Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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A satyagrahi is nothing if not instinctively law-abiding.
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If you do what you enjoy doing you'll never have to work hard.
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Truthful movements spontaneously attract to themselves all manner of pure and disinterested help.
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History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance.
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I regard the constituent assembly as the substitute ofsatyagraha. It is constructive satyagraha.
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History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force.
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When a tiger changes his nature, Englishmen will change theirs.
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Men like me feel that untouchability is no integral part of Hinduism, it is an excrescence.
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Ahimsa is not a matter of mere dietetics: it transcends it.
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Every single act of one who would lead a life of purity should be in the nature of yajna.
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Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a free agent, and knows no distinction between virtue and vice, good and evil. Man, being a free agent, knows these distinctions, and when he follows his higher nature, shows himself far superior to the brute, but when he follows his baser nature can show himself lower than the brute.
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Truth is one, paths are many.
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He who runs may see that opium and such other intoxicants and narcotics stupefy a man's soul and reduce him to a level lower than that of beasts.
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I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world. I believe that they are all God- given and I believe that they were necessary for the people to whom these religions were revealed. And I believe that if only we could all of us read the scriptures of the different faiths from the standpoints of the followers of these faiths, we should find that they were at bottom all one and were all helpful to one another.
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If what passed as nonviolence does not enable people to protect the honour of women, or if it does not enable women to protect their own honour, it is not nonviolence.
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Truth, purity, self-control, firmness, fearlessness, humility, unity, peace, and renunciation - these are the inherent qualities of a civil resister.
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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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External fears cease of their own accord when once we have conquered these traitors within the camp.
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Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads, so long as we reach the same goal. Wherein is the cause for quarreling?
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It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves.
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President means chief servant.
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A rabbit that runs away from the bull-terrier is not particularly non-violent.
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You can't hurt me without my permission.
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It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honor, his religion, his soul and lay the foundation for the empire's fall or its regeneration.