Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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None, while in flesh, can be entirely free from himsa, because one never completely renounces the will to live.
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No society can possibly be built upon a denial of individual freedom.It is contrary to the very nature of man. Just as a man will not grow horns or a tail, so will he not exist as man if he has no mind of his own. In reality even those who do not believe in the liberty of the individual believe in their own.
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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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All our philosophy is as dry as dust if it is not immediately translated into some act of living service.
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If the Commander-in-Chief will look beyond the defence forces, he will discover that the real India is not military but peace-loving.
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The Bible is as much a book of religion with me as the Gita and the Koran.
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Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-violent structure of society.
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We shall make progress towards Swaraj only if we do everything thoughtfully and with understanding.
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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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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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You may pluck out my eyes, but that cannot kill me. You may chop off my nose, but that will not kill me. But blast my belief in God, and I am dead.
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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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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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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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I know no diplomacy save that of truth.
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I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.
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If an enemy strikes your left cheek, offer him your right.
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God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the West. The economic imperialism of a single tiny island kingdom is today keeping the world in chains. If an entire nation of 300 million took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare.
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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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Swaraj is not a product of excitement or intoxication. Swaraj will be the natural and inevitable result of business like habits.
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I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen.
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Bravery on the battlefield is impossible for us. Bravery of the soul still remains open to us.
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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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My conception of freedom is no narrow conception. It is co-extensive with the freedom of man in all his majesty.