Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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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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Is it not possible for us all to realize that the masses will never mount to freedom through murder?
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Truth is as hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.
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Heroes are made in the hour of defeat.
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Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence.
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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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The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind.
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Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.
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Urbanization in India is a slow but sure death for her villages and villagers.
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Religion should be dearer than life itself.
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Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts.
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I do not want India to rise on the ruin of other nations.
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My satyagrahi spirit tells me that I may not retaliate.
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Be congruent, be authentic, be your true self.
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To my mind the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.
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The fragrance of religious and spiritual life is much finer and subtler than that of the rose.
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You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.
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Nirvana is the utter extinction of all that is base in us, all that is vicious in us. Nirvana is not like the black, dead peace of the grave, but the living peace, the living happiness of a soul which is conscious of itself and conscious of having found its own abode in the heart of the Eternal.
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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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Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used.
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I regard Duryodhana and his party as the baser impulses in man, and Arjuna and his party as the higher impulses.
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One golden rule is to accept the interpretation honestly put on the pledge by the party administering it.
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I have not hesitated to call the system of Government under which we are labouring 'satanic' and I withdraw naught out of it.