Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Religions are different roads converging on the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal? I believe that all religions of the world are true more or less. I say "more or less" because I believe that everything the human hand touches, by reason of the very fact that human beings are imperfect, becomes imperfect.
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We are our own slaves, not of the British. This should be engraved on our minds. The whites cannot remain if we do not want them. If the idea is to drive them out with firearms, let every Indian consider what precious little profit Europe has found in these.
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If you are left with only one piece of homespun,wear it with dignity.
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All true art must help the soul to realize its inner self.
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The khadi spirit means also an infinite patience.
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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 is necessary first to purify the drunken and dissolute worshippers in charge of some of these temples.
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While everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates.... For I can see in the midst of death, life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.
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A courageous man prefers death to the surrender of self-respect.
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It is a travesty of true religion to consider one's own religion as superior and other's as inferior.
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If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth, you must reduce yourself to a zero.
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It will profit you nothing to remember old wrongs and nurse old enmities.
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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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Sorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily borne, but not if they are imposed.
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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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Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin.
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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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One hour spent in spinning should be an hour of self-development for the spinner.
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If Swaraj is to be had by peaceful methods, it will only be attained by attention to every little detail of national life.
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Social service that savours of patronage is not service.
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It is not part of religion to breed buffaloes or, for that matter, cows.
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Hand-spinning is designed to put millions of rupees in the hands of the poor villagers.
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Shraddha means self-confidence and self-confidence means faith in God.
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I am not conscious of a single experience throughout my three months' stay in England and Europe that made me feel that after all East is East and West is West. On the contrary, I have been convinced more than ever that human nature is much the same, no matter under what clime it flourishes, and that if you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold affection returned to you.