Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Civilization is the encouragement of differences.
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Nothing can so quickly put the masses on their legs as the spinning wheel and all it means.
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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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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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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry.
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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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A man of truth must also be a man of care.
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If we weep for all the deaths in our country, the tears in our eyes would never dry.
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Half-a-dozen or twenty cities of India alone working together cannot bring Swaraj.
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I would not flinch from sacrificing even a million lives for India's liberty.
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In nature there is a fundamental unity running through all the diversity we see about us. Religions are given to mankind so as to accelerate the process of realisation of fundamental unity.
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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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Truth and ahimsa will never be destroyed.
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Unless our hands go hand in hand with our heads, we will be able to do nothing whatsoever.
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Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.
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If we were strong, self-respecting and not susceptible to frightfulness, the foreign rulers would have been powerless for mischief.
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I do not regard capital to be the enemy of labour.
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Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.
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Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
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Outward appearance is nothing to Him if it is not an expression of the inner.
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Nothing once begun should be abandoned, unless it is proved to be morally wrong.
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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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Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.
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Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?