Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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A man who is swayed by negative emotions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.
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The consumption of vegetables involves himsa, but I cannot give them up.
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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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The pure love of one soul can offset the hatred of millions.
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Though violence is not lawful, when it is offered in self-defense or for the defense of the defenseless, it is an act of bravery far better than cowardly submission. The latter befits neither man nor woman. Under violence, there are many stages and varieties of bravery. Every man must judge this for himself. No other person can or has the right.
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In the midst of darkness, light persists.
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Spiritually, compulsory disarmament has made us unmanly, and the presence of an alien army of occupation, employed with deadly effect to crush in us the spirit of resistance, has made us think we cannot look after ourselves or put up a defense against foreign aggression, or even defend our homes and families.
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Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.
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All the religions of the world describe God pre-eminently as the Friend of the friendless, Help of the helpless, and Protector of the weak.
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External fears cease of their own accord when once we have conquered these traitors within the camp.
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The eternal duel between Ormuzd and Ahriman, God and Satan, is raging in my breast, which is one among their billion battlefields.
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I had learnt at the onset not to carry on public work with borrowed money.
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Is it not possible for us all to realize that the masses will never mount to freedom through murder?
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If love wasn't the law of life, life would not have persisted in the midst of death.
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To ignore the Mussalman grievance as if it was not felt is to postpone Swaraj.
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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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Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.
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The spinning wheel is not meant to oust a single man or woman from his or her occupation.
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Ahimsa and Truth are my two lungs. I cannot live without them.
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The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die.
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Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads, so long as we reach the same goal. Wherein is the cause for quarreling?
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Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.
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Islam stands for the unity and brotherhood of mankind, and not for disrupting the oneness of the human family.
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You can't shake hands with a closed fist.