Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Untouchability, I hold, is a sin, if Bhagavadgita is one of our Divine Books.
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I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage-an inexorable demand-that we should cease to kill our fellow-creatures for satisfaction of our bodily wants.
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It is not part of religion to breed buffaloes or, for that matter, cows.
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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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Harshness is conquered by gentleness, hatred by love, lethargy by zeal and darkness by light.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment.
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We are our own slaves, not of the British. This should be engraved on our minds. The whites cannot remain if we do not want them. If the idea is to drive them out with firearms, let every Indian consider what precious little profit Europe has found in these.
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The Gita is not for those who have no faith.
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To a hungry man, a piece of bread is the face of God.
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A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate.
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It is my unshakable belief that India's destiny is to deliver the message of nonviolence to mankind.
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If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth, you must reduce yourself to a zero.
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Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion.
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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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I believe that just as everyone inherits a particular form so does he inherit the particular characteristics and qualities of his progenitors, and to make this admission is to conserve one's energy.
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To say that God permits evil in the world may not be pleasing to the ear. But if He is held responsible for the good, it follows that He has to be responsible for the evil too.
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It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves.
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How can I make difference so that I may bring peace to this world that I love and cherish so much? A name flickers instantly in my mind.
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In reality there are as many religions as there are individuals.
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The duty of motherhood, which the vast majority of woman will always undertake, requires the qualities which men need not possess.
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The religion of nonviolence is not meant merely for therishis and saints.
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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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Truthful movements spontaneously attract to themselves all manner of pure and disinterested help.
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Enter with me into the sufferings, not only of the people of India but of the whole world. Nonviolence is a more active and real fight against wickedness than retaliation whose very nature is to increase wickedness. It is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.