Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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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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I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
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Retaliation is counter-poison and poison breeds more poison. The nectar of Love alone can destroy the poison of hate.
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If everybody lives by the sweat of his brow, the earth will become a paradise.
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It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.
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That nation is great which rests its head upon death as its pillow.
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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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I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.
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I saw that bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education.
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The spinning wheel is the one thing to which all must turn to in the Indian clime for the transition stage at any rate and the vast majority must for all time.
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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry.
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When the panchayat raj is established, public opinion will do what violence can never do.
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Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you.
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Change occurs when deeply felt private experiences are given public legitimacy.
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Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled.
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I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
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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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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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Satan's successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips.