Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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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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Be the compromise you want to see in the world.
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I have endeavored to show that there is no real service of humanity in the profession of medicine and that it is injurious to mankind.
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The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.
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Your readiness to suffer will light the torch of freedom which will never be put out.
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Democracy can only represent the average if not less than the average.
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By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit.
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In true democracy every man and woman is taught to think for himself or herself.
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I have mentally become a woman in order to steal into her heart.
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In the days of democracy there is no such thing as active loyalty to a person. You are, therefore, loyal or disloyal to institutions.
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Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
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Prayer is an impossibility without a living faith in the presence of God within.
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If you want real peace in the world, start with children.
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Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth.
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Khadi work without the mastery of the science of khadi will be love's labour lost in terms of Swaraj.
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It Is possible to live in peace.
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This feeling of helplessness in us has arisen from our deliberate dismissal of God from our common affairs.
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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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The unlimited capacity of the plant world to sustain man at his highest is a region as yet unexplored by modern science.
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Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.
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A definite forgiveness would mean a definite recognition of our strength.
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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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My faith runs so very much faster than my reason that I can challenge the whole world and say, 'God is, was and ever shall be'.