Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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Why worry one's head over a thing that is inevitable? Why die before one's death?
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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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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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Nonviolent non-co-operators can only succeed when they have succeeded in attaining control over the hooligans of India.
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There is an indefinable mysterious Power that pervades everything.
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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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God answers prayer in His own way, not ours.
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No perfect democracy is possible without perfect nonviolence at the back of it.
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Economic equality of my conception does not mean that every one will literally have the same amount.
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Ahimsa is the strongest force known.
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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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Jesus, to me, is a great world teacher among others.
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We cry for cow protection in the name of religion, but we refuse protection to the human cow in the shape of the girl-widow.
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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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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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A definite forgiveness would mean a definite recognition of our strength.
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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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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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Wherever flaxseeds become a regular food item among the people, there will be better health.
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The spirit of democracy... requires change of the heart... requires the inculcation of the spirit of brotherhood.
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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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By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit.
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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.