Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
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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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Great causes cannot be served by intellectual equipment alone, they call for spiritual effort of soul-force.
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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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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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The thing about you Christians, is that you are so unlike your Christ.
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The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa.
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If you take care of your immediate surroundings, the universe will take care of itself.
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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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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.
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Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
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For one man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole.
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Under ideal conditions, the barrister and the bhangi (sweeper) should both get the same payment.
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To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.
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Faith is not a delicate flower which would wither away under the slightest stormy weather.
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I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.
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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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No nation keeps another in subjection without herself turning into a subject nation.
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Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
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Everyone holds a piece of the truth.
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God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
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I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
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A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society.