Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Swaraj is not a product of excitement or intoxication. Swaraj will be the natural and inevitable result of business like habits.
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If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.
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It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine.
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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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Jealousy does not wait for reasons.
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Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be.
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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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Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.
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Personally I like to believe that all become honest, the millennium is round the corner!
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The cry for the national home for the Jews does not make much appeal to me. The sanction for it is sought in the Bible and the tenacity with which the Jews have hankered after return to Palestine. Why should they not, like other peoples of the earth, make that country their home where they are born and where they earn their livelihood?
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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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Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realise what a tremendous advantage she has over man.
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Rama, Allah and God are to me convertible terms.
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Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. That strength may be physical or of the heart or, if we do not fight shy of the word, of the spirit. Strength of the heart connotes soul-force. Let it be remembered that physical force is transitory, even as the body is transitory. But the power of spirit is permanent even as the spirit is everlasting.
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Be congruent, be authentic, be your true self.
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When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from within.
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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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It was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it.
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The ally we must cultivate is the part of our enemy which knows the truth.
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There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace.
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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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Where there is fear there is no religion.
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Roving dogs do not indicate the civilisation or compassion of the society. They betray on the country the ignorance and lethargy of its members.
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Prayer is no mere exercise of words or of the ears, it is no mere repetition of empty formula.