Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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A satyagrahi is dead to his body even before the enemy attempts to kill him.
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To me Truth is God and there is no way to find Truth except the way of nonviolence.
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There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid.
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President means chief servant.
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Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world; but to change ourselves.
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Truth should be the very breath of our life. When once this state in the pilgrim's progress is reached, all other rules of correct living will come without any effort, and obedience to them will be instinctive.
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Often does good come out of evil. But that is God's, not man's plan.
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Carrying arms for the removal of the Arms Act can never fall under any scheme of nonviolence.
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The spinning wheel is not meant to oust a single man or woman from his or her occupation.
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Humankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence. Hatred can be overcome only by love. Counter - hatred only increases the surface as well as the depth of hatred.
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There is no god higher than truth.
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Of all the animal creations of God, main is the only animal who has been created in order that he may know his Maker. Man's aim is life is not therefore to add from day to day to his material prospects and to his material possessions, but his predominant calling is, from day to day to come nearer to his own Maker.
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Capital exploits the labour of a few to multiply itself.
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Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence.
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You can judge a society by the way it treats it's animals.
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Seeming failure is not of the law of satyagrahabut of incompetence of the satyagrahi by whatever cause induced.
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The sky may be overcast today with clouds, but a fervent prayer to God is enough to dispel them.
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Whilst I may not actually help anyone to retaliate, I must not let a coward seek shelter behind nonviolence so-called. Not knowing the stuff of which nonviolence is made, many have honestly believed that running away from danger every time was a virtue compared to offering resistance, especially when it was fraught with danger to one's life. As a teacher of nonviolence I must, so far as it is possible for me, guard against such an unmanly belief.
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It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves.
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The central fact of Hinduism is cow protection.
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Let the content of Swaraj grow with the growth of national consciousness and aspirations.
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To my mind the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.
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With my meager knowledge of my own religion I do not want to belong to any religious body.
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A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.