Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, but 9 is not prime; -in this incarnation.
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Tolstoy was the greatest apostle of nonviolence that the present age has produced.
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Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence.
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An institution that suffers from a plethora of leaders is surely in a bad way.
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The best politics is right action.
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By using violence to subjugate one another we are using violence against our own souls.
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Non-violence and cowardice are contradictory terms. Non-violence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice. Non-violence springs from love, cowardice from hate. Non-violence always suffers, cowardice would always inflict suffering. Perfect non-violence is the highest bravery. Non-violent conduct is never demoralising; cowardice always is.
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Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.
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Mutual tolerance is a necessity for all time and for all races.
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True education is that which proves useful in life and makes you industrious.
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Never make a promise in haste.
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Now when we talk of brotherhood of men, we stop there and feel that all other life is there for man to exploit for his own purposes. But Hinduism excludes all exploitation.
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Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped by the grain. It is a heart grasp.
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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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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
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Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
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The moment the cultivators of the soil realize their power, the evil of Zamindari will be sterilized.
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A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.
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A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
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Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. That strength may be physical or of the heart or, if we do not fight shy of the word, of the spirit. Strength of the heart connotes soul-force. Let it be remembered that physical force is transitory, even as the body is transitory. But the power of spirit is permanent even as the spirit is everlasting.
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Nonviolent non-co-operation is the only alternative to anarchy and worse.
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My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
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There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.
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Mankind is notoriously too dense to read the signs that God sends from time to time. We require drums to be beaten into our ears, before we should wake from our trance and hear the warning and see that to lose oneself in all, is the only way to find oneself.