Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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The spinning wheel means national consciousness and a contribution by every individual to a definite constructive national work.
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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
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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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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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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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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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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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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.
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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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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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Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
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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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Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
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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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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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If you`d be loved, be worthy to be love.
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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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Muslims must realize and admit the wrongs perpetrated under the Islamic rule.
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Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
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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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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.