Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that one that must be loved is not a friend. There is not merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend.
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Those who have their hands dyed deep in blood cannot build a nonviolent order for the world.
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To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.
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No matter how explicit the pledge, people will turn and twist the text to suit their own purpose.
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Ahimsa can be practiced only towards those that are inferior to you in every way.
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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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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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When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from within.
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Ahimsa must be placed before everything else while it is professed. Then alone it becomes irresistible.
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A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to its assistance.
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The more I study Hindu scriptures, and the more I discuss them with Brahmins, the more I feel convinced that untouchability is the greatest blot upon Hinduism.
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Retaliation is counter-poison and poison breeds more poison. The nectar of Love alone can destroy the poison of hate.
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By using violence to subjugate one another we are using violence against our own souls.
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My creed of nonviolence is an extremely active force.
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I would beseech you not only to be pure beyond suspicion but I would ask you to combine with stainless purity, great wisdom and great ability.
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Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you.
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Prayer is no mere exercise of words or of the ears, it is no mere repetition of empty formula.
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The panoplied warrior of truth and nonviolence is ever and incessantly active.
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My mother would tell me that the shortest cut to purification after the unholy touch was to cancel the touch by touching any Mussalman passing by.
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A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society.
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The spinning wheel is the one thing to which all must turn to in the Indian clime for the transition stage at any rate and the vast majority must for all time.
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He who is ever brooding over result often loses nerve in the performance of his duty.
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I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.
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I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.