Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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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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What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated? What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy. What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals? The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Non-cooperation with evil is a sacred duty.
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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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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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Cow preservation is an article of faith in Hinduism.
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I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts. A thoughtless word hardly ever escaped my tongue or pen. Experience has taught me that silence is part of the spiritual discipline of a votary of truth. We find so many people impatient to talk. All this talking can hardly be said to be of any benefit to the world. It is so much waste of time. My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.
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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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Be the change you seek.
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If the lambs of the world had been willingly led, they would have long ago saved themselves from the butcher's knife.
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It amazes me to find an intelligent person who fights against something which he does not at all believe exists.
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Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin.
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Be congruent, be authentic, be your true self.
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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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A non-violent revolution is not a program of seizure of power. It is a program of transformation of relationships, ending in a peaceful transfer of power.
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The world cannot be successfully fooled for all time.
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It was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it.
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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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What will tell in the end will be character and not a knowledge of letters.
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Forgiveness is the virtue of the brave.
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A man who is truthful and does not mean ill even to his adversary will be slow to believe charges even against his foes. He will, however, try to understand the viewpoints of his opponents and will always keep an open mind and seek every opportunity of serving his opponents.
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Nations are not formed in a day, the formation requires years.
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I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor.
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The rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society.