Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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It is a first class human tragedy that people of the earth who claim to believe in the message of Jesus, whom they describe as the Prince of Peace, show little of that belief in actual practice.
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Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.
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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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Though violence is not lawful, when it is offered in self-defense or for the defense of the defenseless, it is an act of bravery far better than cowardly submission. The latter befits neither man nor woman. Under violence, there are many stages and varieties of bravery. Every man must judge this for himself. No other person can or has the right.
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I am not fighting machinery as such, but the madness of thinking that machinery saves labor. Men save labor until thousands of them are without work and die of hunger on the streets. I want to secure employment and livelihood not only to part of the human race, but for all. I will not have the enrichment of a few at the expense of the community. At present the machine is helping a small minority to live on the exploitation of the masses. The motive force of this minority is not humanity or love of their kind, but greed and avarice.
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The line of demarcation between democracy and monocracy is often thin, but rigid and stronger than unbreakable steel.
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Enter with me into the sufferings, not only of the people of India but of the whole world. Nonviolence is a more active and real fight against wickedness than retaliation whose very nature is to increase wickedness. It is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.
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The real love is to love them that hate you, to love your neighbor even though you distrust him.
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My attitude towards the British is one of utter friendliness and respect.
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Marriage is not an act of services. It is a comfort man or woman seeks for himself or herself.
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Often does good come out of evil. But that is God's, not man's plan.
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Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.
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I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world. I believe that they are all God- given and I believe that they were necessary for the people to whom these religions were revealed. And I believe that if only we could all of us read the scriptures of the different faiths from the standpoints of the followers of these faiths, we should find that they were at bottom all one and were all helpful to one another.
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Let the content of Swaraj grow with the growth of national consciousness and aspirations.
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Was it that you wanted to pull my leg by transporting me to the frozen Himalayan heights of 'mahatmaship' and claiming for yourself absolution from having to follow my precepts?
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Languages proclaim that woman is half of man, and by parity of reasoning, man is half of woman.
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My whole soul rebels against the idea that Hinduism and Islam represent two antagonistic cultures and doctrines.
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Once Jesus had blazed the trail, his twelve disciples could carry on his mission without his presence.
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Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.
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Heroes are made in the hour of defeat.
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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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Between the two, the nationalist and the imperialist, there is no meeting ground.
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A rabbit that runs away from the bull-terrier is not particularly non-violent.
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The satyagrahi should not have any hatred in his heart against the opponent.