Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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In an atmosphere of ahimsa, one has no scope to put his ahimsa to the test. It can be tested only in the face of himsa.
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Unity, to be real, must stand the severest strain without breaking.
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Contraceptives are an insult to womanhood.
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To have a happy ending, choose a happy moment and call it 'the ending'. Honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune.
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Cow protection means protection of the weak, the helpless, the dumb and the deaf.
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To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman.
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I want India to come into her own and that state cannot be better defined by any single word than Swaraj.
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The Charkha in the hands of a poor widow brings a paltry price to her, in the hands of Jawaharlal; it is an instrument of India's freedom.
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I believe in the essential unity of all that lives. Therefore, I believe that if one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains, and that if one person falls, the whole world falls to that extent.
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Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.
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The British Government in India constitutes a struggle between modern civilization, which is the Kingdom of Satan, and the ancient civilization, which is the Kingdom of God.
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Begin with duties of a man and rights will follow as spring follows winter.
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Roving dogs do not indicate the civilisation or compassion of the society. They betray on the country the ignorance and lethargy of its members.
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I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.
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The sanyasa of the Gita will not tolerate complete cessation of activity.
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If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide.
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In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.
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You may think your actions are meaningless and that they won't help, but that is no excuse, you must still act.
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There is a power now slumbering within us, which is awakened would do to evil what light does to darkness.
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It is a tragedy that religion for us means, today, nothing more than restrictions on food and drink, nothing more than adherence to absence of superiority and inferiority.
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A country that is governed by its national army can never be morally free and, therefore, its so-called weakest member can never rise to his full moral height.
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The end of nonviolent 'war' is always an agreement, never dictation, much less humiliation of the opponent.
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The measure of a society can be how well its people treat its animals.
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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?