Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all.
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There are sufficient resources on this planet to answer the needs of all, but not enough to satisfy everyone's greed.
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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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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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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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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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If we have the khadi spirit in us, then we should surround ourselves with simplicity in every walk of life.
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Restore the spinning wheel to its place and you will solve the problem of poverty.
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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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I refuse to believe that the tendency of human nature is always downward.
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Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realise what a tremendous advantage she has over man.
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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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It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine.
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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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My conception of freedom is no narrow conception. It is co-extensive with the freedom of man in all his majesty.
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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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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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Blaming the wolf would not help the sheep much. The sheep must learn not to fall in the clutches of the wolf.
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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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It was the cowards who died many times before their death.
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We Indians are one as no two Englishmen are.
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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.