Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
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In a nonviolent army, the general and the officers are elected, or are as if elected, when their authority is moral and rests solely on the willing obedience of the rank and file.
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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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True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind.
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When untouchability is rooted out, these distinctions will vanish and no one will consider himself superior to any other.
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But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep.
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A rabbit that runs away from the bull-terrier is not particularly non-violent.
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It's a big error to dream of a society where nobody needs to be good.
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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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Always believe in your dreams, because if you don't, you'll still have hope.
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I suggest that, if India is to evolve along nonviolent lines, it will have to decentralize many things. Centralization cannot be sustained and defended without adequate force . . .Centralization as a system is inconsistent with non-violent structure of society.
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If you do what you enjoy doing you'll never have to work hard.
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Impure means result in an impure end… One cannot reach truth by untruthfulness. Truthful conduct alone can reach Truth.
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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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My greatest weapon is mute prayer.
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The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die.
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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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If the circulation of blood theory could not have been discovered without vivisection, the human kind could well have done without it.
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Is it not possible for us all to realize that the masses will never mount to freedom through murder?
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Truthful movements spontaneously attract to themselves all manner of pure and disinterested help.
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I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit alone when the time comes.
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Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the government of the day, to do the work of defense for him. A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women.
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Fight if you must on the path of righteousness and God will be with you.