Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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The best way of losing a cause is to abuse your opponent and to trade upon his weakness.
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If there is violence, it will certainly be crushed because violence can only end in a disgraceful rout.
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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.
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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.
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
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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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By its very nature, non-violence cannot ‘seize’ power, nor can that be its goal. But non-violence can do more; it can effectively control and guide power without capturing the machinery of government. That is its beauty.
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All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
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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 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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We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
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If you`d be loved, be worthy to be love.
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Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
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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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It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?
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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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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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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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Appreciation of nonviolence means patient research and still more patient and difficult practice.
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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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As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality. Man, for instance, cannot be untruthful, cruel or incontinent and claim to have God on his side.
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Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.
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Ahimsa calls for the strength and courage to suffer without retaliation, to receive blows without returning any.
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Boycott of foreign cloth through picketing may easily be violent; through the use of khadi it is most natural and absolutely nonviolent.