Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I do not want India to rise on the ruin of other nations.
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I am wedded to India because I owe my all to her.
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There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace.
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The use of soul-force for turning stones into bread would have been considered, as it is still considered, as black magic.
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If the Commander-in-Chief will look beyond the defence forces, he will discover that the real India is not military but peace-loving.
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My dharma teaches me to give my life for the sake of others without even attempting to kill.
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I know of no religion or sect that has done or is doing without a house of God, variously described as a temple, a mosque, a church, a synagogue or agiary.
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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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Love in the sense of ahimsa has only a limited number of votaries in the world.
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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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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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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. Without interrelation with society he cannot realize his oneness with the universe or suppress his egotism. His social interdependence enables him to test his faith and to prove himself on the touchstone of reality.
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The Law and the Lawgiver are one.
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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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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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A devotee of Rama may be said to be the same as the steadfast one (sthitaprajnya) of the Gita.
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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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The way of peace is the way of truth. Truthfulness is even more important than peacefulness.
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Ahimsa and Truth are my two lungs. I cannot live without them.
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Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave.
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The hater hates not for the sake of hatred but because he wants to drive away from his country the hated being or beings.
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It will profit you nothing to remember old wrongs and nurse old enmities.
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All true art must help the soul to realize its inner self.
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If you are left with only one piece of homespun,wear it with dignity.