Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Keep your values positive, because your values become your destiny.
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Though I cannot claim to be a Christian in the sectarian sense, the example of Jesus suffering is a factor in the composition of my undying faith in non-violence which rules all my actions, worldly and temporal.
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Tulsidas's Ramayana is a notable book because it is informed with the spirit of purity, pity and piety.
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Through realization of freedom of India, I hope to realize and carry on the mission of brotherhood of man.
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We want to go in for suffering, and there may be torture. If we put the women in front the Government may hesitate to inflict on us all the penalty that they might otherwise inflict.
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Non-cooperation is the quickest method of creating public opinion.
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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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The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear.
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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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Genuine laughter is true eloquence and more effective than speech.
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We don't use guns because we don't have guns.
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Prayer is either petitional or, in its wider sense, inward communion.
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Man does not live by destruction.
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Music has given me peace. I can remember occasions when music instantly tranquillized my mind, when I was greatly agitated over something. Music has helped me to overcome anger.
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If the Commander-in-Chief will look beyond the defence forces, he will discover that the real India is not military but peace-loving.
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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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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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A faith gained in strength only when people were willing to lay down their lives for it.
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My Swaraj takes note of bhangis, dheds, dublas and the weakest of the weak, and except the spinning wheel I know no other thing which befriends all these.
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A democrat must be utterly selfless. He must think and dream not in terms of self or of party, but only of democracy.
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Of all the black crimes that humanity is committing against the great Creation, vivisection is the blackest.
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Ahimsa in theory no one knows. It is as indefinable as God.
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Fear is not a disease of the body; fear kills the soul.
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The stability of the State depends upon the readiness of every citizen to subordinate his rights to those of the rest.