Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
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The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy. That State is the best governed which is governed the least.
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Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.
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Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.
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To get Swaraj is to get rid of our helplessness.
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The spinning wheel means national consciousness and a contribution by every individual to a definite constructive national work.
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When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
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The message of Jesus has proved ineffective because the environment was unready to receive it.
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Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law will work just as the law of gravitation works whether we accept it or not.
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Poverty is the worst form of violence.
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.
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Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
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Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
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A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
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The person who discovered the law of love was a far greater scientist than any of our modern scientists. Only our explorations have not gone far enough and so it is not possible for everyone to see all its workings.
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The science of war leads one to dictatorship, pure and simple. The science of non-violence alone can lead one to pure democracy. Power based on love is thousand times more effective and permanent than power derived from fear of punishment. It is a blasphemy to say non-violence can be practiced only by individuals and never by nations which are composed of individuals. The nearest approach to purest anarchy would be a democracy based on non-violence. A society organized and run on the basis of complete non-violence would be the purest anarchy.
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It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us. This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good heart whatever they might have to say.
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If you`d be loved, be worthy to be love.
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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I may be a despicable person, but when Truth speaks through me I am invincible.
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Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help…It makes them spoon-fed.