Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Nations are born out of travail and suffering.
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I was a coward. I used to be haunted by the fear of thieves, ghosts and serpents. I did not dare to stir out of doors at night. Darkness was a terror to me. It was almost impossible for me to sleep in the dark, as I would imagine ghosts coming from one direction, thieves from another and serpents from a third. I could not therefore bear to sleep without a light in the room.
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Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.
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Satan's successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips.
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God demands nothing less than self - surrender as the price for the only real freedom that is worth having.
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I have nothing of the communalist in me because my Hinduism is all inclusive.
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In the dictionary of Satyagraha, there is no enemy.
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Purification is never for the selfishly idle, it accrues only to the selflessly industrious.
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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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Jealousy does not wait for reasons.
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Those who believe religion and politics aren't connected don't understand either.
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The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton.
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If a man voluntarily allows himself to be crushed, he yields the oil of moral energy which sustains the world.
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Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.
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Truth and nonviolence demand that no human being may debar himself from serving any other human being, no matter how sinful he may be.
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I will not be a traitor of God to please the whole world.
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At the individual level Swaraj is vitally connected with the capacity for dispassionate self-assessment , ceaseless self purification and growing self-reliance.... It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves.
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A duty religiously performed carries with it several other important consequences.
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The goal ever recedes from us. The greater the progress the greater the recognition of our unworthiness. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.
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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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I claim to be no more than an average man with below average capabilities.
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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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My love for nonviolence is superior to every other thing, mundane or super mundane.
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No society can possibly be built upon a denial of individual freedom.It is contrary to the very nature of man. Just as a man will not grow horns or a tail, so will he not exist as man if he has no mind of his own. In reality even those who do not believe in the liberty of the individual believe in their own.