Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Shraddha means self-confidence and self-confidence means faith in God.
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To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that being but with him, the whole world.
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The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.
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The khadi spirit means also an infinite patience.
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My only sanction is the love and affection in which you hold me. But it has its weaknesses, as it has its strengths.
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It is not part of religion to breed buffaloes or, for that matter, cows.
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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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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment.
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The measure of a society can be how well its people treat its animals.
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I recall having read, at the brothers' instance, Madame Blavatsky's Key to Theosophy. This book stimulated in me the desire to read books on Hinduism, and disabused me of the notion fostered by the missionaries that Hinduism was rife with superstition.
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Surely, conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows His creatures' hearts.
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No country can become a nation by producing a race of imitators.
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A genuine fast cleanses the body, mind and soul. It crucifies the flesh and to that extent sets the soul free.
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Disobedience, to be civil, implies discipline, thought, care, attention.
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Fear has its use, but cowardice has none. I may not put my finger into the jaws of a snake, but the very sight of the snake need not strike terror into me.
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The religion of nonviolence is not meant merely for therishis and saints.
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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 have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence.
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If the circulation of blood theory could not have been discovered without vivisection, the human kind could well have done without it.
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Fight if you must on the path of righteousness and God will be with you.
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There is no better way of industrializing the villages of India than the spinning wheel.
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I would, in a sense, certainly assist the Amir of Afghanistan if he waged war against the British Government. That is to say, I would openly tell my countrymen that it would be a crime to help a government which had lost the confidence of the nation to remain in power.
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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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Those who know how to think need no teachers.