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Complete independence will be complete only to the extent of our approach in practice to truth and nonviolence.
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Truth and nonviolence are both the means and the end, and given the right type of men, the legislatures can be the means of achieving the concrete pursuit of truth and nonviolence.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I want for India complete independence in the full English sense of that English term.
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It is not possible to make a person or society non-violent by compulsion.
Mahatma Gandhi -
A worker's capital is inexhaustible, incapable of being stolen, and bound to pay him a generous dividend all the time.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I believe that just as everyone inherits a particular form so does he inherit the particular characteristics and qualities of his progenitors, and to make this admission is to conserve one's energy.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I cannot be subservient anywhere.
Mahatma Gandhi -
When the wheel was accepted as part of the national flag, it was surely implied that the spinning wheel would hum in every household.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Khaddar does not displace a single cottage industry.
Mahatma Gandhi -
An India free from exploitation from within and without must prosper with astonishing rapidity.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I believe in trusting. Trust begets trust. Suspicion is foetid and only stinks. He who trusts has never yet lost in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi -
My Gita tells me that evil can never result from a good action.
Mahatma Gandhi -
When a slave begins to take pride in his fetters and hugs them like precious ornaments, the triumph of the slave-owner is complete.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I can not give you the reference of Ram Chandar or Krishna, because they were not historical figures. I can not help it but to present to you the names of (Hazrat) Abu Bakar (RA) and (Hazrat) Umar Farooq (RA). They were leaders of a vast Empire, yet they lived a life of austerity.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Nothing in the Shastra, which is manifestly contrary to universal truths and morals, can stand.
Mahatma Gandhi -
In the characteristics of the perfected man of the Gita, I do not see any to correspond to physical warfare.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Begin with duties of a man and rights will follow as spring follows winter.
Mahatma Gandhi -
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.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification.
Mahatma Gandhi -
There is a power now slumbering within us, which is awakened would do to evil what light does to darkness.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.
Mahatma Gandhi -
A satyagrahi is nothing if not instinctively law-abiding.
Mahatma Gandhi -
No effort is complete without prayer - without definite recognition that the best human endeavor is of no effect if it has not God's blessing behind it.
Mahatma Gandhi