Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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We are our own slaves, not of the British. This should be engraved on our minds. The whites cannot remain if we do not want them. If the idea is to drive them out with firearms, let every Indian consider what precious little profit Europe has found in these.
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Fight if you must on the path of righteousness and God will be with you.
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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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Bravery on the battlefield is impossible for us. Bravery of the soul still remains open to us.
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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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Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men.
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A courageous man prefers death to the surrender of self-respect.
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The art of dying bravely and with honour does not need any special training, save a living faith in God.
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The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.
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To double your successes, you might have to double your failure rate.
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You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good man will therefore resist an evil system or administration with his whole soul.
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What is equality of rights between a giant and a dwarf?
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Celibacy is a great help, inasmuch as it enables one to lead a life of full surrender to God.
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If I preach against the modern artificial life of sensual enjoyment, and ask men and women to go back to the simple life epitomized in the charkha, I do so because I know that without an intelligent return to simplicity, there is no escape from our d.
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The only way by which you and I can wean orthodox Hindus from their bigotry is by patient argument and correct conduct.
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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
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Love transcends all animosity and is never partial.
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So far as I can see, the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained for ages. There used to be so-called laws of war, which made it tolerable. Now we know the truth. War knows no law except that of might. The atomic bomb brought an empty victory but it resulted for the time being in destroying the soul of Japan. What has happened to the soul of the destroying nation is yet too early to see.
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I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence.
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But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep.
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Mother cow expects from us nothing but grass and grain.
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True democracy is not inconsistent with a few persons representing the spirit, the hope and the aspirations of those whom they claim to represent.
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Islam stands for the unity and brotherhood of mankind, and not for disrupting the oneness of the human family.