Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Well, India is a country of nonsense.
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Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy.
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My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all embracing. The conception of my patriotism is nothing if it is not always, in every case, without exception, consistent with the broadest good of humanity at large.
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It was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it.
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Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time. I must continue to bear testimony to truth even if I am forsaken by all. Mine may today be a voice in the wilderness, but it will be heard when all other voices are silenced, if it is the voice of 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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Let our first act each morning be the following resolve: I shall not fear anyone on Earth. I shall fear only God.
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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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A soldier fights with an irresistible strength when he has blown up his bridges and burnt his boats. Even so, it is with a soldier of ahimsa.
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There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid.
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The real test of nonviolence lies in its being brought in contact with those who have contempt for it.
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Between the two, the nationalist and the imperialist, there is no meeting ground.
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It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to speak impromptu. I hesitated whenever I had to face strange audiences and avoided making a speech whenever I could. Even today I do not think I could or would even be inclined to keep a meeting of friends engaged in idle talk.
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The satyagrahi strives to reach reason through the heart. The method of reaching the heart is to awaken public opinion.
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So far as I can see the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained mankind for ages.
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Truth, purity, self-control, firmness, fearlessness, humility, unity, peace, and renunciation - these are the inherent qualities of a civil resister.
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A satyagrahi is sometimes bound to use language which is capable of two meanings, provided both the meanings are obvious and necessary and there is no intention to deceive anyone.
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Hinduism with its message of ahimsa is to me the most glorious religion in the world.
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Nowhere in the world would you find such skeletons of cows and bullocks as you do in our cow-worshipping India.
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Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence.
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Detachment is not indifference. it is the prerequisite for effective involvement. Often what we think is best for others is distorted by our attachments to our opinions. We want others to be happy in the way we think they should be happy. It is only when we want nothing for ourselves that we are able to see clearly into others needs and understand how to serve them.
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My only sanction is the love and affection in which you hold me. But it has its weaknesses, as it has its strengths.
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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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A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.