Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The avowed policy of non-cooperation has been not to make political use of the disputes between labour and capital.
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If the Commander-in-Chief will look beyond the defence forces, he will discover that the real India is not military but peace-loving.
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If as a member of a slave nation I could deliver the suppressed classes from their slavery without freeing myself from my own, I would do so today. But it is an impossible task.
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Nationalism, like virtue, has its own reward.
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The cottage industry of India had to perish in order that Lancashire might flourish.
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Mankind is notoriously too dense to read the signs that God sends from time to time. We require drums to be beaten into our ears, before we should wake from our trance and hear the warning and see that to lose oneself in all, is the only way to find oneself.
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In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
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Everything we do is futile, but we must do it anyway.
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Swaraj is our birthright. No one can deprive us of it unless we forfeit it ourselves.
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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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Personally I like to believe that all become honest, the millennium is round the corner!
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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.
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I am just not thinking of India's deliverance. It will come, but will it be worth if England and France fall, or if they come out victorious over Germany ruined and humbled?
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There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence.
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What is equality of rights between a giant and a dwarf?
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I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
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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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They might kill me but they cannot kill Gandhism. If truth can be killed, Gandhism can be killed.
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A warrior lives on his wars, whether offensive or defensive. And he suffers a collapse if he finds that his warring capacity is unwanted.
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Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for non-violence. Violence does not mean the emancipation from fear, but discovering the means of combating the cause of fear. Nonviolence, on the other hand, has no cause for fear. The votary of nonviolence has to cultivate the capacity for sacrifice of the highest type in order to be free from fear. He recks not if he should lose his land, his wealth, his life.
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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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Withholding of payment of taxes is one of the quickest methods of overthrowing a government.
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I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace.
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Cow preservation is an article of faith in Hinduism.