Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.
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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 claim to be no more than an average man with below average capabilities.
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Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science.
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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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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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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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I would not flinch from sacrificing even a million lives for India's liberty.
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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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Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.
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Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.
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Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled.
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The first condition of nonviolence is justice all round, in every department of life.
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A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
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The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.
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I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.
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Every fight is one between different angles of vision illuminating the same truth.
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Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed.
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An institution that suffers from a plethora of leaders is surely in a bad way.
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To ignore the Mussalman grievance as if it was not felt is to postpone Swaraj.
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A man of truth must also be a man of care.
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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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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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We burn the evil men do with their mortal remains. We treasure the memory of the good they do, and distance magnifies it.