Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.
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Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.
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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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Today I know that physical training should have as much place in the curriculum as mental training.
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Hand-spinning is designed to put millions of rupees in the hands of the poor villagers.
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The ally we must cultivate is the part of our enemy which knows the truth.
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He who is ever brooding over result often loses nerve in the performance of his duty.
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In our progress towards the goal, we ever see more and more enchanting scenery.
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In Swaraj, based on ahimsa, people need not know their rights, but it is also necessary for them to know their duties.
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My ahimsa would not tolerate the idea of giving a free meal to a healthy person who has not worked for it in some honest way.
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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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India is less manly under the British rule than she ever was before.
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A great man may not do great things but they do ordinary things greatly.
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Bullies are always to be found where there are cowards.
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Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the government of the day, to do the work of defense for him. A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women.
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Jealousy does not wait for reasons.
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Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity...If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior...If non-violence is the law of our being, the future is with women.
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The world is changing every moment, and is therefore unreal. It has non permanent existence.
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You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.
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I do not want to see the allies defeated. But I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability that is amazing and seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed. Englishmen are showing the strength that Empire builders must have. I expect them to rise much higher than they seem to be doing.
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The most practical, the most dignified way of going on in the world is to take people at their word, when you have no positive reason to the contrary.
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At the moment the British Common-wealth is a Commonwealth of White nation.
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It is derogatory to the dignity of mankind, it is derogatory to the dignity of India, to entertain for one single moment hatred towards Englishmen.
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Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for non-violence. Violence does not mean the emancipation from fear, but discovering the means of combating the cause of fear. Nonviolence, on the other hand, has no cause for fear. The votary of nonviolence has to cultivate the capacity for sacrifice of the highest type in order to be free from fear. He recks not if he should lose his land, his wealth, his life.