Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The concepts of truth may differ. But all admit and respect truth. That truth I call God. For sometime I was saying, "God is Truth," but that did not satisfy me. So now I say, "Truth is God."
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Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
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In India there is a common saying that the way to Swaraj is through Mandalay.
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If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.
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The finite human being shall never know in its fullness Truth and Love which is itself infinite.
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Under ideal conditions, the barrister and the bhangi (sweeper) should both get the same payment.
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The man or the woman who can display the nonviolence of the brave can easily stand against as external invasion.
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I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong.
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You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
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My Swaraj is to keep intact the genius of our civilization.
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Man is the maker of his own destiny, and I therefore ask you to become makers of your own destiny.
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Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.
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An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
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Purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one's surroundings.
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I am a poor mendicant. My earthly possessions consist of six spinning wheels, prison dishes, a can of goat's milk, six homespun loincloths and towels and my reputation, which cannot be worth much.
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The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa.
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I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
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True ahimsa should wear a smile even on a deathbed brought about by an assailant. It is only with that ahimsa that we can befriend our opponents and win their love.
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One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole.
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The thing about you Christians, is that you are so unlike your Christ.
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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him.
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I wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.
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Free, open love I have looked upon as dog's love. Secret love is, besides, cowardly.