Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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It only confirms me in my belief that there is no Swaraj without a settlement with the Mussalmans.
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Even if masses of people were to burn khadi publicly and say that it is an insane programme, I will declare that those people have gone mad.
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Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing letters, etc.
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Of what avail is my love if it be only so long as I trust my friend?
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It will profit you nothing to remember old wrongs and nurse old enmities.
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The Indian struggle is not anti-British, it is anti-exploitation, anti-foreign rule, not anti-foreigners.
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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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Truth is self-evident, nonviolence is its maturest fruit. It is contained in truth, but is not self-evident.
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A satyagrahi is sometimes bound to use language which is capable of two meanings, provided both the meanings are obvious and necessary and there is no intention to deceive anyone.
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If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done.
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Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world; but to change ourselves.
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It hurts me to think that people in their rush for everything modern despise all their ancient traditions and ignore them in their lives.
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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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On India rests the burden of pointing the way to all the exploited races of the earth.
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Repression does for a true man or a nation what fire does for gold.
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Urbanization in India is a slow but sure death for her villages and villagers.
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Celebration of Independence Day with great pomp and show was quite appropriate when we were fighting for independence which we had neither seen nor handled. Now we have handled it and we seem to be disillusioned. At least - I am, even if you are not. What are we celebrating today? Surely, not our disillusionment.
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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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My own experience but confirms the opinion that the Musalman as a rule is a bully, and the Hindu as rule is a coward.
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The Charkha supplemented the agriculture of the villagers and gave it dignity.
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Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave.
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Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes.
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It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves.
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Seeming failure is not of the law of satyagrahabut of incompetence of the satyagrahi by whatever cause induced.