Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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What you feel and how you react to something is always up to you. There may be a "normal" or a common way to react to different things. But that's mostly just all it is.
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If I was to be their real teacher and guardian, I must touch their hearts, I must share their joys and sorrows, I must help them to solve the problems that faced them, and I must take along the right channel the surging aspirations of their youth.
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To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.
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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 one, paths are many.
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Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses.
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A devotee of Rama may be said to be the same as the steadfast one (sthitaprajnya) of the Gita.
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The fragrance of nonviolence was never sweeter than it was today amidst the stink of violence of the most cowardly type that was being displayed in the cities of India.
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An India free from exploitation from within and without must prosper with astonishing rapidity.
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A true man of piety will consider himself a sinner and, therefore, untouchable.
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Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life.
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It would conduce to national progress and save a great deal of time and trouble if we cultivated the habit of never supporting the resolutions either by speaking or voting for them if we had not either the intention or the ability to carry them out.
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Surely, conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows His creatures' hearts.
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My anekantavada is the result of the twin doctrines of satya and ahimsa.
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Violence is the weapon of weak, non-violence that of the strong.
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It is easy enough to say, I do not believe in God. For God permits all things to be said of Him with impunity. he looks at our acts. And any breach of His Law carries with it, not its vindictive, but it purifying, compelling punishment.
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Cow protection means protection of the weak, the helpless, the dumb and the deaf.
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Hinduism is like the Ganga, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga it is beneficent in its total effect. It takes a provincial form in every province, but the inner substance is retained everywhere.
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Undoubtedly, prayer requires a living faith in God. Successful satyagraha is inconceivable without that faith.
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Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.
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Nonviolent defence presupposes recklessness about one's life and property.
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Men of stainless character and self purification will easily inspire confidence and automatically purify the atmosphere around them.
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Do not worry about what others are doing! Each of us should turn the searchlight inward and purify his or her own heart as much as possible.
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The Bible is as much a book of religion with me as the Gita and the Koran.