Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Outward appearance is nothing to Him if it is not an expression of the inner.
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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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If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
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You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
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Prayer has been the saviour of my life. Without it I should have been a lunatic long ago.
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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?
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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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I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek - I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.
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Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
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It was the cowards who died many times before their death.
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There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.
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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 you will express the requisite purity of character in action, you cannot do it better than through the spinning wheel.
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The Bible is as much a book of religion with me as the Gita and the Koran.
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No one can dominate a population of 80,000,000.
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Any action that is dictated by fear or by coercion of any kind ceases to be moral.
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Half-a-dozen or twenty cities of India alone working together cannot bring Swaraj.
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Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.
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Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.
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You may pluck out my eyes, but that cannot kill me. You may chop off my nose, but that will not kill me. But blast my belief in God, and I am dead.
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Restore the spinning wheel to its place and you will solve the problem of poverty.
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A convert's enthusiasm for his new religion is greater than that of a person who is born in it.
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If an enemy strikes your left cheek, offer him your right.
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Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.