Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa.
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I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.
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An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
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Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
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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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Great causes cannot be served by intellectual equipment alone, they call for spiritual effort of soul-force.
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
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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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If you take care of your immediate surroundings, the universe will take care of 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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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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If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.
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Under ideal conditions, the barrister and the bhangi (sweeper) should both get the same payment.
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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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Infinite Love is a weapon of matchless potency. It is the 'summum bonum' of life. It is an attribute of the brave, in fact it is their all. It does not come within the each of the coward. It is no wooden of lifeless dogma but a living and life-giving.
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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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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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Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
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That I want to destroy British imperialism is another matter, but I want to do so by converting those who are associated with it.
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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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I am but a poor struggling soul yearning to be wholly good, wholly truthful and wholly non-violent in thought, word and deed, but ever failing to reach the ideal which I know to be true. It is a painful climb, but each step upwards makes me feel stronger and fit for the next.
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Faith is not a delicate flower which would wither away under the slightest stormy weather.
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We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
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Everyone holds a piece of the truth.