Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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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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The only force at the disposal of democracy is that of public opinion.
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The untouchability of Hinduism is probably worse than that of the modern imperialists.
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If you are left with only one piece of homespun,wear it with dignity.
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Men like me feel that untouchability is no integral part of Hinduism, it is an excrescence.
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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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Prayer is a sign of repentance, a desire to become better, purer.
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If untouchability is an integral part of Hinduism, the latter is a spent bullet.
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I love Christianity, Islam and many other faiths - through Hinduism.
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A general belief seems to prevail in the colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than the savages or natives of Africa. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir.
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Truth is one, paths are many.
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Religion is no test of nationality, but a personal matter between man and his God.
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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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Man is sent into the world to perform his duty even at the cost of his life.
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When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.
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Ahimsa and love are one and the same thing.
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Was it that you wanted to pull my leg by transporting me to the frozen Himalayan heights of 'mahatmaship' and claiming for yourself absolution from having to follow my precepts?
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I have not hesitated to call the system of Government under which we are labouring 'satanic' and I withdraw naught out of it.
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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.
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History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force.
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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 you do what you enjoy doing you'll never have to work hard.
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To my mind the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.
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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.