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 spinning wheel means national consciousness and a contribution by every individual to a definite constructive national work.
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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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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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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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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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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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The message of Jesus has proved ineffective because the environment was unready to receive it.
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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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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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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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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.
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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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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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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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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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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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Poverty is the worst form of violence.
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If you`d be loved, be worthy to be love.
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I may be a despicable person, but when Truth speaks through me I am invincible.
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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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Muslims must realize and admit the wrongs perpetrated under the Islamic rule.
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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.