Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
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I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
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A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.
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I wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.
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Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
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Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
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I draw no distinction between error and sin. If a man commits a bona fide mistake and confesses it with a contrite heart before his Maker, the merciful Maker sterilizes it of all harm.
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Nonviolence is not an easy thing to understand, still less to practice, weak as we are.
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The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion. I know that I have not in me as yet that triple purity in spite of constant ceaseless striving for it. That is why the world's praise fails to move me, indeed it very often stings me. To conquer the subtle passions seems to me to be harder far than the physical conquest of the world by the force of arms.
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I have regarded Jesus of Nazareth as one amongst the mighty teachers that the world has had. . . . I shall say to the Hindus that your lives will be incomplete unless you reverently study the teachings of Jesus.
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In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.
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Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science.
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If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.
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Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.
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Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face.
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All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
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I would not flinch from sacrificing even a million lives for India's liberty.
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Life and death are but phases of the same thing, the reverse and obverse of the same coin. Death is as necessary for man's growth as life itself.
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There is more to life than increasing its speed.
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I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
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The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa.
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Celibacy is a great help, inasmuch as it enables one to lead a life of full surrender to God.