Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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It is my unshakable belief that India's destiny is to deliver the message of nonviolence to mankind.
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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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My dharma teaches me to give my life for the sake of others without even attempting to kill.
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I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
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I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace.
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I do not want to see the allies defeated. But I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability that is amazing and seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed. Englishmen are showing the strength that Empire builders must have. I expect them to rise much higher than they seem to be doing.
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There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace.
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The cottage industry of India had to perish in order that Lancashire might flourish.
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To say that God permits evil in the world may not be pleasing to the ear. But if He is held responsible for the good, it follows that He has to be responsible for the evil too.
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God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.
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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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To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that being but with him, the whole world.
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Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two. What is obtained by love is retained for all time. What is obtained by hatred proves a burden in reality for it increases hatred." - by Mohandas K. Gandhi -
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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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Cow preservation is an article of faith in Hinduism.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment.
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Prayer is no mere exercise of words or of the ears, it is no mere repetition of empty formula.
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There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence.
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Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.
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Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you.
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Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
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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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Means to be means must always be within our reach, and so ahimsa is our supreme duty.
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Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.