Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The sky may be overcast today with clouds, but a fervent prayer to God is enough to dispel them.
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There is no such thing as 'Gandhism', and I do not want to leave any sect after me.
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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 mentality which made one section of the Indians look upon another as enemies was suicidal; it could only serve to perpetuate their slavery.
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There are subjects where reason cannot take us far and we have to accept things on faith. Faith then does not contradict reason but transcends it. Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason.
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My love of nationalism is that my country may become free, and if need be, the whole of the country die, so that the human race may live.
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The real meaning of economic equality is "To each according to his need."
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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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Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes.
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Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind.
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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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To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that being but with him, the whole world.
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Non-co-operation and civil disobedience in terms of Swaraj are not to be thought of without substantial constructive effort.
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Freedom of worship, even of public speech, would become a farce if interference became the order of the day.
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If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide.
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Hitler killed five million Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher's knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs. As it is, they succumbed anyway in their millions.
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Truth is God, and Truth overrides all our plans. The whole Truth is only embodied within the heart of Great Power-Truth.
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Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.
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No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation.
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The renunciation of the Gita is the acid test of faith.
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Prayer presupposes faith. No prayer is in vain. Prayer is like any other action.
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The wind of God's grace is incessantly blowing. Lazy sailors on the sea of life do not take advantage of it. But the active and strong always keep the sails of their minds unfurled to catch the favorable winds and thus reach their destination very soon.
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Non-cooperation means refusal both to help the sinner in his sin and not to accept any help or gift from him till he has repented.
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It would conduce to national progress and save a great deal of time and trouble if we cultivated the habit of never supporting the resolutions either by speaking or voting for them if we had not either the intention or the ability to carry them out.