Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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"Be the change you want to see in the world"...and, if you can't be that change, then either get out of the way of the person who wants to be that change or support the individual with your financial resources.
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The difficulty one experiences in meeting himsa arises from weakness of mind.
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Love has more force than a besieging army.
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Be the change you're trying to create.
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We labor under the fatal delusion that no disease can be cured without medicine. This has been responsible for more mischief to mankind than any other evil. ...Disease increases in proportion to the increase to the number of doctors in a place.
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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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Non-cooperation in the political field is an extension of the doctrine as it is practised in the domestic field.
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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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Prayer is either petitional or, in its wider sense, inward communion.
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We don't use guns because we don't have guns.
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Let us work together for unity and love.
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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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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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The future of India lies in its villages.
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My conception of dominion status implies present ability to severe the British connection if I wish to.
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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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Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence.
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Wherever you are you will always be in my heart.
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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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Our children should not be so taught as to despise labour.
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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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Doubt is invariably the result of want or weakness of faith.
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In the march towards Truth, anger, selfishness, hatred, etc., naturally give way, for otherwise Truth would be impossible to attain. A man who is swayed by passions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.
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Genuine laughter is true eloquence and more effective than speech.