Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.
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The restoration of free speech, free association and free press is almost the whole Swaraj.
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Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly.
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Hinduism has made marvelous discoveries in things of religion, of the spirit, of the soul. We have no eye for these great and fine discoveries. We are dazzled by the material progress that Western science has made. Ancient India has survived because Hinduism was not developed along material but spiritual lines.
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I condemn, for all climes and for all times, secret murders and unfair methods even for a fair cause.
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Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.
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Repression does for a true man or a nation what fire does for gold.
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A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.
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The khadi spirit means also an infinite patience.
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Where there is fear there is no religion.
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All our philosophy is as dry as dust if it is not immediately translated into some act of living service.
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To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act.
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What I want to achieve, what I have been striving and pining for these thirty years, is self-realization, that is, to see God face to face.
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Any action that is dictated by fear or by coercion of any kind ceases to be moral.
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The world cannot be successfully fooled for all time.
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If you're going to be a bear, be a grizzly.
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My Hinduism must be a very poor thing if it cannot flourish even under the most adverse influence.
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Harshness is conquered by gentleness, hatred by love, lethargy by zeal and darkness by light.
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The wind of God's grace is incessantly blowing. Lazy sailors on the sea of life do not take advantage of it. But the active and strong always keep the sails of their minds unfurled to catch the favorable winds and thus reach their destination very soon.
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It is a first class human tragedy that people of the earth who claim to believe in the message of Jesus, whom they describe as the Prince of Peace, show little of that belief in actual practice.
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The spinning wheel is the auspicious symbol of sharir yajna, body labour.
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If untouchability is an integral part of Hinduism, the latter is a spent bullet.
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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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I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest good of the greatest number. The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all.