Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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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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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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But all my life though, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise. I saw in later life that this spirit was an essential part of Satyagraha. It has often meant endangering my life and incurring the displeasure of friends. But truth is hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.
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Withholding of payment of taxes is one of the quickest methods of overthrowing a government.
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By using violence to subjugate one another we are using violence against our own souls.
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I am just not thinking of India's deliverance. It will come, but will it be worth if England and France fall, or if they come out victorious over Germany ruined and humbled?
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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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If the lambs of the world had been willingly led, they would have long ago saved themselves from the butcher's knife.
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Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two. What is obtained by love is retained for all time. What is obtained by hatred proves a burden in reality for it increases hatred." - by Mohandas K. Gandhi -
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My mother would tell me that the shortest cut to purification after the unholy touch was to cancel the touch by touching any Mussalman passing by.
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Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness.
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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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Let us remember that we are all Indians eating Indian grain and salt, and living on the dumb Indian masses.
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I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace.
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Love, otherwise ahimsa, sustains this planet of ours.
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No matter how explicit the pledge, people will turn and twist the text to suit their own purpose.
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I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit alone when the time comes.
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It amazes me to find an intelligent person who fights against something which he does not at all believe exists.
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Moral result can only be produced by moral restraints.
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Change occurs when deeply felt private experiences are given public legitimacy.
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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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Swaraj is our birthright. No one can deprive us of it unless we forfeit it ourselves.
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Where there are millions upon millions of units of idle labour, it is no use thinking of labour-saving devices.