Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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To find truth completely is to realize oneself and one's destiny, i.e. to become perfect.
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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.
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Cow-slaughter and man-slaughter are in my opinion two sides of the same coin.
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Freedom received though the efforts of others, however benevolent, cannot be retained when such effort is withdrawn.
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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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I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.
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Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used.
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God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth and He tries you through and through.
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It is better to resist oppression by violent means than to submit, but it is best of all to resist by nonviolent means.
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To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.
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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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In battling against untouchability, and in dedicating myself to that battle, I have no less an ambition than to see a full regeneration of humanity.
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You can't hurt me without my permission.
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Economic equality is the master-key to nonviolent independence.
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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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Hinduism is like the Ganga,, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga it is beneficent in its total effect. It takes a provincial form in every provinvce, but the inner substance is retained everywhere.
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Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence.
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I must declare that it is better for India do discard violence altogether even for defending her borders.
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No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred.
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Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise.
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You can judge a society by the way it treats it's animals.
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Self-restraint is the very keystone of the ethics of vow-taking.
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The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country's and ultimately that of the whole of mankind.
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Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses.