Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Good travels at a snail's pace. Those who want to do good are not selfish, they are not in a hurry, they know that to impregnate people with good requires a long time.
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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 nonviolence.
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In the dictionary of Satyagraha, there is no enemy.
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Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.
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The khadi spirit means also an infinite patience.
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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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Purification is never for the selfishly idle, it accrues only to the selflessly industrious.
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Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion.
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Hindu-Muslim unity, khaddar and removal of untouchability are to me the foundation of Swaraj.
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Love transcends all animosity and is never partial.
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Jealousy does not wait for reasons.
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Never make a promise in haste.
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I suggest that we are thieves in a way. If I take anything that I do not need for my own immediate use, and keep it, I thieve it from somebody else. ... Nature produces enough for our wants from day to day, and if only every-body took enough for himself and nothing more, there would be no pauperism in this world, there would be no man dying of starvation in this world. But so long as we have got this inequality, so long we are thieving.
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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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Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.
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I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage-an inexorable demand-that we should cease to kill our fellow-creatures for satisfaction of our bodily wants.
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What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated? What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy. What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals? The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Non-cooperation with evil is a sacred duty.
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Naked violence repels like the naked skeleton shorn of flesh, blood and the velvety skin.
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The cause is everything. Those even who are dearest to us must be shunted for the sake of the cause.
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The only thing lawful is non-violence. Violence can never be lawful in the sense meant here, i.e., not according to man-made laws, but according to the laws made by Nature for man.
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I will not be a traitor of God to please the whole world.
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Those who know how to think need no teachers.
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Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.
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True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it.