Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.
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Truth is as hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.
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Equality of sexes does not mean equality of occupations.
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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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In the midst of death life persists.
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To see the universal and all – pervading Spirit of Truth face to face, one must be able to love the meanest of all creation as oneself.
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I have had the hardihood to say that Swaraj could not be granted even by God.
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We, the English educated Indians, often unconsciously make the terrible mistake of thinking that the microscopic minority of the English-speaking Indians is the whole of India.
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If untouchability is an integral part of Hinduism, the latter is a spent bullet.
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Active nonviolence of the brave puts to flight thieves, dacoits, murderers, and prepares an army of volunteers ready to sacrifice themselves in quelling riots, in extinguishing fires and feuds, and so on.
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Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts.
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Far more indispensable then food for the physical body is spiritual nourishment for the soul. One can do without food for a considerable time, but a man of the spirit cannot exist for a single second without spiritual nourishment.
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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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India is essentially a karmabhumi (land of duty) in contradistinction to bhogabhumi (land of enjoyment).
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But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep.
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If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British.
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There is no god higher than truth.
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The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.
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That prince is acceptable to me who becomes a prince among his people's servants.
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Prayer presupposes faith. No prayer is in vain. Prayer is like any other action.
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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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I once Experimented with marijuna, next thing I know I'm waking up with blood on my hands.......and not my own blood.
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Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.
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There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid.