Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I cannot imagine anything nobler or more national than that for, say, one hour in the day we should all do the labor the poor must do, and thus identify ourselves with them and through them, with all mankind.
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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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My religion is a matter solely between my Maker and myself.
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I condemn, for all climes and for all times, secret murders and unfair methods even for a fair cause.
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There are unjust laws as there are unjust men.
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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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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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We cannot be speakers who do not listen. But neither can we be listeners who do not speak.
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In this instance of the fire-arms, the Asiatic has been most improperly bracketed with the native. The British Indian does not need any such restrictions as are imposed by the Bill on the natives regarding the carrying of fire-arms. The prominent race can remain so by preventing the native from arming himself. Is there a slightest vestige of justification for so preventing the British Indian?
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A plea for the spinning wheel is a plea for recognizing the dignity of labour.
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Belief in one God is the cornerstone of all religions.
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Those who believe religion and politics aren't connected don't understand either.
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A vow must lead one upwards, never downwards towards perdition.
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If Swaraj is to be had by peaceful methods, it will only be attained by attention to every little detail of national life.
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A nation that is unfit to fight cannot, from experience, prove the virtue of not fighting.
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Self-defense...is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation.
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Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.
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There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.
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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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Prayer presupposes faith. No prayer is in vain. Prayer is like any other action.
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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 satyagrahi is sometimes bound to use language which is capable of two meanings, provided both the meanings are obvious and necessary and there is no intention to deceive anyone.
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By using violence to subjugate one another we are using violence against our own souls.
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We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean.