Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The moment the cultivators of the soil realize their power, the evil of Zamindari will be sterilized.
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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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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 religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.
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If the lambs of the world had been willingly led, they would have long ago saved themselves from the butcher's knife.
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India is less manly under the British rule than she ever was before.
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My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all embracing. The conception of my patriotism is nothing if it is not always, in every case, without exception, consistent with the broadest good of humanity at large.
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I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.
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A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.
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Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
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The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.
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Change occurs when deeply felt private experiences are given public legitimacy.
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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
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Death on the battlefield is welcome to a soldier.
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Islam stands for the unity and brotherhood of mankind, and not for disrupting the oneness of the human family.
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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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A mind not set on God is given to wandering and lacks the quality of a temple of worship.
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The best politics is right action.
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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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It amazes me to find an intelligent person who fights against something which he does not at all believe exists.
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Means to be means must always be within our reach, and so ahimsa is our supreme duty.
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Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. That strength may be physical or of the heart or, if we do not fight shy of the word, of the spirit. Strength of the heart connotes soul-force. Let it be remembered that physical force is transitory, even as the body is transitory. But the power of spirit is permanent even as the spirit is everlasting.
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When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from within.
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By using violence to subjugate one another we are using violence against our own souls.