Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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On India rests the burden of pointing the way to all the exploited races of the earth.
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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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Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.
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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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Though violence is not lawful, when it is offered in self-defense or for the defense of the defenseless, it is an act of bravery far better than cowardly submission. The latter befits neither man nor woman. Under violence, there are many stages and varieties of bravery. Every man must judge this for himself. No other person can or has the right.
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A duty religiously performed carries with it several other important consequences.
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Running away for fear of death, leaving one's dear ones, temples or music to take care of themselves, is irreligion; it is cowardice.
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Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.
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A slave-holder cannot hold a slave without putting himself or his deputy in the cage for holding the slave.
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Worship or prayer is not to be performed with the lips, but with the heart.
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The ally we must cultivate is the part of our enemy which knows the truth.
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Behind my non-cooperation there is always the keenest desire to cooperate on the slightest pretext even with the worst of opponents. To me, a very imperfect mortal, ever in need of God's grace, no one is beyond redemption.
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So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.
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Cow protection means protection of the weak, the helpless, the dumb and the deaf.
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Even as satyagraha is a weapon unique of its kind and not one of the ordinary weapons used by people, so is Khadi, a unique article of commerce which will not, cannot, succeed on terms common to other articles.
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My only sanction is the love and affection in which you hold me. But it has its weaknesses, as it has its strengths.
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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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Humankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence. Hatred can be overcome only by love. Counter - hatred only increases the surface as well as the depth of hatred.
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We, the English educated Indians, often unconsciously make the terrible mistake of thinking that the microscopic minority of the English-speaking Indians is the whole of India.
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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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All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.
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In reality there are as many religions as there are individuals.
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Non-cooperation in itself is unnatural, vicious and sinful.