Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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My own experience but confirms the opinion that the Musalman as a rule is a bully, and the Hindu as rule is a coward.
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It is not possible to make a person or society non-violent by compulsion.
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A pacifism which can see the cruelties only of occasional military warfare and is blind to the continuous cruelties of our social system is worthless.
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I have always held that social justice, even to the least the lowliest, is impossible of attainment by force.
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I recall having read, at the brothers' instance, Madame Blavatsky's Key to Theosophy. This book stimulated in me the desire to read books on Hinduism, and disabused me of the notion fostered by the missionaries that Hinduism was rife with superstition.
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I call myself a labourer because I take pride in calling myself a spinner, weaver, farmer and scavenger.
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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 consider Western Christianity in its practical working a negation of Christ's Christianity.
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Hinduism is not a codified religion.
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India will not be a helpless partner in her own exploitation and foreign domination.
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The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies.
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Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realise what a tremendous advantage she has over man.
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Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes.
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The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust.
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Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.
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Celibacy is a great help, inasmuch as it enables one to lead a life of full surrender to God.
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If India is not to declare spiritual bankruptcy, religious instruction of its youth must be held to be at least as necessary as secular instruction.
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My swadeshi chiefly centers round the handspun khaddar and extends to everything that can be and is produced in India.
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A truly nonviolent man would never live to tell the tale of atrocities. He would have laid down his life on the spot in non-violent resistance.
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Hindu-Muslim unity, khaddar and removal of untouchability are to me the foundation of Swaraj.
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National education to be truly national must reflect the national condition for the time being.
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I call the Lancashire trade immoral, because it was raised and is sustained on the ruin of millions of India's peasants.
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At the moment the British Common-wealth is a Commonwealth of White nation.
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Swaraj means even under dominion status a capacity to declare independence at will.