Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The bomb-throwers have discredited the cause of freedom, in whose name they threw the bombs.
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Just think out for yourselves, if a man who was good yesterday has become bad after having come in contact with me, is he responsible that he has deteriorated or am I? ... It is well to take the blame sometimes.
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One hour spent in spinning should be an hour of self-development for the spinner.
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If we want to cultivate a true spirit of democracy we cannot afford to be intolerant. Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
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Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion.
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The author of the Mahabharata has not established the necessity of physical warfare; on the contrary he has proved its futility.
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One golden rule is to accept the interpretation honestly put on the pledge by the party administering it.
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Surely, conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows His creatures' hearts.
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In a self-respecting India, is not every woman's virtue as much every man's concern as his own sister's?
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Love transcends all animosity and is never partial.
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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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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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If I preach against the modern artificial life of sensual enjoyment, and ask men and women to go back to the simple life epitomized in the charkha, I do so because I know that without an intelligent return to simplicity, there is no escape from our d.
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My own experience but confirms the opinion that the Musalman as a rule is a bully, and the Hindu as rule is a coward.
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Bullies are always to be found where there are cowards.
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In the midst of darkness, light persists.
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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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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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Shraddha means self-confidence and self-confidence means faith in God.
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My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism... true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village.
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The restoration of free speech, free association and free press is almost the whole Swaraj.
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Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness.
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All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.
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Where there is truth, there also is knowledge which is true.