Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
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True suffering does not know itself and never calculates.
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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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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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Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.
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Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government.
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It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
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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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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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We Indians are one as no two Englishmen are.
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It was the cowards who died many times before their death.
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I know no diplomacy save that of truth.
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Swaraj of a people means the sum total of the Swaraj (self-rule) of individuals.
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A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can certainly take to physical labour.
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If you will express the requisite purity of character in action, you cannot do it better than through the spinning wheel.
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What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
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Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
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There is more to life than increasing its speed.
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It will be necessary for us Indians - Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Jews, Parsis and all others to whom India is their home - to recognize a common flag to live and die for.
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For Hindus to expect Islam, Christianity or Zoroastrianism to be driven out of India is as idle a dream as it would be for Mussalmans to have only Islam of their imagination rule the world.
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If we have the khadi spirit in us, then we should surround ourselves with simplicity in every walk of life.
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We shall make progress towards Swaraj only if we do everything thoughtfully and with understanding.
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It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.
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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.