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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Every fight is one between different angles of vision illuminating the same truth.
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If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is no independence.
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To ignore the Mussalman grievance as if it was not felt is to postpone Swaraj.
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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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Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.
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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 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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Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
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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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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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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry.
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For the poor, the economic is spiritual.
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Satyagraha is a process of educating public opinion, such that it covers all the elements of the society and in the end makes itself irresistible.
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What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells?
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I regard Duryodhana and his party as the baser impulses in man, and Arjuna and his party as the higher impulses.
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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.
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The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.
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The inner voice is something which cannot be described in words. But sometimes we have a positive feeling that something in us prompts us to do a certain thing. The time when I learnt to recognise this voice was, I may say, the time when I started praying regularly.
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By patriotism I mean the welfare of the whole people, if I secure it at the hands of my opponent, I should bow down my head to him.
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My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all embracing. The conception of my patriotism is nothing if it is not always, in every case, without exception, consistent with the broadest good of humanity at large.
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No labour is too mean for one who wants to earn an honest penny.
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I know that I have still before me a difficult path to traverse. I must reduce myself to zero. So long as a man does not of his own free will put himself last among his fellow creatures, there is no salvation for him. Ahimsa is the farthest limit of humility.
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Strictly speaking, no activity and no industry is possible without a certain amount of violence, no matter how little. Even the very process of living is impossible without a certain amount of violence. What we have to do is to minimize it to the greatest extent possible.