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Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger... . Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice.
Mahatma Gandhi -
You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I call myself a labourer because I take pride in calling myself a spinner, weaver, farmer and scavenger.
Mahatma Gandhi -
There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I have no weapon but nonviolence.
Mahatma Gandhi -
True art must be evidence of happiness, contentment and purity of its authors.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. There is nothing more potent than thought. Deed follows word and word follows thought. The word is the result of a mighty thought, and where the thought is mighty and pure the result is always mighty and pure.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Undoubtedly, prayer requires a living faith in God. Successful satyagraha is inconceivable without that faith.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The cottage industry of India had to perish in order that Lancashire might flourish.
Mahatma Gandhi -
My conception of freedom is no narrow conception. It is co-extensive with the freedom of man in all his majesty.
Mahatma Gandhi -
How can I even secretly harbour the thought that my neighbour's faith is inferior to mine?
Mahatma Gandhi -
He is no God who merely satisfies the intellect, if He ever does.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.
Mahatma Gandhi -
A nonviolent person's life is always at the disposal of him who would take it.
Mahatma Gandhi -
When you make yourself into zero, your power becomes invincible.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways.
Mahatma Gandhi -
That which impels man to do the right thing is God.
Mahatma Gandhi
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As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect.
Mahatma Gandhi -
There are as many different religions as there are individuals.
Mahatma Gandhi -
My swadeshi chiefly centers round the handspun khaddar and extends to everything that can be and is produced in India.
Mahatma Gandhi