Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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There is no better way of industrializing the villages of India than the spinning wheel.
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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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Worship or prayer is not to be performed with the lips, but with the heart.
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The line of demarcation between democracy and monocracy is often thin, but rigid and stronger than unbreakable steel.
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Rama, Allah and God are to me convertible terms.
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To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act.
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Social service that savours of patronage is not service.
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Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men.
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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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I have nothing of the communalist in me because my Hinduism is all inclusive.
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Satyagraha is an attribute of the spirit within.
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Freedom from all attachment is the realization of God as Truth.
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Mother cow expects from us nothing but grass and grain.
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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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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. Without interrelation with society he cannot realize his oneness with the universe or suppress his egotism. His social interdependence enables him to test his faith and to prove himself on the touchstone of reality.
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Khadi to me is the symbol of unity of Indian humanity, of its economic freedom and equality and, therefore, ultimately, in the poetic expression of Jawaharlal Nehru, 'the livery of India's freedom'.
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If India adopted the doctrine of love as an active part of her religion and introduced it in her politics. Swaraj would descend upon India from heaven. But I am painfully aware that that event is far off as yet.
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You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good man will therefore resist an evil system or administration with his whole soul.
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Your action expresses your priorities.
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There are no good-byes, where ever you'll be, you'll be in my heart.
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To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice.
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Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.
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Ahimsa and Truth are my two lungs. I cannot live without them.
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Non-cooperation in itself is unnatural, vicious and sinful.