Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.
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Whomsoever you follow, howsoever great, see to it that you follow the spirit of the master and not imitate him mechanically.
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Be the change you seek.
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The moment the cultivators of the soil realize their power, the evil of Zamindari will be sterilized.
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I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
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By using violence to subjugate one another we are using violence against our own souls.
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When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to Bhagavad-gita and find a verse to comfort me; and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow. Those who meditate on the Gita will derive fresh joy and new meanings from it every day.
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Death on the battlefield is welcome to a soldier.
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It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.
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All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.
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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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Satyagraha is a process of educating public opinion, such that it covers all the elements of the society and in the end makes itself irresistible.
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Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy. I did not move a muscle when I first heard that the atom bomb had wiped out Hiroshima. On the contrary, I said to myself, Unless now the world adopts non-violence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind.
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Our peaceful non – co – operation must be constructive, non-destructive. Poison should not emerge from the throes of love.
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I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace.
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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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Jealousy does not wait for reasons.
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What I call the law of satyagraha is to be deduced from an appreciation of duties and rights flowing therefrom.
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It is derogatory to the dignity of mankind, it is derogatory to the dignity of India, to entertain for one single moment hatred towards Englishmen.
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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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Withholding of payment of taxes is one of the quickest methods of overthrowing a government.
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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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Tolstoy was the greatest apostle of nonviolence that the present age has produced.
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That nation is great which rests its head upon death as its pillow.