Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Sorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily borne, but not if they are imposed.
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The use of soul-force for turning stones into bread would have been considered, as it is still considered, as black magic.
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I do not regard capital to be the enemy of labour.
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For me, humanitarian service, or rather service of all that lives, is religion. And I draw no distinction between such religion and politics.
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My attitude towards the British is one of utter friendliness and respect.
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The sacred thread and the tuft of hair without a pure heart and a spirit of toleration do not make a Hindu.
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Nationalism, like virtue, has its own reward.
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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
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A slave-holder cannot hold a slave without putting himself or his deputy in the cage for holding the slave.
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In our progress towards the goal, we ever see more and more enchanting scenery.
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If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
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Fight if you must on the path of righteousness and God will be with you.
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Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy. I did not move a muscle when I first heard that the atom bomb had wiped out Hiroshima. On the contrary, I said to myself, Unless now the world adopts non-violence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind.
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I will not be a traitor of God to please the whole world.
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A great man may not do great things but they do ordinary things greatly.
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While everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates.... For I can see 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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A genuine fast cleanses the body, mind and soul. It crucifies the flesh and to that extent sets the soul free.
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My Swaraj will be not be a result of murder of others but a voluntary act of continuous self-sacrifice.
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But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep.
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3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, but 9 is not prime; -in this incarnation.
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We are our own slaves, not of the British. This should be engraved on our minds. The whites cannot remain if we do not want them. If the idea is to drive them out with firearms, let every Indian consider what precious little profit Europe has found in these.
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Mr. Gandhi, you have been working fifteen hours a day for fifty years. Don't you think you should take a vacation?" Gandhi smiled and replied, "I am always on vacation.
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Social service that savours of patronage is not service.
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H. G. Wells was not the only one to mention Churchill and Hitler in the same breath: "Churchill and Hitler are striving to change the nature of their respective countrymen by forcing and hammering violent methods on them. Man may be suppressed in this manner but he cannot be changed. Ahimsa [non-violence in the Hindu tradition], on the other hand, can change human nature and sooner than men like Churchill and Hitler."