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I must declare that it is better for India do discard violence altogether even for defending her borders.
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Exploitation and domination of one nation over another can have no place in a world striving to put an end to all war.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The wind of God's grace is incessantly blowing. Lazy sailors on the sea of life do not take advantage of it. But the active and strong always keep the sails of their minds unfurled to catch the favorable winds and thus reach their destination very soon.
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If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is no independence.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The elephant needs a thousand times more food than the ant but that is not an indication of inequality.
Mahatma Gandhi -
When the panchayat raj is established, public opinion will do what violence can never do.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Truth is as hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The Vedas are as indefinable as God and Hinduism.
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The goal ever recedes from us. The greater the progress the greater the recognition of our unworthiness. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.
Mahatma Gandhi -
It is better to resist oppression by violent means than to submit, but it is best of all to resist by nonviolent means.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Hinduism with its message of ahimsa is to me the most glorious religion in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi -
President means chief servant.
Mahatma Gandhi -
My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism... true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village.
Mahatma Gandhi
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We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him.
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My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all embracing. The conception of my patriotism is nothing if it is not always, in every case, without exception, consistent with the broadest good of humanity at large.
Mahatma Gandhi -
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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A satyagrahi must ceaselessly strive to realize and live truth. And he must never contemplate hurting anyone by thought, word or deed.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The English have taught us that we were not one nation before and that it will reaquire centuries before we become one nation. This is without foundation. We were one nation before they came to India. One thought inspired us. Our mode of life was the same. It was because we were one nation that they were able to establish one kingdom.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I regard untouchability as such a grave sin as to warrant divine chastisement.
Mahatma Gandhi
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There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace.
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There are subjects where reason cannot take us far and we have to accept things on faith. Faith then does not contradict reason but transcends it. Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason.
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The Congress fights not with violent but with nonviolent means, however imperfect, however crude the nonviolence may be.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Cow-slaughter and man-slaughter are in my opinion two sides of the same coin.
Mahatma Gandhi