Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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That we should obey laws whether good or bad is a new-fangled notion. There was no such thing in former days. The people disregarded those laws they did not like and suffered the penalties for their breach.
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I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
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Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
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Selfless action is a source of strength.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.
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Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
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Peace is the state where love abides and seeks to share itself.
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I would bend the knee before the poorest scavenger, the poorest untouchable in India for having participated in crushing him for centuries; I would even take the dust off his feet.
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I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest number. It means in its nakedness that in order to achieve the supposed good of 51 per cent the interests of 49 per cent may be, or rather, should be sacrificed. It is a heartless doctrine and has done harm to humanity.
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Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
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Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.
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An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
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We do not know the laws of God, nor their working.
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The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.
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Satyagraha does not depend on outside help, it derives all its strength from within.
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No human being is so bad as to be beyond redemption.
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I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.
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I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
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If treachery is the reward of trust, will the man who trusts come to harm?