Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.
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A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.
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Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.
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There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, i.e. the voice of conscience even though such obedience may cost many a bitter tear, and even more, separation from friends, from family, from the state, to which you may belong, from all that you have held as dear as life itself. For this obedience is the law of our being.
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It is my unshakable belief that India's destiny is to deliver the message of nonviolence to mankind.
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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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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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The moment the cultivators of the soil realize their power, the evil of Zamindari will be sterilized.
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Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.
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It was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it.
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A non-violent revolution is not a program of seizure of power. It is a program of transformation of relationships, ending in a peaceful transfer of power.
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The rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society.
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Like the bee gathering honey from the different flowers, the wise person accepts the essence of the different scriptures and sees only the good in all religions.
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I do not want India to rise on the ruin of other nations.
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Keep my word positive. Words become my behaviors. Keep my behaviors positive. Behaviors become my habits. Keep my habits positive. Habits become my values. Keep my values positive. Values become my destiny.
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Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.
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You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them.
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Today I know that physical training should have as much place in the curriculum as mental training.
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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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The khadi spirit means also an infinite patience.
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[I]t seems to me as clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime.
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In our progress towards the goal, we ever see more and more enchanting scenery.
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Never make a promise in haste.
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I had learnt at the onset not to carry on public work with borrowed money.