Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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If we would be pure, if we would save Hinduism, we must rid ourselves of this poison of enforced widowhood.
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Solitude is a catalyst for innovation.
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It is degrading both for man and woman that woman should be called upon or induced to forsake the hearth and shoulder the rifle for the protection of that hearth.
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I hold that the world is sick of armed rebellions.
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Freedom of a nation cannot be won by solitary acts of heroism though they may be of the true type, never by heroism so called.
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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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When you make yourself into zero, your power becomes invincible.
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Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.
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If we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place.
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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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The hater hates not for the sake of hatred but because he wants to drive away from his country the hated being or beings.
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Hinduism has made marvelous discoveries in things of religion, of the spirit, of the soul. We have no eye for these great and fine discoveries. We are dazzled by the material progress that Western science has made. Ancient India has survived because Hinduism was not developed along material but spiritual lines.
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Capital exploits the labour of a few to multiply itself.
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I cannot imagine anything nobler or more national than that for, say, one hour in the day we should all do the labor the poor must do, and thus identify ourselves with them and through them, with all mankind.
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I would, in a sense, certainly assist the Amir of Afghanistan if he waged war against the British Government. That is to say, I would openly tell my countrymen that it would be a crime to help a government which had lost the confidence of the nation to remain in power.
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Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life.
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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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A plea for the spinning wheel is a plea for recognizing the dignity of labour.
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I believe that the civilization India evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by our ancestors, Rome went, Greece shared the same fate; the might of the Pharaohs was broken; Japan has become Westernized; of China nothing can be said; but India is still, somehow or other, sound at the foundation.
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The Gita is not for those who have no faith.
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The press is called the Fourth Estate. It is definitely a power, but, to misuse that power is criminal.
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My creed of nonviolence does not favour the punishment of thieves and dacoits and even murderers.
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I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence.
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Begin your day with prayer, and make it so soulful that it may remain with you until the evening.