Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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President means chief servant.
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Enter with me into the sufferings, not only of the people of India but of the whole world. Nonviolence is a more active and real fight against wickedness than retaliation whose very nature is to increase wickedness. It is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.
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I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection.
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A vow imparts stability, ballast and firmness to one's character.
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Think of the poorest person you know and see if your next act will be of any use to him.
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Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy.
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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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The Congress fights not with violent but with nonviolent means, however imperfect, however crude the nonviolence may be.
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If Britain were honest, which I dispute, she would then embrace all nations on terms of equality.
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Women are special custodians of all that is pure and religious in life.
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Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.
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A satyagrahi is nothing if not instinctively law-abiding.
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If I was to be their real teacher and guardian, I must touch their hearts, I must share their joys and sorrows, I must help them to solve the problems that faced them, and I must take along the right channel the surging aspirations of their youth.
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Since the propagation of nonviolence is the mission of my life, I must pursue it in all weathers.
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It is easy enough to say, I do not believe in God. For God permits all things to be said of Him with impunity. he looks at our acts. And any breach of His Law carries with it, not its vindictive, but it purifying, compelling punishment.
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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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Hinduism is a relentless pursuit of Truth. "Truth is God" and if today it has become moribund, inactive, irresponsive to growth, it is because we are fatigued; and as soon as the fatigue is over, Hinduism will burst upon the world with a brilliance perhaps unknown before.
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Those with the greatest awareness have the greatest nightmares.
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The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind.
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In fact, it is more correct to say that Truth is God, than to say that God is Truth.
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You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature.
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We burn the evil men do with their mortal remains. We treasure the memory of the good they do, and distance magnifies it.
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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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The sky may be overcast today with clouds, but a fervent prayer to God is enough to dispel them.