Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Non-cooperation is an attempt to awaken the masses to a sense of their dignity and power.
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As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.
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Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for.
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To put up with. . . distortions and to stick to one's guns come what may - this is the. . . gift of leadership.
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Don't listen to friends when the Friend inside you says "Do this."
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Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves.
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It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even mortal persecution.
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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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I believe in the capacity of India to offer nonviolent battle to the English rulers.
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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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A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much.
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Assumption of superiority by any person over any other is a sin against God and man.
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A scavenger who works in His service shares equal distinction with a king who uses his gifts in His name and is a mere trustee.
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Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
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I am endeavouring to see God through service of humanity; for I know that God is neither in heaven, nor down below, but in everyone.
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Truth has drawn me into the field of politics; and I can say without the slightest hesitation, and yet in all humility, that those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means.
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A successful bloody revolution can only mean further misery for the masses.
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Man does not live by destruction.
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Never own defeat in a sacred cause and make up your minds henceforth that you will be pure and that you will find a response from God.
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Find yourself by losing yourself for others.
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The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that, too, unconditional assistance.
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Poverty is the greatest violence.
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If you want a change in the world, be the change.
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My interest in India's freedom will cease if she adopts violent means, for their fruit will not be freedom but slavery in disguise.