Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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If you take care of your immediate surroundings, the universe will take care of itself.
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Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
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Though God may be Love, God is Truth above all.
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Everyone holds a piece of the truth.
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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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The measure of a country's greatness should be based on how well it cares for its most vulnerable populations.
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It is not true that we shall necessarily progress if our political conditions undergo a change, irrespectively of the manner in which it is brought about. If the means employed are impure, the change will not be in the direction of progress but very likely in the opposite.
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Let the Gita be to you a mine of diamonds, as it has been to me; let it be your constant guide and friend on life's way.
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Celibacy is a great help, inasmuch as it enables one to lead a life of full surrender to God.
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Men should do their actual living and working in communities small enough to permit of genuine self-government and the assumption of personal responsibilities, federated into larger units in such a way that the temptation to abuse great power should not arise.
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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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Real Swaraj will come, not by the acquisition of authority by a few, but by the acquisition of the capacity by all to resist authority when it is abused. In other words, Swaraj is to be attained by educating the masses to a sense of their capacity to regulate and control authority.
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Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
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You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
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Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled.
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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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The first condition of nonviolence is justice all round, in every department of life.
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When the panchayat raj is established, public opinion will do what violence can never do.
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A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
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Nonviolent non-co-operation is the only alternative to anarchy and worse.
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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
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To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.
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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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Each one prays to God according to his own light.