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If the village worker is not a decent man or woman, conducting a decent home, he or she had better not aspire after the high privilege and honour of becoming a village worker.
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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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The fullest application of ahimsa does make life impossible.
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A perfect Muslim is he from whose tongue and hands mankind is safe.
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Hinduism is a living organism. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown into a vast tree with innumerable branches. Knowledge is limitless and so also the application of truth. Everyday we add to our knowledge of the power of Atman (soul) and we shall keep on doing so.
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There is enough for the need of everyone in this world, but not for the greed of everyone.
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To put up with. . . distortions and to stick to one's guns come what may - this is the. . . gift of leadership.
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The way of mutual strife and exclusiveness is the only way to perdition and slavery.
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To die in the act of killing is, in essence, to die defeated.
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Your future depends on what you do today.
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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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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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I have not lost the hope that the masses will refuse to bow to the Moloch of war but they will rely upon their own capacity for suffering to save their country's honour.
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Throughout the history of mankind there have been murderers and tyrants; and while it may seem momentarily that they have the upper hand, they have always fallen. Always.
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The difficulty one experiences in meeting himsa arises from weakness of mind.
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The greatest lessons in life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from the grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children.