Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Truth is one, paths are many.
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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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My satyagrahi spirit tells me that I may not retaliate.
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I find a solace a in the Bhagavadgita and Upanishads that I miss even in the Sermon on the Mount.
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I would rather have India reduced to a state of pauperism than have thousands of drunkards in our midst.
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If Hinduism teaches hatred of Islam or of non-Hindus, it is doomed to destruction.
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Faith is a function of the heart. It must be enforced by reason. The two are not antagonistic as some think. The more intense one's faith is, the more it whets one's reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.
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You cannot succeed in one department of life while cheating on another, life is an indivisible whole.
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In an atmosphere of ahimsa, one has no scope to put his ahimsa to the test. It can be tested only in the face of himsa.
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Keep my word positive. Words become my behaviors. Keep my behaviors positive. Behaviors become my habits. Keep my habits positive. Habits become my values. Keep my values positive. Values become my destiny.
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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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The principle of majority does not work when differences on fundamentals are involved.
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If what passed as nonviolence does not enable people to protect the honour of women, or if it does not enable women to protect their own honour, it is not nonviolence.
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Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world; but to change ourselves.
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As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
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One golden rule is to accept the interpretation honestly put on the pledge by the party administering it.
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A satyagrahi is dead to his body even before the enemy attempts to kill him.
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I must declare that it is better for India do discard violence altogether even for defending her borders.
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Self-suppression is often necessary in the interest of truth and nonviolence.
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The removal of untouchability is a question of the purification of Hinduism.
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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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Nanda broke down every barrier and won his way to freedom not by brag, not by bluster, but by the purest form of self-suffering.
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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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Whatever I do is out of love.