Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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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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A non-violent revolution is not a program of seizure of power. It is a program of transformation of relationships, ending in a peaceful transfer of power.
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As a rule, the mind, residing in a body that has become weakened by pampering, is also weak, and where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.
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Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.
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An institution that suffers from a plethora of leaders is surely in a bad way.
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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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I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen.
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I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.
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Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths.
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Nonviolent non-co-operation is the only alternative to anarchy and worse.
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Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.
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Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.
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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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Even the atheists, who have pretended to disbelieve in God, have believed in Truth.
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My conception of freedom is no narrow conception. It is co-extensive with the freedom of man in all his majesty.
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I own no enemy on earth. That is my creed.
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Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.
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We both may be killed by the Muslims, and must put our purity to the ultimate test, so that we know that we are offering the purest of sacrifices, and we should now both start sleeping naked.
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Just think out for yourselves, if a man who was good yesterday has become bad after having come in contact with me, is he responsible that he has deteriorated or am I? ... It is well to take the blame sometimes.
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The avowed policy of non-cooperation has been not to make political use of the disputes between labour and capital.
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Work for Swaraj fails to appeal to us because we have no music in us.
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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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What will tell in the end will be character and not a knowledge of letters.