Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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My love of nationalism is that my country may become free, and if need be, the whole of the country die, so that the human race may live.
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Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.
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I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world. I believe that they are all God- given and I believe that they were necessary for the people to whom these religions were revealed. And I believe that if only we could all of us read the scriptures of the different faiths from the standpoints of the followers of these faiths, we should find that they were at bottom all one and were all helpful to one another.
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If we would be pure, if we would save Hinduism, we must rid ourselves of this poison of enforced widowhood.
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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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Where there are millions upon millions of units of idle labour, it is no use thinking of labour-saving devices.
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If we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place.
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Always believe in your dreams, because if you don't, you'll still have hope.
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The Gita is not for those who have no faith.
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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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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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Non-cooperation in itself is unnatural, vicious and sinful.
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The primary object of non-cooperation is nowhere stated to be paralysis of the Government. The primary object is self-purification.
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Disobedience, to be civil, implies discipline, thought, care, attention.
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A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.
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It is not my purpose to attempt a real autobiography. I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.
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The central fact of Hinduism is cow protection.
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My whole soul rebels against the idea that Hinduism and Islam represent two antagonistic cultures and doctrines.
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I am just not thinking of India's deliverance. It will come, but will it be worth if England and France fall, or if they come out victorious over Germany ruined and humbled?
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I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people.
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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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Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.
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Satyagraha is an attribute of the spirit within.
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A slave has not the freedom even to do the right thing.