Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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 world cannot be successfully fooled for all time.
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Swaraj is our birthright. No one can deprive us of it unless we forfeit it ourselves.
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Those who know how to think need no teachers.
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There are sufficient resources on this planet to answer the needs of all, but not enough to satisfy everyone's greed.
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Rama, Allah and God are to me convertible terms.
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Purification is never for the selfishly idle, it accrues only to the selflessly industrious.
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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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Anything which is a hindrance to the fight of the soul is a delusion and a snare, even like the body which often does hinder you in the path of salvation.
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Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood.
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We are too near the scene of tragedy to realize that this canker or untouchability has traveled far beyond its prescribed limits and has sapped the very foundation of the whole nation.
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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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I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts. A thoughtless word hardly ever escaped my tongue or pen. Experience has taught me that silence is part of the spiritual discipline of a votary of truth. We find so many people impatient to talk. All this talking can hardly be said to be of any benefit to the world. It is so much waste of time. My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.
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I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.
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The rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society.
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Roving dogs do not indicate the civilisation or compassion of the society. They betray on the country the ignorance and lethargy of its members.
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The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton.
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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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What is equality of rights between a giant and a dwarf?
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My Swaraj will be not be a result of murder of others but a voluntary act of continuous self-sacrifice.
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If India adopted the doctrine of love as an active part of her religion and introduced it in her politics. Swaraj would descend upon India from heaven. But I am painfully aware that that event is far off as yet.
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My effort should never be to undermine another's faith but to make him a better follower of his own faith.
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It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine.
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I had learnt at the onset not to carry on public work with borrowed money.