Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance.
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I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.
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The builders of the British Indian Empire have patiently built its four pillars-the European interests, the army, the Indian princes and the communal divisions.
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If everybody lives by the sweat of his brow, the earth will become a paradise.
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The nonviolent man automatically becomes a servant of God.
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Worship or prayer is not to be performed with the lips, but with the heart.
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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 path of Truth is as narrow as it is straight. Even so is that of ahimsa.
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It is degrading both for man and woman that woman should be called upon or induced to forsake the hearth and shoulder the rifle for the protection of that hearth.
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I do not believe that the spiritual law works on a field of its own. On the contrary, it expresses itself only through the ordinary activities of life. It thus affects the economic, the social and the political fields.
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There is no such thing as 'Gandhism', and I do not want to leave any sect after me.
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Without living Truth, God is nowhere.
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The villagers want bread-not butter-and disciplined work, some work that will supplement their agricultural avocations which do not go on for all the 12 months.
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Ahimsa and love are one and the same thing.
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Religion is no test of nationality, but a personal matter between man and his God.
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There are no good-byes, where ever you'll be, you'll be in my heart.
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Without an unreserved surrender to His grace, complete mastery over thoughts is impossible.
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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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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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Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power.
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Truth is God, and Truth overrides all our plans. The whole Truth is only embodied within the heart of Great Power-Truth.
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Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.
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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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It needs more than a heart of oak to shed all fear except the fear of God.