Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The restoration of spinning to its central place in India's peaceful campaign for deliverance from the imperial yoke gives her women a special status.
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Religion is no test of nationality, but a personal matter between man and his God.
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What I want to achieve, what I have been striving and pining for these thirty years, is self-realization, that is, to see God face to face.
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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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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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A satyagrahi is dead to his body even before the enemy attempts to kill him.
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War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing.
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Nanda broke down every barrier and won his way to freedom not by brag, not by bluster, but by the purest form of self-suffering.
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Self-suppression is often necessary in the interest of truth and nonviolence.
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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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The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall see Truth in fragment and from different angles of vision.
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Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin.
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There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace.
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The Law and the Lawgiver are one.
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The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.
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The platform of services is as big as the world. It is never overcrowded.
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He is no God who merely satisfies the intellect, if He ever does.
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Vegetarians should have that moral basis-that a man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows.
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To see the universal and all – pervading Spirit of Truth face to face, one must be able to love the meanest of all creation as oneself.
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I find that we are all such sinners that it is better to leave the judging to God.
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A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.
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The secret of a happy life lies in renunciation. Renunciation is life.
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A clean confession combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest type of repentance.
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The fragrance of nonviolence was never sweeter than it was today amidst the stink of violence of the most cowardly type that was being displayed in the cities of India.