Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Swaraj will favour Hinduism no more than Islam, nor Islam more than Hinduism.
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For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of Englishmen.
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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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Labour, because it chose to remain unintelligent, either became subservient, or insolently believed in damaging the capitalists' goods and machinery or even in killing the capitalists.
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A satyagrahi exhausts all other means before he resorts to satyagraha.
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For a satyagrahi brigade only those are eligible who believe in ahimsa and satya.
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You can't hurt me without my permission.
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[I]t seems to me as clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime.
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Non-cooperation means refusal both to help the sinner in his sin and not to accept any help or gift from him till he has repented.
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Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for non-violence. Violence does not mean the emancipation from fear, but discovering the means of combating the cause of fear. Nonviolence, on the other hand, has no cause for fear. The votary of nonviolence has to cultivate the capacity for sacrifice of the highest type in order to be free from fear. He recks not if he should lose his land, his wealth, his life.
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Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law.
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Nowhere in the world would you find such skeletons of cows and bullocks as you do in our cow-worshipping India.
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The platform of services is as big as the world. It is never overcrowded.
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Of what avail is my love if it be only so long as I trust my friend?
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I suggest that we are thieves in a way. If I take anything that I do not need for my own immediate use, and keep it, I thieve it from somebody else. ... Nature produces enough for our wants from day to day, and if only every-body took enough for himself and nothing more, there would be no pauperism in this world, there would be no man dying of starvation in this world. But so long as we have got this inequality, so long we are thieving.
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My ahimsa is my own. I am not able to accept in its entirety the doctrine of non-killing of animals.
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Responsibility will mellow and sober the youth and prepare them, for the burden they must discharge.
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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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You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.
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God is that indefinable something which we all feel but which we do not know.
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The Charkha supplemented the agriculture of the villagers and gave it dignity.
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If Britain were honest, which I dispute, she would then embrace all nations on terms of equality.
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The pure love of one soul can offset the hatred of millions.
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A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience.