Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Without living Truth, God is nowhere.
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What is truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the 'voice within' tells you.
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I would rather have India reduced to a state of pauperism than have thousands of drunkards in our midst.
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Tolerance gives us spiritual insight, which is as far from fanaticism as the north pole is from the south.
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My religion is a matter solely between my Maker and myself.
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Urbanization in India is a slow but sure death for her villages and villagers.
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Far more indispensable then food for the physical body is spiritual nourishment for the soul. One can do without food for a considerable time, but a man of the spirit cannot exist for a single second without spiritual nourishment.
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Hinduism has made marvelous discoveries in things of religion, of the spirit, of the soul. We have no eye for these great and fine discoveries. We are dazzled by the material progress that Western science has made. Ancient India has survived because Hinduism was not developed along material but spiritual lines.
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Those who believe religion and politics aren't connected don't understand either.
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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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I believe that a party wishing equality for India does exist in Britain. But it is an insignificant minority, and while I honour and like their opinion I cannot be enthused over it, for I know that those who shape policy and dominate are otherwise inclined. For me, therefore, it is only the Secretary of State who counts.
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Even if masses of people were to burn khadi publicly and say that it is an insane programme, I will declare that those people have gone mad.
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There is no such thing as slow freedom. Freedom is like a birth. Till we are fully free we are slaves.
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Capital exploits the labour of a few to multiply itself.
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Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life.
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A genuine fast cleanses the body, mind and soul. It crucifies the flesh and to that extent sets the soul free.
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If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the present.
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That atomic energy though harnessed by American scientists and army men for destructive purposes may be utilised by other scientists for humanitarian purposes is undoubtedly within the realm of possibility. ... An incendiary uses fire for his destructive and nefarious purpose, a housewife makes daily use of it in preparing nourishing food for mankind.
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If there was any teacher in the world who insisted upon the inexorable law of cause and effect, it was Gautam, and yet my friends, the Buddhists outside India, would, if they could, avoid the effects of their own acts.
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The foundation of service and your real training lie in spinning khaddar.
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Real education has to draw out the best from the boys and girls to be educated.
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I suggest that, if India is to evolve along nonviolent lines, it will have to decentralize many things. Centralization cannot be sustained and defended without adequate force . . .Centralization as a system is inconsistent with non-violent structure of society.
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If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth, you must reduce yourself to a zero.
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If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed, but hate these things in yourself, not in another.