Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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An India awakened and free has a message of peace and goodwill to a groaning world.
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Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.
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Ahimsa must be placed before everything else while it is professed. Then alone it becomes irresistible.
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Since the propagation of nonviolence is the mission of my life, I must pursue it in all weathers.
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Keep my word positive. Words become my behaviors. Keep my behaviors positive. Behaviors become my habits. Keep my habits positive. Habits become my values. Keep my values positive. Values become my destiny.
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Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds.
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Sacrifice that causes pain is no sacrifice at all. True sacrifice is joy-giving and uplifting.
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Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths.
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At the individual level Swaraj is vitally connected with the capacity for dispassionate self-assessment , ceaseless self purification and growing self-reliance.... It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves.
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I own no enemy on earth. That is my creed.
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God demands nothing less than self - surrender as the price for the only real freedom that is worth having.
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Illness or disease is only Nature's warning that filth has accumulated in some portion or other of the body; and it would surely be the part of wisdom to allow Nature to remove the filth, instead of covering it up with the help of medicines.
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Under democracy individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.
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Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence.
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It will be necessary for us Indians - Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Jews, Parsis and all others to whom India is their home - to recognize a common flag to live and die for.
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My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all-embracing and I should reject that patriotism which sought to mount the distress or exploitation of other nationalities.
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The panoplied warrior of truth and nonviolence is ever and incessantly active.
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It is man's social nature which distinguishes him from the brute creation. If it is his privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter-dependent. Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.
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But all my life though, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise. I saw in later life that this spirit was an essential part of Satyagraha. It has often meant endangering my life and incurring the displeasure of friends. But truth is hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.
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My effort should never be to undermine another's faith but to make him a better follower of his own faith.
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A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can certainly take to physical labour.
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In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.
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I do not want India to rise on the ruin of other nations.
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I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning of learning.