Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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No perfect democracy is possible without perfect nonviolence at the back of it.
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There is no occasion for women to consider themselves subordinate or inferior to man.
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Ahimsa in theory no one knows. It is as indefinable as God.
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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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Silence is a great help to a seeker after truth like myself.
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There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence.
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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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Non-cooperation in the political field is an extension of the doctrine as it is practised in the domestic field.
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The difficulty one experiences in meeting himsa arises from weakness of mind.
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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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To die in the act of killing is, in essence, to die defeated.
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Let us work together for unity and love.
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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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If you want real peace in the world, start with children.
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The day a woman can walk freely on the roads at night, that day we can say that India has achieved independence.
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Journalism should never be prostituted for selfish ends or for the sake of merely earning a livelihood or, worse still, for amassing money.
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Nonviolent action means mobilization of world opinion in our favour.
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Satyagraha is a force that has come to stay. No force in the world can kill it.
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A true and nonviolent combination of labour would act like a magnet attracting to it all the needed capital.
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Do not judge others. Be your own judge and you will be truly happy. If you will try to judge others, you are likely to burn your fingers.
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No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom.
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As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.
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By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit.