Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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The future of India lies in its villages.
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When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.
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The Khaddar of my conception is that handspun cloth entirely takes the place of mill cloth in India.
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We may never be strong enough to be entirely non-violent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep non-violence as our goal and make steady progress towards it.
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Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.
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Devotion to Truth is the sole justification for our existence.
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All I want to say, with the utmost emphasis at my command, is that the description of India as a military country is wrong.
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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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A definite forgiveness would mean a definite recognition of our strength.
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Let us work together for unity and love.
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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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Is not labour, like learning, its own reward?
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The greatest lessons in life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from the grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children.
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That which is inherent in man is his virtue.
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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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Wherever you are you will always be in my heart.
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The art of producing good music from a cultivated voice can be achieved by many, but the art of producing that music from the harmony of a pure life is achieved very rarely.
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I have not lost the hope that the masses will refuse to bow to the Moloch of war but they will rely upon their own capacity for suffering to save their country's honour.
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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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Many could forgo heavy meals, a full wardrobe, a fine house, etcetera. It is the ego they cannot forgo.
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Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence.
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There is no occasion for women to consider themselves subordinate or inferior to man.
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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.