Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions.
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Khadi service, village service and Harijan service are one in reality, though three in name.
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Love has more force than a besieging army.
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What God may have enabled me to do is but a repayment of debt, and he who repays a debt deserves no praise.
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Do not flatter yourselves with the belief that a mere recital of that celebrated verse in St. John makes a man a Christian.
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The difficulty one experiences in meeting himsa arises from weakness of mind.
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[He] alone is truly nonviolent who remains nonviolent even though he has the ability to strike.
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The lives of Zoroaster, Jesus and Mohammed, as I have understood them, have illumined many a passage in the Gita.
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I believe in the capacity of India to offer nonviolent battle to the English rulers.
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There is goodness as well as greatness in simplicity, not in wealth.
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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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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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A man of faith does not bargain or stipulate with God.
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Nonviolent action means mobilization of world opinion in our favour.
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Wherever you are you will always be in my heart.
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Is a civilization worth the name, which requires, for its existence the very doubtful prop of a racial legislation and a lynch law?
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Your readiness to suffer will light the torch of freedom which will never be put out.
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To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.
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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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Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for.
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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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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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Man does not live by destruction.