Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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.
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The earth has enough resources for our need, but not for our greed.
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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.
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Ahimsa is the height of Kshatriya dharma as it represents the climax of fearlessness.
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I call myself a labourer because I take pride in calling myself a spinner, weaver, farmer and scavenger.
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What is truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the 'voice within' tells you.
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Economic equality is the master-key to nonviolent independence.
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The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.
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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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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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The eternal duel between Ormuzd and Ahriman, God and Satan, is raging in my breast, which is one among their billion battlefields.
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Ethically they had arrived at the conclusion that man's supremacy over lower animals meant not that the former should prey upon the latter, but that the higher should protect the lower, and that there should be mutual aid between the two as between man and man. They had also brought out the truth that man eats not for enjoyment but to live.
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Today I know that physical training should have as much place in the curriculum as mental training.
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If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the present.
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My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all-embracing and I should reject that patriotism which sought to mount the distress or exploitation of other nationalities.
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Mass civil disobedience was for the attainment of independence.
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Untouchability, I hold, is a sin, if Bhagavadgita is one of our Divine Books.
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External fears cease of their own accord when once we have conquered these traitors within the camp.
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Spiritually, compulsory disarmament has made us unmanly, and the presence of an alien army of occupation, employed with deadly effect to crush in us the spirit of resistance, has made us think we cannot look after ourselves or put up a defense against foreign aggression, or even defend our homes and families.
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True love is boundless like the ocean and, swelling within one, spreads itself out and, crossing all boundaries and frontiers, envelops the whole world.
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That religion and that nation will be blotted out of the face of the earth which pins its faith on injustice, untruth or violence.
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The consumption of vegetables involves himsa, but I cannot give them up.
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Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.
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If love wasn't the law of life, life would not have persisted in the midst of death.