Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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By ahimsa we will be able to save the cow and also win the friendship of the English.
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It will profit you nothing to remember old wrongs and nurse old enmities.
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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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Disobedience, to be civil, implies discipline, thought, care, attention.
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Always believe in your dreams, because if you don't, you'll still have hope.
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Do not crave to know the views of others, nor base your intent thereon. To think independently for yourself is a sign of fearlessness.
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I condemn, for all climes and for all times, secret murders and unfair methods even for a fair cause.
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Between the two, the nationalist and the imperialist, there is no meeting ground.
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It is a first class human tragedy that people of the earth who claim to believe in the message of Jesus, whom they describe as the Prince of Peace, show little of that belief in actual practice.
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A nonviolent person's life is always at the disposal of him who would take it.
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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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My attitude towards the British is one of utter friendliness and respect.
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Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for non-violence. Violence does not mean the emancipation from fear, but discovering the means of combating the cause of fear. Nonviolence, on the other hand, has no cause for fear. The votary of nonviolence has to cultivate the capacity for sacrifice of the highest type in order to be free from fear. He recks not if he should lose his land, his wealth, his life.
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Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government, but that it is also a substitute for violence or armed rebellion.
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Fight if you must on the path of righteousness and God will be with you.
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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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Shraddha means self-confidence and self-confidence means faith in God.
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It's a big error to dream of a society where nobody needs to be good.
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My greatest weapon is mute prayer.
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Those who believe religion and politics aren't connected don't understand either.
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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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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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Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.
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One hour spent in spinning should be an hour of self-development for the spinner.