Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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If an enemy strikes your left cheek, offer him your right.
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I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.
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A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to its assistance.
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The devotee of truth is often obliged to grope in the dark.
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An India awakened and free has a message of peace and goodwill to a groaning world.
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Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.
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No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation.
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Animal experimentation is the blackest of all the black crimes that a man is at present committing... We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings... I abhor [animal] experimentation with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence... The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
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I know no diplomacy save that of truth.
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Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
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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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Of what avail is my love if it be only so long as I trust my friend?
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Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.
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Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
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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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The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind.
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Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government.
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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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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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My love for nonviolence is superior to every other thing, mundane or super mundane.
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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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The path of Truth is as narrow as it is straight. Even so is that of ahimsa.
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Rama, Allah and God are to me convertible terms.
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I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.