Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Like the bee gathering honey from the different flowers, the wise person accepts the essence of the different scriptures and sees only the good in all religions.
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Whatever I do is out of love.
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The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.
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Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs... Surely it would be a crime against humanity to reduce the proud Arabs so that Palestine can be restored to the Jews partly or wholly as their national home.
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God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the West. The economic imperialism of a single tiny island kingdom is today keeping the world in chains. If an entire nation of 300 million took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare.
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I refuse to believe that the tendency of human nature is always downward.
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Forgiveness is the virtue of the brave.
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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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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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Employers ganging up against workers is like raising an army of elephants against ants.
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Naked violence repels like the naked skeleton shorn of flesh, blood and the velvety skin.
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Everything we do is futile, but we must do it anyway.
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I do regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism are.
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To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that one that must be loved is not a friend. There is not merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend.
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Just think out for yourselves, if a man who was good yesterday has become bad after having come in contact with me, is he responsible that he has deteriorated or am I? ... It is well to take the blame sometimes.
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Ahimsa must be placed before everything else while it is professed. Then alone it becomes irresistible.
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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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A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.
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Our sages have taught us to learn one thing; `As in the Self, so in the Universe.' It is not possible to scan the universe as it is to scan the self. Know the self and you know the universe.
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Ahimsa is the height of Kshatriya dharma as it represents the climax of fearlessness.
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If we take care of the means, we are bound to reach the end sooner or later. When once we have grasped this point, final victory is beyond question. Whatever difficulties we encounter, whatever apparent reverses we sustain, we may not give up the quest for truth.
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True education is that which proves useful in life and makes you industrious.
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Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence.
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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.