Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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It's easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone.
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Morality is contraband in war.
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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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I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.
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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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Because no one sees the truth does not make it untrue.
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To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?
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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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True suffering does not know itself and never calculates.
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It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words. God did not bear the cross only two thousand years ago. He bears it today, and he dies and is resurrected from day to day. It would be a poor comfort to the world if it had to depend on a historical God who died two thousand years ago. Do not, then, preach the God of history, but show him as he lives today through you.
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To a pure heart all hearts are pure.
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3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, but 9 is not prime; -in this incarnation.
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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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Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving.
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I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.
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Some of my corresponents seem to think that I can work wonders. Let me say as a devotee of truth that I have no such gift. All the power I may have comes from God. But He does not work directly. He works through His numberless agencies. In this case it is the Congress.
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I claim to be no more than an average man with below average capabilities.
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Every fight is one between different angles of vision illuminating the same truth.
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To ignore the Mussalman grievance as if it was not felt is to postpone Swaraj.
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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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It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
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Nonviolence is not an easy thing to understand, still less to practice, weak as we are.
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Temples are like spiritual hospitals, and the sinful, who are spiritually diseased, have the first right to be ministered to by them.
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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.