Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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We, the English educated Indians, often unconsciously make the terrible mistake of thinking that the microscopic minority of the English-speaking Indians is the whole of India.
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It needs more than a heart of oak to shed all fear except the fear of God.
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It is a first class human tragedy that people of the earth who claim to believe in the message of Jesus, whom they describe as the Prince of Peace, show little of that belief in actual practice.
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I am not conscious of a single experience throughout my three months' stay in England and Europe that made me feel that after all East is East and West is West. On the contrary, I have been convinced more than ever that human nature is much the same, no matter under what clime it flourishes, and that if you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold affection returned to you.
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The only way by which you and I can wean orthodox Hindus from their bigotry is by patient argument and correct conduct.
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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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Education without courage is like a wax statue - beautiful to look at but bound to melt at the first touch of a hot stuff.
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Repression does for a true man or a nation what fire does for gold.
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Non-cooperation means refusal both to help the sinner in his sin and not to accept any help or gift from him till he has repented.
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Nirvana is the utter extinction of all that is base in us, all that is vicious in us. Nirvana is not like the black, dead peace of the grave, but the living peace, the living happiness of a soul which is conscious of itself and conscious of having found its own abode in the heart of the Eternal.
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Economic equality is the master-key to nonviolent independence.
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Let the content of Swaraj grow with the growth of national consciousness and aspirations.
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A true man of piety will consider himself a sinner and, therefore, untouchable.
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President means chief servant.
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If we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place.
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The Gita is not for those who have no faith.
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It would conduce to national progress and save a great deal of time and trouble if we cultivated the habit of never supporting the resolutions either by speaking or voting for them if we had not either the intention or the ability to carry them out.
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Untouchability, I hold, is a sin, if Bhagavadgita is one of our Divine Books.
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While everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates.... For I can see in the midst of death, life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.
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Without an unreserved surrender to His grace, complete mastery over thoughts is impossible.
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I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it . . .
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Languages proclaim that woman is half of man, and by parity of reasoning, man is half of woman.
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Marriage is not an act of services. It is a comfort man or woman seeks for himself or herself.
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The satyagrahi should not have any hatred in his heart against the opponent.