Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Personally I like to believe that all become honest, the millennium is round the corner!
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Remember that there is always a limit to self-indulgence but none to self-restraint, and let us daily progress in that direction.
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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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Hindu-Muslim unity, khaddar and removal of untouchability are to me the foundation of Swaraj.
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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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Withholding of payment of taxes is one of the quickest methods of overthrowing a government.
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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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The fragrance of religious and spiritual life is much finer and subtler than that of the rose.
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There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, i.e. the voice of conscience even though such obedience may cost many a bitter tear, and even more, separation from friends, from family, from the state, to which you may belong, from all that you have held as dear as life itself. For this obedience is the law of our being.
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I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace.
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The cottage industry of India had to perish in order that Lancashire might flourish.
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What is equality of rights between a giant and a dwarf?
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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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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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Ahimsa must be placed before everything else while it is professed. Then alone it becomes irresistible.
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Naked violence repels like the naked skeleton shorn of flesh, blood and the velvety skin.
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Religions are different roads converging on the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal? I believe that all religions of the world are true more or less. I say "more or less" because I believe that everything the human hand touches, by reason of the very fact that human beings are imperfect, becomes imperfect.
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There are sufficient resources on this planet to answer the needs of all, but not enough to satisfy everyone's greed.
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Never make a promise in haste.
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Truth is transcendent. There are many expressions of it and ways to glimpse it. We cannot hold it in our clenched fist, but must hold it in our open palm and invite others to see it for themselves.
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Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.
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There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace.
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Swaraj does not depend on jail going. If it did, there are thousands of prisoners in jail today. It depends on everyone doing his or her own task.
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Prayer is no mere exercise of words or of the ears, it is no mere repetition of empty formula.