Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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All true art must help the soul to realize its inner self.
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My greatest weapon is mute prayer.
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In reality there are as many religions as there are individuals.
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For me, humanitarian service, or rather service of all that lives, is religion. And I draw no distinction between such religion and politics.
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Justice does not help those who slumber but helps only those who are vigilant.
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The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind.
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Fight if you must on the path of righteousness and God will be with you.
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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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Social service that savours of patronage is not service.
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I suggest that, if India is to evolve along nonviolent lines, it will have to decentralize many things. Centralization cannot be sustained and defended without adequate force . . .Centralization as a system is inconsistent with non-violent structure of society.
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Nirvana is the utter extinction of all that is base in us, all that is vicious in us. Nirvana is not like the black, dead peace of the grave, but the living peace, the living happiness of a soul which is conscious of itself and conscious of having found its own abode in the heart of the Eternal.
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As soon as we become one with the ocean in the shape of God, there is no more rest for us, nor indeed do we need rest any longer.
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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 religion of nonviolence is not meant merely for therishis and saints.
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A teacher who establishes rapport with the taught, becomes one with them, learns more from them than he teaches them. He who learns nothing from his disciples is, in my opinion, worthless. Whenever I talk with someone I learn from him. I take from him more than I give him.
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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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On India rests the burden of pointing the way to all the exploited races of the earth.
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I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it . . .
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A courageous man prefers death to the surrender of self-respect.
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Between the two, the nationalist and the imperialist, there is no meeting ground.
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A seeker of truth will never begin by discounting his opponent's statement as unworthy of trust.
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Complete non-violence is complete absence of ill-will against all that lives. It therefore embraces even sub-human life, not excluding noxious insects and beasts. They have not been created to feed our destructive propensities. If we only knew the mind of the Creator, we should find their proper place in His creation.
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If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further.
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Always believe in your dreams, because if you don't, you'll still have hope.