Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The panoplied warrior of truth and nonviolence is ever and incessantly active.
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I have found by experience that man makes his plans to be upset by God, but, at the same time, where the ultimate goal is the search of truth, on matter how a man's plans are frustrated the issue is never injurious and often better than anticipated.
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Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-violent structure of society.
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I know no diplomacy save that of truth.
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Swaraj would be real Swaraj only when there would be no occasion for safeguarding any rights.
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That religion and that nation will be blotted out of the face of the earth which pins its faith on injustice, untruth or violence.
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Hinduism with its message of ahimsa is to me the most glorious religion in the world.
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By patriotism I mean the welfare of the whole people, if I secure it at the hands of my opponent, I should bow down my head to him.
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Swaraj is not meant for cowards, but for those who would mount smilingly to the gallows and refuse even to allow their eyes to be bandaged.
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My religion enables me, obliges me to imbibe all that is good in all the great religions of the earth.
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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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Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
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I like their Christ, but I don't like their Christians.
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A clean confession combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest type of repentance.
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The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton.
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I am the only one, whom you may find it hard to get rid of, for I have always counted myself as a woman.
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I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live, I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species.
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A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can certainly take to physical labour.
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I own no enemy on earth. That is my creed.
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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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I know of no one who has done more for humanity than Jesus. In fact, there is nothing wrong with Christianity … The trouble is with you Christians. You do not begin to live up to your own teachings.
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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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Our peaceful non – co – operation must be constructive, non-destructive. Poison should not emerge from the throes of love.
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I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.