Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-violent structure of society.
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Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two. What is obtained by love is retained for all time. What is obtained by hatred proves a burden in reality for it increases hatred." - by Mohandas K. Gandhi -
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A satyagrahi lays down his life, but never gives up. That is the meaning of the 'do or die' slogan.
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There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.
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Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin.
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A man like me cannot but believe that this earthquake is a divine chastisement sent by God for our sins.
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Far better than emasculation would be the bravery of those who use physical force. Far better than cowardice would be meeting one's death fighting.
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My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.
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Boycott brought about anyhow of British cloth cannot yield the same results as such boycott brought about by hand-spinning and khaddar.
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The Koran says that there can be no heaven for one who sheds the blood of an innocent neighbour.
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I like their Christ, but I don't like their Christians.
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Restore the spinning wheel to its place and you will solve the problem of poverty.
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I am just not thinking of India's deliverance. It will come, but will it be worth if England and France fall, or if they come out victorious over Germany ruined and humbled?
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Every species, human and subhuman, has some distinguishing mark, so that you can tell a man from a beast, or a dog from a cow.
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A mind not set on God is given to wandering and lacks the quality of a temple of worship.
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Our sages have taught us to learn one thing; `As in the Self, so in the Universe.' It is not possible to scan the universe as it is to scan the self. Know the self and you know the universe.
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By ahimsa we will be able to save the cow and also win the friendship of the English.
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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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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
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Human nature will find itself only when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or brutal.
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Ahimsa must be placed before everything else while it is professed. Then alone it becomes irresistible.
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Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
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I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor.
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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.