Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Your action expresses your priorities.
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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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Prayer is a sign of repentance, a desire to become better, purer.
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Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government, but that it is also a substitute for violence or armed rebellion.
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Mr. Gandhi, you have been working fifteen hours a day for fifty years. Don't you think you should take a vacation?" Gandhi smiled and replied, "I am always on vacation.
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Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.
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My greatest weapon is mute prayer.
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If you do what you enjoy doing you'll never have to work hard.
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Unless our hands go hand in hand with our heads, we will be able to do nothing whatsoever.
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To remove untouchability is a penance that caste Hindus owe to Hinduism and to themselves.
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A rabbit that runs away from the bull-terrier is not particularly non-violent.
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True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind.
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The only thing lawful is non-violence. Violence can never be lawful in the sense meant here, i.e., not according to man-made laws, but according to the laws made by Nature for man.
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The hater hates not for the sake of hatred but because he wants to drive away from his country the hated being or beings.
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If Swaraj is to be had by peaceful methods, it will only be attained by attention to every little detail of national life.
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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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Shraddha means self-confidence and self-confidence means faith in God.
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Love can never express itself by imposing sufferings on others. It can only express itself by self-suffering, by self-purification.
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Tolerance gives us spiritual insight, which is as far from fanaticism as the north pole is from the south.
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I claim to be no more than an average man with below average capabilities.
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Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave.
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I suggest that, if India is to evolve along nonviolent lines, it will have to decentralize many things. Centralization cannot be sustained and defended without adequate force . . .Centralization as a system is inconsistent with non-violent structure of society.
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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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Do not crave to know the views of others, nor base your intent thereon. To think independently for yourself is a sign of fearlessness.