Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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That prince is acceptable to me who becomes a prince among his people's servants.
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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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Prayer is the only means of bringing about orderliness and peace and repose in our daily acts.
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Like the watch, the heart needs the winding of purity, or the Dweller ceases to speak.
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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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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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I am not fighting machinery as such, but the madness of thinking that machinery saves labor. Men save labor until thousands of them are without work and die of hunger on the streets. I want to secure employment and livelihood not only to part of the human race, but for all. I will not have the enrichment of a few at the expense of the community. At present the machine is helping a small minority to live on the exploitation of the masses. The motive force of this minority is not humanity or love of their kind, but greed and avarice.
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My love of nationalism is that my country may become free, and if need be, the whole of the country die, so that the human race may live.
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Though violence is not lawful, when it is offered in self-defense or for the defense of the defenseless, it is an act of bravery far better than cowardly submission. The latter befits neither man nor woman. Under violence, there are many stages and varieties of bravery. Every man must judge this for himself. No other person can or has the right.
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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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The cow is the purest type of sub-human life.
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The primary object of non-cooperation is nowhere stated to be paralysis of the Government. The primary object is self-purification.
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Spiritually, compulsory disarmament has made us unmanly, and the presence of an alien army of occupation, employed with deadly effect to crush in us the spirit of resistance, has made us think we cannot look after ourselves or put up a defense against foreign aggression, or even defend our homes and families.
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Was it that you wanted to pull my leg by transporting me to the frozen Himalayan heights of 'mahatmaship' and claiming for yourself absolution from having to follow my precepts?
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A satyagrahi is nothing if not instinctively law-abiding.
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Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path.
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We must widen the circle of our love till it embraces the whole village; the village in its turn must take into its fold the district, the district the province, and so on until the scope of our love becomes co-terminous with the world.
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Truth, purity, self-control, firmness, fearlessness, humility, unity, peace, and renunciation - these are the inherent qualities of a civil resister.
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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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Religion should be dearer than life itself.
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A satyagrahi is dead to his body even before the enemy attempts to kill him.
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If love wasn't the law of life, life would not have persisted in the midst of death.
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It is the law of love that rules mankind.
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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.