Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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It only confirms me in my belief that there is no Swaraj without a settlement with the Mussalmans.
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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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If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British.
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Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.
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Religion is the tie that binds one to one's Creator, and whilst the body perishes, as it has to, religion persists even after death.
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There are unjust laws as there are unjust men.
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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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Jail-going is only the beginning, not the end of satyagraha. The acme of satyagraha for us would be to lay down our lives for the defence of India's just cause.
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There is every reason for being cautious about founding new universities till India has digested Her newly acquired freedom.
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Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers.
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Satyagraha does not begin and end with civil disobedience.
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Hitler killed five million Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher's knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs. As it is, they succumbed anyway in their millions.
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There are subjects where reason cannot take us far and we have to accept things on faith. Faith then does not contradict reason but transcends it. Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason.
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Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing letters, etc.
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If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done.
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Love in the sense of ahimsa has only a limited number of votaries in the world.
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Self-defense...is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation.
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My creed of nonviolence does not favour the punishment of thieves and dacoits and even murderers.
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The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country's and ultimately that of the whole of mankind.
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Begin your day with prayer, and make it so soulful that it may remain with you until the evening.
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If you're going to be a bear, be a grizzly.
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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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Fight if you must on the path of righteousness and God will be with you.