Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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By spiritual training I mean education of the heart.
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Is not labour, like learning, its own reward?
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The British are weak in numbers, we are weak in spite of our numbers.
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In the name of religion, we force widowhood upon our three lakh girl-widows who could not understand the import of the marriage ceremony.
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Man often becomes what he believes himself to be.
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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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Concentrate on your task.
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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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We have to make truth and non-violence not matters for mere individual practice but for practice by groups and communities and nations. That at any rate is my dream. I shall live and die in trying to realize it. My faith helps me to discover new truths every day.
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Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.
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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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No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world.
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I want co-operation between nations for the salvaging of civilization, but co-operation presupposes free nations worthy of co-operation.
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My religion teaches me that a promise once made or a vow once taken for a worthy object may not be broken.
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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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Devotion to Truth is the sole justification for our existence.
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To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.
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Ahimsa is the strongest force known.
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Wherever flaxseeds become a regular food item among the people, there will be better health.
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There is an indefinable mysterious Power that pervades everything.
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There can be in the eyes of God no distinction between man and man, even as there is no distinction between animal and animal.
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Our children should not be so taught as to despise labour.
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To me, God is Truth and Love; God is ethics and morality: God is fearlessness. God is the source of Light and Life and yet He is above and beyond all these. God is conscience... He is a personal God to those who need His personal presence. He is embodied to those who need His touch. He is the purest essence. He simply is to those who have faith. He is all things to all men.
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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?