Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Swaraj does not depend on jail going. If it did, there are thousands of prisoners in jail today. It depends on everyone doing his or her own task.
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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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Let us remember that we are all Indians eating Indian grain and salt, and living on the dumb Indian masses.
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Restore the spinning wheel to its place and you will solve the problem of poverty.
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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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We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him.
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I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.
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Strictly speaking, no activity and no industry is possible without a certain amount of violence, no matter how little. Even the very process of living is impossible without a certain amount of violence. What we have to do is to minimize it to the greatest extent possible.
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It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.
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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.
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The cry for the national home for the Jews does not make much appeal to me. The sanction for it is sought in the Bible and the tenacity with which the Jews have hankered after return to Palestine. Why should they not, like other peoples of the earth, make that country their home where they are born and where they earn their livelihood?
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Be the change that you want to see.
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It is derogatory to the dignity of mankind, it is derogatory to the dignity of India, to entertain for one single moment hatred towards Englishmen.
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Tolstoy was the greatest apostle of nonviolence that the present age has produced.
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Death on the battlefield is welcome to a soldier.
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Whomsoever you follow, howsoever great, see to it that you follow the spirit of the master and not imitate him mechanically.
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If everybody lives by the sweat of his brow, the earth will become a paradise.
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Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.
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Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
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In the dictionary of Satyagraha, there is no enemy.
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No Indian who aspires to follow the way of true religion can afford to remain aloof from politics.
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My ahimsa would not tolerate the idea of giving a free meal to a healthy person who has not worked for it in some honest way.
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A convert's enthusiasm for his new religion is greater than that of a person who is born in it.
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Freedom from all attachment is the realization of God as Truth.