Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Be the change you seek.
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Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
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Swaraj of a people means the sum total of the Swaraj (self-rule) of individuals.
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To me Truth is God and there is no way to find Truth except the way of nonviolence.
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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
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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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What the divine author of the Mahabharata said of his great creation is equally true of Hinduism. Whatever of substance is contained in any other religion is always to be found in Hindusim, and what is not contained in it is insubstantial or unnecessary.
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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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None, while in flesh, can be entirely free from himsa, because one never completely renounces the will to live.
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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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I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live, I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species.
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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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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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I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.
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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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He is no God who merely satisfies the intellect, if He ever does.
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If an enemy strikes your left cheek, offer him your right.
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Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
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Robust faith in oneself and brave trust of the opponent, so called or real, is the best safeguard.
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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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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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God forbid that India should ever become a military nation, which would be a menace to the peace of the world, and yet if things went on as they were doing, what hope was there for India and, therefore, for the world?
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Prayer has been the saviour of my life. Without it I should have been a lunatic long ago.
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Where there is fear there is no religion.